Sep 28, 2015

The end is nigh! We’ve almost made it to the finish of the Nerdist Contest. And the level of support this project has received is stunning, and it’s still ongoing. I so appreciate your support and your help bringing more people to this project. Earlier today, we cleared 600 pre-orders and now are sitting at 535 readers. I’m uncertain where that puts us on the leaderboard as, at the time of this post, the page has been stuck on results from earlier today. Regardless, we’ve made good ground today. The goal is to get to 600 readers by Wednesday night at midnight PDT. To do that, we need to average 25 readers a day. We’re almost 2/3 of the way to that today. I think it’s doable, but it depends on you.

Shelf concept image from sketch artist

To those following who haven’t pre-ordered, all 164 of you. I’m not sure if you’re just another author who is not sure you want to help someone else win or a bystander just watching because you weren’t sure the project would have a chance. The math for you is simple. If all 164 of you go pre-order today, not only would that send us almost to 700 readers for the contest, but it would push us to 778 copies ordered. In other words, enough to earn the e-book only contract. You all can make it happen regardless of the contest results; although, let’s not kid ourselves. 164 readers right at the end of this contest would be a massive boost. First place is, at last count 72 in front of me. Finishing first isn’t the goal, but man it would be nice.

As promised, I’ve uploaded new chapters to the PDF copy for you to read. I threw in a bonus: you have all 32 chapters to start the book which gets you to the end of Act 2. I also included an appendix: a portion of a transcript from Logwyn’s interview with Quentin. Enjoy!

Also, a message is in the process of being transmitted from Logwyn right now. I hope to have it ready to send out by Wednesday, but we shall see.