I want to thank all of you for your faith in Children of the Teller. I want you to know how much your support means to me.
I have decided to cancel this campaign for the time being. I am not currently able to put in the time and effort that is needed to run a successful Inkshares campaign, let along win an Inkshares/Geek & Sundry contest.You should see a refund from Inkshares soon.
If you haven’t already, consider purchasing my first novel, Lucky. There are only 16 days remaining in that campaign and it is running 425 orders short of our goal. If you order a copy and then get five other people to order, that will make a big dent in the remaining numbers.
While I have your attention, please note that Sara Polk’s amazing novel The Delicate Art of Soulrippingis currently #2 in the Geek & Sundry Fantasy contest! A few notes about this novel that you need to know:
I witnessed the creation of this novel first hand during National Novel Writing Month 2014 (the same year I wrote the sequel to Lucky, the forthcoming Fortune and Glory).
Many donuts died an honorable death to bring The Delicate Art of Soulripping to life.
I don’t think I have ever been so excited to see a novel get to publication.
If there are any issues with your refunds, please let me know (a direct message on Inkshares will do) and I’ll do what I can to help you get it straightened out.
Children of the Teller has received some positive feedback early on in the Inkshares/Geek & Sundry Fantasy contest. Despite this, our sales are off to a slow start. I have devised a brilliant plan to help ramp up this effort and get it off to a better start - RAFFLES! Everyone loves a good raffle, right?
Allow me to elaborate - Children of the Teller is still in production, meaning that I have a lot of creative freedom with names going forward. So here’s what we’ll do - as sales reach each goal, I will (randomly) choose one person to name A Thing within the story.
At 20 orders, a fortunate soul gets to name a town to be featured in the story.
At 50 orders, another fortunate soul gets to name a horse (it’s a fantasy story after all - the horses are always named).
At 100 orders, a winning name will get to name a sword.
At 150 orders, a lucky personage of high standing shall bestow a moniker upon a character.
AND AT 250 ORDERS, a person of incredibly blessed stars will be asked to create a minor character to boost the plot at the opportune moment.
At 500 orders...ooh, you’d love to know that, wouldn’t you? You’ll just have to stay tuned for that momentous announcement.
Of course I reserve the right to tell you your name is a dumb one and if you name anything in the spirit of "Boaty McBoatface" I’ll simply ignore it and move on to the next person in line. Don’t make me do that, please?
So if you want the opportunity to name things, you should definitely share this information with all of your family and friends and random strangers that fix your coffee at Starbucks this afternoon.
I want to thank you all for your support and belief in this project. Good news today, I am beginning to sell preorders as part of the Inkshares/Geek & Sundry Fantasy contest. The title of the novel has shift and it is now called Children of the Teller. I hope you will continue to support and follow this novel over the next several weeks. Stay tuned for updates as I have some schemes up my sleeve to make this contest more exciting!
Big, BIG news today! We got a funding extension for Lucky, which means we have two more months to reach our goal of 750 copies ordered!
What does it mean if we get 750 copies? This:
full editing
design
printing
distribution to booksellers like Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and numerous independent book stores around the country
marketing
TV and movie tie in rights
This is what I have been dreaming about and working towards since I was a teenager and first started writing stories. This is the dream that you are helping to bring to life with your support and your purchases. And this is the dream that we got an extension on making a reality.
If you haven’t yet purchased a copy, please consider doing so. If you haven’t shared this novel with your friends and family and coworkers and the deli lady who makes your sandwiches, please do so as soon as you can. To make the goal in time, we need to sell about 8 copies a day between now and the first of July. Let’s make this a reality and put a new book on the bookshelves!
Today is the day that funding for Lucky ends. This is your last chance to order a copy and boost our numbers towards the fully funded mark of 750. We are depressingly far behind that number right now, so unless all of you have 50 friends who will also buy a copy of the book before midnight, we’re not going to make it.
I have applied for a funding extension from the Inkshares Overlords in hopes of being able to meet the 750 goal, but as of the sending of this update I have not received a reply, either positive or negative. I am hoping for a positive outcome, but at this point it’s just a hope.
I’d like to add that I have gathered many valuable insights from this funding journey with Inkshares: I feel that storytelling could be considered my "calling" in life. Even though I’m primarily focused on finishing and publishing this novel, I have a bunch of other stories in the back of my head clamoring to be let out. It’s exciting beyond belief and I look forward to being able to share these stories with you in the future.
Again, thank you all for your undying and unwavering support. Stay tuned for more updates as we continue into the publishing process.
Allegra, in all her still-baking-in-my-mind-oven glory, has gained such an enthusiastic following. I want to thank each and every one of you for believing in this project and being willing to support it. I am continuing to make notes and put together ideas for this novel in preparation for November 2016. National Novel Writing Month is practically the highlight of my year and I look forward to it being extra productive and exciting this time around!
In other news (and to occupy your eyes in the meantime), my first Required Viewing blog post is live and covers not only two of my favorite movies, but also briefly discusses the difference between science fiction and science fantasy. Check it out now at: https://rhwebster.wordpress.com/2016/04/29/required-viewing-1-star-wars-and-the-martian/
If you haven’t already done so, please check out my currently funding project Lucky. Lucky needs all the helps she can get to be fully funded and ready to go! The ideal would be to have her funded and published before November 1 so I can write the first draft of Allegra in November and then spend December 2016 and January 2017 editing the sequel to Lucky, a novel currently known as Fortune and Glory. However, none of this will happen without your support and pre-orders! If you’ve got any questions, feel free to tweet them to me @RH_Webster on Twitter, or message me on my author Facebook page: www.facebook.com/RHWebster.ScienceFiction.
