Good morning Sleepyheads!

Some time in the past day or night, we broke 100! 

I hope you guys are ready for the weekend, I know I am! This week has been crazy, between getting stuff ready for the guest blog post and being interviewed for the Examiner.com, I’m going to sleeping the long weekend away. Oh, wait, I have a five year old, nevermind. 

We’re at 97 orders and still above the line! I’m really curious about the person that apparently pre-ordered from the middle of the ocean, do you need help? Should we send someone? I’ll send some people with the book, hang in there. 

Support for this has been amazing and I can’t thank you guys enough. We’re going to make this happen. 

Lastly, The Sleeping Man now has a website! www.TheSleepingMan.com I’m going to start doing some of the world building background stuff to enhance the online reading experience of The Sleeping Man, and as you guys are harassing people on the street (yes) it’s easy for them to find and links are there for Inkshares, etc.

Thanks again, enjoy the weekend and we definitely have enough readers to get publish so pre-order, refer, and order again! Thanks!

Sweet Dreams, 

Stephen Carignan

Well, I keep telling myself not to bother people, but another huge thing has happened...

I just finished up an interview with Alicia Smoke at Examiner.com! I’m going to be featured in an article on the website! As soon as I have the link I will let you know, so be on the look out for that. 

Right now we are 6 days ahead of the projection at 84 orders! That means in 8 days I’ve had 84 orders, and I’m like: So many people have ordered more than one copy, Billy, Jason, Johnathan, Joseph, Joseph again, and Leah! In the guest blog post http://apotheosisstudios.com/blog/2016/5/23/the-sleeping-man-guest-post-by-stephen-carigan I’ve used some of your names in supplemental history of the world. 

Thank you in advance and let’s keep this up! Keep sharing, keep recommending, and keep cornering people in the street and several implying something bad will happen to people if they don’t order, you know, the legally gray area! Just kidding, mostly.

Sweet dreams,

Stephen Carignan

The Sleeping Man -- guest post by Stephen Carigan, an Inkshares hopeful whose world enchants, enlivens, and dares us to dream.

"Everyone dreams, we just perfected it."

Another double update because guess the F what? I finally learned how to fold a fitted sheet, you have to group the corner inside out then make a right angle.

Oh, and I also got featured as part of the blog I told you about! http://apotheosisstudios.com/blog/2016/5/23/the-sleeping-man-guest-post-by-stephen-carignan

Woohoo!

Good morning Sleepyheads! (Need something better for that)

When looking at the graph of the ideal rate of funding versus the actual rate of funding, we are ahead of the curve, let’s keep it that way! In one week we have had 65 orders, which is so exciting it makes me overuse exclamation points! I am continuing to bother everyone I see about pre-ordering multiple copies and there’s been a lot of support.

Thank you to everyone who has ordered so far, a huge thank you to the people buying more than one copy: Leah, Jason, Joe, and Billy. I am going to work your names into the supplemental history of The Sleeping Man’s world in the form of historical quotes, characters, etc.

Let’s keep it up, and get this published. At the rate we’re going, it’s a matter of time.

Sweet Dreams,

Stephen 

I didn’t think I would have a reader update the day after launch, and I didn’t think I would have another one so soon. The Sleeping Man already has 45 orders which is just insane. Who knew that by spending every day on Inkshares reviewing over 200 books, pre-ordering when the budget allows, and being supportive meant support would be reciprocated? Weird. I’m looking to make another Inkshares success story and we are on our way. Alright, enough, here’s the news.

Jamison Stone asked me to put together a guest post for http://apotheosisstudios.com and that will help get more pre-orders! You know Jamison, he wrote Rune of the Apprentice, the one that has 1,277 copies ordered? Anyway, I’m really excited to have that opportunity so a big thank you to him.

I mentioned this on the homepage for the book, but I’m happy to announce a partnership with the Children’s Literary Initiative, www.cli.org, where half of the profits of the pre-order campaign will be donated. I remember failing first and second grade because I was unable to read and it was my mother reading Stuart Little over and over under the words made sense. From there Redwall, A Wrinkle in Time, etc.

There are a couple things in the works, but I can’t mention them just yet because the details are being finalized. Thank you to everyone who ordered so far, it means the world. If you haven’t ordered yet, I would super appreciate it if you did.

Sweet Dreams,

Stephen

P.S. Don’t forget if you ordered on the first campaign, that order does not carry over, so please take the refund you got and reinvest in The Sleeping Man.