Sep 17, 2015

Broke the 100-copy barrier earlier today! Right now, I'm at a decent pace to make the long-term goal of 1,000 copies(10% of the way there with 88% of the campaign remaining). Thank you so much for your support.

As far as the contest is concerned, I still need all the help I can get; I've got 65 readers which puts me only 17 shy of 20th place as of this writing. Can we win? Maybe. If I could get a big push somewhere but, even with little nudges, if I could make the top 20 by the end, after starting three-weeks late ... I'd be beside myself.

Please keep your recommendations coming. Please, to crib from A.C. Weston (support her if you haven't already!), tell your mailman (or -woman)! Tell everyone that they can get a hard-copy at either $5 or $0, an absolute steal, either way. Hell, even $9.99 is a bargain!

I'm working on revising "Chapter 5: The Raid" and hope to post it either tonight or tomorrow evening.

In my revisions, I had the realization that I never came up with either a corren batch- or given-name for my protagonist, A'arilon Ray.  His present name is the corren word for "forsaken" and a human forename given to him after he defected from the Confederation military. Want to help me come up with his original name?

The correns I've named have batch- and fore-names with a lot of vowels, lots of "I" and "A" sounds: Alesh, Inishi'i, Irva'a, Derotevia, Asharan, Antal, Lutan. There's a Ji'ilaad (Star Trek fans will probably recognize this as an homage to the TNG episode "Darmok"). So, I'd like to keep it thematically similar.

Not to reveal too much of Ray's backstory, but he's the only one of his batch. I'm thinking his name could be a close cognate of "one" (in any language) but in the non-Anglo style of the other names.

Winner gets an acknowledgement, should we go to press! Please keep pushing for Disintegration!