Thank you so much for supporting my ideas for Allegra! I am continuing to gather ideas, plot bunnies and interesting tidbits to put into manuscript form come November.
In other news, I now have my second blog post live and online. Check out my brief discussion of what science fiction is here: https://rhwebster.wordpress.com/2016/04/19/what-is-science-fiction/
As always, you can find me online and send me any questions/comments you might have!
I’ve uploaded a small bit for Allegra. I had a fit of creativity this afternoon after walking my dogs and I had to write it out before I could finish editing my other novel.
I will be updating this idea periodically, but will mostly be focusing on Lucky for the next several months. Come November 2016, though...all bets are off and Allegra will become a reality.
Dear Readers,
I want to thank all of you for your faith in Children of the Teller. I want you to know how much your support means to me.
I have decided to cancel this campaign for the time being. I am not currently able to put in the time and effort that is needed to run a successful Inkshares campaign, let along win an Inkshares/Geek & Sundry contest.You should see a refund from Inkshares soon.
If you haven’t already, consider purchasing my first novel, Lucky. There are only 16 days remaining in that campaign and it is running 425 orders short of our goal. If you order a copy and then get five other people to order, that will make a big dent in the remaining numbers.
While I have your attention, please note that Sara Polk’s amazing novel The Delicate Art of Soulripping is currently #2 in the Geek & Sundry Fantasy contest! A few notes about this novel that you need to know:
If there are any issues with your refunds, please let me know (a direct message on Inkshares will do) and I’ll do what I can to help you get it straightened out.
As always...thank you.
- Webster
HARK! There is news!
Children of the Teller has received some positive feedback early on in the Inkshares/Geek & Sundry Fantasy contest. Despite this, our sales are off to a slow start. I have devised a brilliant plan to help ramp up this effort and get it off to a better start - RAFFLES! Everyone loves a good raffle, right?
Allow me to elaborate - Children of the Teller is still in production, meaning that I have a lot of creative freedom with names going forward. So here’s what we’ll do - as sales reach each goal, I will (randomly) choose one person to name A Thing within the story.
Of course I reserve the right to tell you your name is a dumb one and if you name anything in the spirit of "Boaty McBoatface" I’ll simply ignore it and move on to the next person in line. Don’t make me do that, please?
So if you want the opportunity to name things, you should definitely share this information with all of your family and friends and random strangers that fix your coffee at Starbucks this afternoon.
Happy reading!
- Webster
Hi, Readers of Allegra,
I want to thank you all for your support and belief in this project. Good news today, I am beginning to sell preorders as part of the Inkshares/Geek & Sundry Fantasy contest. The title of the novel has shift and it is now called Children of the Teller. I hope you will continue to support and follow this novel over the next several weeks. Stay tuned for updates as I have some schemes up my sleeve to make this contest more exciting!
Happy reading!
- Webster
Readers,
Readers,
THIS IS IT. TODAY IS THE LAST DAY.
Today is the day that funding for Lucky ends. This is your last chance to order a copy and boost our numbers towards the fully funded mark of 750. We are depressingly far behind that number right now, so unless all of you have 50 friends who will also buy a copy of the book before midnight, we’re not going to make it.
I have applied for a funding extension from the Inkshares Overlords in hopes of being able to meet the 750 goal, but as of the sending of this update I have not received a reply, either positive or negative. I am hoping for a positive outcome, but at this point it’s just a hope.
I’d like to add that I have gathered many valuable insights from this funding journey with Inkshares: I feel that storytelling could be considered my "calling" in life. Even though I’m primarily focused on finishing and publishing this novel, I have a bunch of other stories in the back of my head clamoring to be let out. It’s exciting beyond belief and I look forward to being able to share these stories with you in the future.
Again, thank you all for your undying and unwavering support. Stay tuned for more updates as we continue into the publishing process.
- Webster
Hello, Readers!
Allegra, in all her still-baking-in-my-mind-oven glory, has gained such an enthusiastic following. I want to thank each and every one of you for believing in this project and being willing to support it. I am continuing to make notes and put together ideas for this novel in preparation for November 2016. National Novel Writing Month is practically the highlight of my year and I look forward to it being extra productive and exciting this time around!
In other news (and to occupy your eyes in the meantime), my first Required Viewing blog post is live and covers not only two of my favorite movies, but also briefly discusses the difference between science fiction and science fantasy. Check it out now at: https://rhwebster.wordpress.com/2016/04/29/required-viewing-1-star-wars-and-the-martian/
If you haven’t already done so, please check out my currently funding project Lucky. Lucky needs all the helps she can get to be fully funded and ready to go! The ideal would be to have her funded and published before November 1 so I can write the first draft of Allegra in November and then spend December 2016 and January 2017 editing the sequel to Lucky, a novel currently known as Fortune and Glory. However, none of this will happen without your support and pre-orders! If you’ve got any questions, feel free to tweet them to me @RH_Webster on Twitter, or message me on my author Facebook page: www.facebook.com/RHWebster.ScienceFiction.
Readers,
Dear Readers,