May 15, 2015

Weekly Update and Production Schedule

Let's start with a PSA. Did you know there are additional ways to help me reach my goal and they won't cost you any money? Log into Inkshares. You may already have credits. With credits, you can buy additional copies of my book for free! The contest ranks books on total pre-orders sold, so every order is incredibly important. If every person who pre-ordered used their credits I would be back in the top 5 right now!

Visit my project page (https://www.inkshares.com/projects/lost-generation) and share my project on Facebook, Twitter, or via E-mail. Every person you refer who buys a book will give you $15 credit. That's money you can use to buy more books!

Weekly Update

Hello, everyone! Why don't you go look at yourself in the mirror? It's alright. I will wait. Did you do it? What did you see? I can tell you what I saw, an amazing person who put their money on the line to help me realize a dream. I hope you feel excellent knowing that you could have done anything with that money, but instead you chose to help me out. You are great.

If you are one of the people who used their credits to buy additional books. Thank you so much. You have helped me reach ever closer to my goal.

I'll be honest with you, at the start of this week I felt quite down. Lost Generation crushed April, sitting pretty in the 3rd spot. Since then I have been knocked into 6th position and struggled to move back to the top five.

It is challenging to be so close to your goal, yet so far away, but thanks to some new additions and a generous infusion of credits by the Inkshares team, some ground was recovered.

Slowly the gap is closing and with your help the project will be a tremendous success. Keep spreading the word, sharing, reading, and using those credits if you have them.

Feedback

As I move forward, your feedback is more crucial than ever. Don't worry about hurting my feelings. Read the sample material and send honest feedback to joe.terzieva@gmail.com. Something you love? Something you hate? Let me know! I have dedicated myself to this project every night since it started, and I will take your critiques seriously. You may have already seen the revisions of chapters one and two. These represent my commitment to the quality of this work and a promise to continue this path until the amazing final product. Speaking of the final product, that takes us to the next section.

Production Schedule

This project began at the start of the year, and formal writing began in April. Now that I have an efficient process in place, I can lay out a realistic production schedule.

After significant consideration, I am happy to report, you will receive a new chapter of Lost Generation every week! Chapters four through eleven will appear on the Inkshares site. Once the campaign is complete, the remaining chapters will complete on the same schedule until the end of September. This schedule is based on the current summary document. I will add or remove weeks from the schedule if chapters are added or removed.

Wrap-Up

Thank you all for your support. Please continue to spread the word and follow along as the work develops.

A special thank you to the Inkshares writers who have supported me. I don't want to miss anyone, so will double check my supporters and send out a list in another update. I am honored to be one of you, and I couldn't ask to work with a nicer bunch of guys sharing a common interest. Regardless of the outcome of this contest. I am proud to have done it with you.