Hey all. As you may or may not have seen, Through Hell has officially run through its time here on Inkshares and, despite all your amazing efforts, did not meet the publishing goal. Before I say anything, I want to say a heartfelt thank you to you every single person that pre-ordered a copy, spread the word or, hell, even just looked at my page. I appreciate it more than you'll ever know. I also want to remind you that none of you should be charged a cent even if you pre-ordered since the book didn't meet the goal. If you do happen to see a charge from Inkshares related to my book for some reason, let me know and I'll try and work with Inkshares to figure it out, but this shouldn't happen.
Anyway, while this is a slight bummer, it also wasn't unexpected; I'm an unknown author putting up a draft of his first novel. It's no real surprise that 1000 people didn't bite on that. For me, this was more an exercise in putting my work out there, in making it something "real" and more than just a side project. Putting Through Hell on here and getting feedback from so many people really helped that happen, and that was easily the most important thing I could get from this experience. And rest assured, just because Through Hell isn't being published right at this moment, doesn't mean it never will be. I intend to work harder than ever on getting this book into your hands as soon as I'm able. Once I finish up my current round of edits, I will be exploring every option available to me to make sure that you are eventually able to read my work in its entirety. In fact, I recently finished the first draft of its sequel, so that hopefully gives you an idea of how seriously I'm taking this.
So once again, please just let me express my gratitude to you all: Thank you so, so much. I'll make sure to let everyone know when Through Hell is inevitably published.
So it's a little later than originally planned, but Chapter Four is officially up on the page! I hope you all enjoy it. This is where Clara's (and the others') journey really starts and we finally get see how these people interact with each other without the guiding hand of Satan to keep them together (how's that for a weird sentence?). Sorry it took longer than planned, but once again life intervened. Rest assured that I have been plugging away not only on Though Hell, but also it's sequel. What? Sequel? That's right! Not only is Through Hell finally closing in on its final edits, by my hands at least, but I'm very nearly finished writing the first draft of the second book. If having a sequel to read isn't good motivation to help me get Through Hell published, then I don't know what is!
In other exciting news, just last week I got to review a handful of rough thumbnails for potential covers. All of them were great, but I narrowed it down to two that will be getting larger, more detailed versions that I can't wait to see. As huge a part of my life that this book has been for the past year and half, seeing these glimpses of what Through Hell might one day look like on shelves really went a long way toward making this feel like a "real" book. There's only 32 days left in my Inkshares pitch time (hint hint), so the cover likely won't be done by the time it's up, but rest assured, the moment I have a final version, I will find a way to make sure everyone that wants to see it gets to.
Thanks for the patience and continued support and I hope Chapter Four is every bit as much for you to read as it was for me to write.
Hey all! Sorry for the long time between updates here, but sometimes real life gets in the way. It's been a crazy couple weeks for me and my persistent internet problems have not helped matters.
Anyway, I knew I needed to pop on here and let you all know that tomorrow is the end of the Nerdist Contest on here. I think it's safe to say that we won't be making it into that top 5, but that's A-ok! I wanted to thank everyone that supported, whether through following or pre-ordering, for helping me make it as far as I have. From the beginning, putting Through Hell on here was always more of a personal challenge to myself to actually get it out there and out of just being this story in my head and it has succeeded wonderfully at that. As a thank you, I plan to upload chapter 4 in the near future.
It's also worth noting that while the contest may end tomorrow, Through Hell will still be up for preorder for another month and half working toward the regular Inkshares goal. So please, contest or not, please continue to support me and the book in any way that you're capable of.
In the meantime though, make sure to take advantage of this last day of the contest to go check out some of the other authors that have entered. They're all amazingly talented people and I've personally preordered some of their books as well. Maybe one will strike your fancy and you'll be able to help someone other than just me reach their goals.
Thank you again so much and keeps your eyes peeled for Chapter 4, hopefully by the end of the week.
Hello Followers! Firstly, thanks so much for all of your support these past few weeks. I'm truly grateful, but I need to ask for more still. In the week since I uploaded Chapter 3, orders have slowed down a good bit. This isn't entirely unexpected, but I do need another push of orders. So if you know anyone who might be interested, please take the time to share this page with them or maybe even order them a copy. Every little bits helps. And remember, if we can get it up to 100 pre-orders, I'll add Chapter 4 up here as well. Thanks again for all the amazing support you've shown me.
Hey Colin! I grabbed a preorder. If you've got some spare referral credits, care to return the favor? Thanks and good luck with the crowdfunding! - Dave
Lovely Readers, I am here to inform that, as promised, Chapter 3 went up today to celebrate 50 orders! My heartiest thanks to all of you. Hopefully after reading Chapter 3, you'll be jones-ing for even more. Well, I've decided to give you more...if we can now make it 100. I'm currently 130 orders away from matching the amount of the lovely writer sitting in 5th place of the Nerdist contest, (currently Ricardo Henriquez and his book The Catcher's Trap- check it out - https://www.inkshares.com/projects/the-catcher-s-trap) so I need a big boost to get there. 100 seems like a nice, even place to start, so please don't stop sharing this with friends, maybe ordering some more copies for yourself if you're so inclined, and I will continue to share with you! Thank so much once again.
