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Soft Release

Herringwood Messiah is out now! Buy it here. For my Dutch “Helenists”: buy it here. A lot of you chose to buy the first book directly from me, and I appreciate that. That way, I get the biggest cut. But it’s not viable strategy in the long term, so while I will sell direct again …

Free Shit!

Book number two, now known as Herringwood Messiah, is in the last leg of its journey. I’m now at the point where I have to leave everything to mega corporations who really don’t give a shit and just wanna make a buck off my work. Joke’s on them, I guess.I’ve got to wait for proof …

Until The Throwing Up Starts

It’s about time for an update, isn’t it?Those of you I talk to regularly are vaguely aware of what’s going on with my writing “career,” but that one person in England who accidentally bought a book might still be curious. So this is for you, one person in England! I was actually quite close to …

She Knows Music

Yeah, hey. How y’all doing? I’m fine, book’s fine, the second book is almost fine and getting there. Everything’s peachy. I guess you were expecting more talk about writing, but there’s really only so much that can be said about writing a book. I take a bunch of words, I stick them in a pleasing …

Trophy Unlocked

About a year ago, give or take a few days, my book came out. Or rather, I put it out myself and then yelled at everybody within earshot it was available. And a lot of you listened! Some bought the book because they needed a reliable door stopper, others because I emotionally blackmailed them, and …

The Bakkerbaard Method

Now available! The Bakkerbaard-method for learning Dutch! Easy! Quick! Cheap! The key to learning is to make it entertaining. That’s why you remember more Star Wars quotes than maths. To that end, I have compiled an educational package that focuses on entertaining you, instead of beating dry theory into your skull.With the Bakkerbaard-method, you can …

Unclean!

Guess who’s got the covid! Yeah, my number was up, apparently.Strange how you never hear anyone about how it turned the lower half of their face into Freddy Krueger. But hey, at least I still have my sense of taste.Anyway, it’s not all bad news. Unless you’re one of the coworkers that has to cover …

God Of T-Shirts

You spoke, and like the benevolent god I like to believe I am, I have listened.You wanted the URLs gone, I have risked RSI to make them disappear. All shirts are now available without a bakkerbaard.nl anywhere on them, except for the license plate shirts. That’s the logo. It comes with a URL. Deal with …

No Promo For You!

Learn something new every day. Turns out people don’t want a website on their clothes, no matter how subtle it is. Eh, to be honest, it wasn’t subtle.So, I keep hearing that people might be convinced to buy a shirt, but choose not to because I’ve slapped a URL on each and every one of them. …

It Might Get Loud

Nope, sorry. This has nothing to do with the music project I talked about in the previous post. Just forget about that. Pretend I never said anything. Don’t make me wave my Jedi-hand, goddammit. I will do it. You don’t wanna get Jedi-pimp slapped. I’m not that good yet and I might erase the names …