Thank you all so much for your fantastic support the past two weeks. You are amazing! We’ve slowly, slowly inched up in the standings and are now in third place by several pre-orders, but there’s still a week to go, and we can’t be complacent. Right now, it’s more important than ever to get those last minute pre-orders to ensure that I’m able to publish my book and provide everyone their copy. It would be so disappointing to work this hard only to lose out in the last moment and have to refund everyone’s money.

Please try to get ONE additional person, maybe your significant other, parent, or child, to pre-order a copy TODAY using their email and username. The scoring in the contest is based on the number of unique readers, not total sales. Every single sale we can bring in makes a huge difference, as the sales gap between 1st through 4th places in the contest is only about 20 pre-orders.

One more week of focus on this contest, and then I’ll get back to writing in earnest to polish the second draft of APEX and get it to the editors for a thorough review! 

Also, I want to make a shout out for @John Dennehy, author of Illegal. He achieved 750 pre-orders and was all set for getting his book published when there was a glitch, and Inkshares issued a refund to everyone! :( Now, it appears there’s some confusion about whether or not he’ll be able to get all of his pre-orders back. Please consider purchasing a copy of his excellent memoir to help him recover from this tragedy.

Thanks, Debbie