Sep 29, 2022

Dear Supporters and Readers of Wild Conviction,

As you know, I submitted revisions to the Inkshares Editorial Team late in March of this year. I have been, as I know many of you have been, eagerly awaiting an update on the publishing timeline. 

Yesterday I received an update from the Editorial Team, but it was not the update I was anticipating. The Inkshares Editorial Team has decided not to publish Wild Conviction. Their email stated the reason as: “While we understand the story’s thematic relevance in today’s America, our feeling is that there remains a significant gulf still between the story you wish to write and the story that we believe will find a large enough audience in today’s publishing climate.”

I respect their decision and reason. And I am thankful for the time I have spent as an aspiring Inkshares author. 

I have met so many great authors with Inkshares, and I have communicated with amazing, wonderful people—you, the readers and supporters of Wild Conviction—in the process of the pre-order campaign and the 2020 All-Genre Manuscript contest. 

I am grateful to Inkshares for these opportunities to build community.

Wild Conviction is still the recipient of these honors:

• Inkshares Staff Syndicate Pick, July 2020
• Inkshares Break the Bechdel with Strong Female Characters Syndicate Pick, October 2020
• Inkshares 2020 All-Genre Manuscript Contest 3rd Place Winner, announced February 28, 2021

Thank you, readers and supporters of Wild Conviction. You made its winning of the 2020 All-Genre Manuscript Content happen! 

As well, so many of you worked hard and spent much of your time, as I did, to reach out to your friends and family to get the pre-orders with Inkshares, of which there are 276! Your dedication, time, energy, engagement and pre-orders to help me succeed as a published novelist is the loveliest honor I know. I am so grateful.

Moving forward:

• Those who have pre-ordered will be receiving a refund from Inkshares. 
  
  
• I will begin work immediately to independently publish Wild Conviction.
   
  
• From all of your support and your questions about when you might get to read this story, I know you believe in this novel, as I do, so...
  
  
• I hope that you will want to, once again, order Wild Conviction—this time by working directly with me—and that you will be reading it soon!
  

You all have been fabulous during the pre-order campaign, the contest, and awaiting publication news with me. What a great ride it has been, and the ride continues!

If you do not already subscribe to my newsletter, I hope that you will subscribe now, so that I can continue to be in contact with you about the new progress to publication for Wild Conviction. You can subscribe at the bottom of any page of my website: MaryDezember.com

Onward and upward.
In gratitude, 
Mary & Twilight