Sep 19, 2016

Quick milestone update: We’ve crossed the 50% to Quill marker, that means we’re over halfway to guaranteed publication! Since the campaign really only started in earnest in September, this is not too shabby.

So as promised, I have uploaded new chapters upon reader request. Six new chapters all told. A quick little tidbit about this: Kingdom of Dreams has been four years (parts of it much longer than that) in the making. The manuscript has seen its share of professional editors, agent feedback, conferences, reading groups, and general friend critiques (and too many weeping and moaning sessions) during that time. It also finished as a finalist in a national first chapter contest--and it wasn’t even the current prologue, that one’s being used for another book!-and also placed as a finalist in a debut novel writing contest. So to reiterate: this project took quite a lot of maturing to reach where it is today and nearly all of the material is written. And I still think it could be improved by leaps and bounds. Like Oscar Wilde once said: "Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned." 

• New goals: along with the new original art and goofy poetry giveaway at 100 backers, I’ll also release a new chapter or two. Or I may just start pulling random bits from the book as what’s the point of purchasing if you just read the whole thing online? Let me know your thoughts and thanks so much for giving us a real shot at publication. 

Let’s keep it going!

Best Wishes,

Kevin