My dear followers, today I come with great news! We have officially surpassed 50 pre-orders! I can't thank you all enough for the overwhelming support I've seen in the 7 days since I listed the book on here. As my way of saying thanks, I will be, as promised, be posting the entirety of the third chapter later this week- it's the least I can do for you. This Nerdist contest is a tight race and I haven't made it close to even the top 10 yet, but with continued support like this, I'm sure we can get there in no time at all. Thank you all once again and keep your eyes out for chapter three!
Hey everyone! As of right now, you've helped Through Hell make it up to 39 pre-orders and I can hardly believe it! I'm now just a little under halfway to cracking into the top 10 as it currently stands.If you're getting this message, I doubt you have but, if you missed it, the 2nd chapter is now up on the page as well and I hope you enjoyed it. So how about we make a deal? If we can make it to at least 50 orders by next Thursday, 9/3, I'll put up chapter 3 that day, a little earlier than I planned. If that intrigues you at all, then please, continue to share or maybe, if you're feeling super generous, up your order and become one of my "Super Readers" and get your name in the back of the book. Honestly though, you're all already super readers in my heart
Hello again, kind folks. You all have been amazingly kind and generous to me, so I thought it was time to give something back. Some of you may have received e-mails about this, but I have just uploaded the entirety of chapter two of Through Hell! Please take a look at it if you have the time. Also, in case you weren't aware, it's possible to comment on my chapters as well as "excerpt" lines or paragraphs you particularly enjoy. Even better, I believe Inkshares will gift you $5 in credit the first time you excerpt something, so if you see something you like, have at it! Thank you all again and I hope you enjoy chapter two!
Hello everyone! I just wanted to give a huge thank you to everyone that has helped support. Through Hell so far. After only two days, people have committed to 35 copies of the book! That's unbelievable and I'm extremely moved by all your support. Moreover, as of this writing, that puts me at over halfway to reaching the tenth ranked spot in the Nerdist contest (The current 10th place holder has 63 pre-orders). I never imagined that I would make such progress so quickly and I thank you all for it. I hope you will all continue to share Through Hell and that we can eventually see it crack into that top ten and, fingers crossed, the top five. I plan to upload the entirety of chapter 2 sometime tomorrow, so make sure to keep your eyes peeled for that. Thank you all again.
Hey all. As you may or may not have seen, Through Hell has officially run through its time here on Inkshares and, despite all your amazing efforts, did not meet the publishing goal. Before I say anything, I want to say a heartfelt thank you to you every single person that pre-ordered a copy, spread the word or, hell, even just looked at my page. I appreciate it more than you'll ever know. I also want to remind you that none of you should be charged a cent even if you pre-ordered since the book didn't meet the goal. If you do happen to see a charge from Inkshares related to my book for some reason, let me know and I'll try and work with Inkshares to figure it out, but this shouldn't happen.
Anyway, while this is a slight bummer, it also wasn't unexpected; I'm an unknown author putting up a draft of his first novel. It's no real surprise that 1000 people didn't bite on that. For me, this was more an exercise in putting my work out there, in making it something "real" and more than just a side project. Putting Through Hell on here and getting feedback from so many people really helped that happen, and that was easily the most important thing I could get from this experience. And rest assured, just because Through Hell isn't being published right at this moment, doesn't mean it never will be. I intend to work harder than ever on getting this book into your hands as soon as I'm able. Once I finish up my current round of edits, I will be exploring every option available to me to make sure that you are eventually able to read my work in its entirety. In fact, I recently finished the first draft of its sequel, so that hopefully gives you an idea of how seriously I'm taking this.
So once again, please just let me express my gratitude to you all: Thank you so, so much. I'll make sure to let everyone know when Through Hell is inevitably published.
Sincerely,
Colin Andersen
Hey all,
So it's a little later than originally planned, but Chapter Four is officially up on the page! I hope you all enjoy it. This is where Clara's (and the others') journey really starts and we finally get see how these people interact with each other without the guiding hand of Satan to keep them together (how's that for a weird sentence?). Sorry it took longer than planned, but once again life intervened. Rest assured that I have been plugging away not only on Though Hell, but also it's sequel. What? Sequel? That's right! Not only is Through Hell finally closing in on its final edits, by my hands at least, but I'm very nearly finished writing the first draft of the second book. If having a sequel to read isn't good motivation to help me get Through Hell published, then I don't know what is!
In other exciting news, just last week I got to review a handful of rough thumbnails for potential covers. All of them were great, but I narrowed it down to two that will be getting larger, more detailed versions that I can't wait to see. As huge a part of my life that this book has been for the past year and half, seeing these glimpses of what Through Hell might one day look like on shelves really went a long way toward making this feel like a "real" book. There's only 32 days left in my Inkshares pitch time (hint hint), so the cover likely won't be done by the time it's up, but rest assured, the moment I have a final version, I will find a way to make sure everyone that wants to see it gets to.
Thanks for the patience and continued support and I hope Chapter Four is every bit as much for you to read as it was for me to write.
Hey all! Sorry for the long time between updates here, but sometimes real life gets in the way. It's been a crazy couple weeks for me and my persistent internet problems have not helped matters.
Anyway, I knew I needed to pop on here and let you all know that tomorrow is the end of the Nerdist Contest on here. I think it's safe to say that we won't be making it into that top 5, but that's A-ok! I wanted to thank everyone that supported, whether through following or pre-ordering, for helping me make it as far as I have. From the beginning, putting Through Hell on here was always more of a personal challenge to myself to actually get it out there and out of just being this story in my head and it has succeeded wonderfully at that. As a thank you, I plan to upload chapter 4 in the near future.
It's also worth noting that while the contest may end tomorrow, Through Hell will still be up for preorder for another month and half working toward the regular Inkshares goal. So please, contest or not, please continue to support me and the book in any way that you're capable of.
In the meantime though, make sure to take advantage of this last day of the contest to go check out some of the other authors that have entered. They're all amazingly talented people and I've personally preordered some of their books as well. Maybe one will strike your fancy and you'll be able to help someone other than just me reach their goals.
Thank you again so much and keeps your eyes peeled for Chapter 4, hopefully by the end of the week.
Hello Followers! Firstly, thanks so much for all of your support these past few weeks. I'm truly grateful, but I need to ask for more still. In the week since I uploaded Chapter 3, orders have slowed down a good bit. This isn't entirely unexpected, but I do need another push of orders. So if you know anyone who might be interested, please take the time to share this page with them or maybe even order them a copy. Every little bits helps. And remember, if we can get it up to 100 pre-orders, I'll add Chapter 4 up here as well. Thanks again for all the amazing support you've shown me.
Lovely Readers, I am here to inform that, as promised, Chapter 3 went up today to celebrate 50 orders! My heartiest thanks to all of you. Hopefully after reading Chapter 3, you'll be jones-ing for even more. Well, I've decided to give you more...if we can now make it 100. I'm currently 130 orders away from matching the amount of the lovely writer sitting in 5th place of the Nerdist contest, (currently Ricardo Henriquez and his book The Catcher's Trap- check it out - https://www.inkshares.com/projects/the-catcher-s-trap) so I need a big boost to get there. 100 seems like a nice, even place to start, so please don't stop sharing this with friends, maybe ordering some more copies for yourself if you're so inclined, and I will continue to share with you! Thank so much once again.
My dear followers, today I come with great news! We have officially surpassed 50 pre-orders! I can't thank you all enough for the overwhelming support I've seen in the 7 days since I listed the book on here. As my way of saying thanks, I will be, as promised, be posting the entirety of the third chapter later this week- it's the least I can do for you. This Nerdist contest is a tight race and I haven't made it close to even the top 10 yet, but with continued support like this, I'm sure we can get there in no time at all. Thank you all once again and keep your eyes out for chapter three!
Hey everyone! As of right now, you've helped Through Hell make it up to 39 pre-orders and I can hardly believe it! I'm now just a little under halfway to cracking into the top 10 as it currently stands.If you're getting this message, I doubt you have but, if you missed it, the 2nd chapter is now up on the page as well and I hope you enjoyed it. So how about we make a deal? If we can make it to at least 50 orders by next Thursday, 9/3, I'll put up chapter 3 that day, a little earlier than I planned. If that intrigues you at all, then please, continue to share or maybe, if you're feeling super generous, up your order and become one of my "Super Readers" and get your name in the back of the book. Honestly though, you're all already super readers in my heart
Hello again, kind folks. You all have been amazingly kind and generous to me, so I thought it was time to give something back. Some of you may have received e-mails about this, but I have just uploaded the entirety of chapter two of Through Hell! Please take a look at it if you have the time. Also, in case you weren't aware, it's possible to comment on my chapters as well as "excerpt" lines or paragraphs you particularly enjoy. Even better, I believe Inkshares will gift you $5 in credit the first time you excerpt something, so if you see something you like, have at it! Thank you all again and I hope you enjoy chapter two!
Hello everyone! I just wanted to give a huge thank you to everyone that has helped support. Through Hell so far. After only two days, people have committed to 35 copies of the book! That's unbelievable and I'm extremely moved by all your support. Moreover, as of this writing, that puts me at over halfway to reaching the tenth ranked spot in the Nerdist contest (The current 10th place holder has 63 pre-orders). I never imagined that I would make such progress so quickly and I thank you all for it. I hope you will all continue to share Through Hell and that we can eventually see it crack into that top ten and, fingers crossed, the top five. I plan to upload the entirety of chapter 2 sometime tomorrow, so make sure to keep your eyes peeled for that. Thank you all again.