Thanks to you, it’s a BOOK!

I woke up this morning to the fantastic news that Pilot X smashed through the 750 preorder goal we needed to get fully published by Inkshares. That means this is a real book now with a real editing process about to start and real book marketing et cetera.

I know I’ve said this a lot but I cannot thank you enough. 

Pilot X thanks you too. He really has come a long way since we mistakenly thought he was a crashed airline pilot in the 1990s. Wow is he more than that. He’s not even human. And I can’t wait for all of you to get to know him and his world better. There’s a planet of monks who discover the Dimensional War, a small hut with three Pilot Xs working in it, and of course the Pineapple Planet. 

But all of that will come soon enough. For now you’ve made my year!!

Y’all rock.

Tom "Not even out of bed yet" Merritt

SO CLOSE!

Order number 700 was just made meaning we’re only 50 preorders away from hitting the full publishing goal.

Dammit. @iamsteadman just ordered one as I was writing this.

Meaning we’re only 49 pre-orders away from hitting the publishing goal. (Thanks Mark!! Happy Eurovision!)

As a huge thank you for being in before the end here’s a little snippet from the book I won’t be putting up on the general page.

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!

LESSONS

“It’s so easy to teach you since I always know what you learned exactly four years before,” the Secretary had crowed. He instructed each version of Ambassador X in order each day so he would move from least experienced to most experienced.

The lessons usually came during physical labor.

Ambassador X would be digging up dirt to cart over for the building’s walls. The Secretary would come up and start drilling him.

“What are the four major types of Sensaurians?”

“Overmind, Command, Soldier, Worker.”

What is the name of the Progon homeworld?”

“Tiel”

What are the Sensaurian eating habits.

“We do not know as they refuse to dine in diplomatic situations.”

“Should you ever offer Progons food?”

“It is not necessary but they appreciate the courtesy. Only offer once as they see the insistence as an insult to their machine nature.”

“What are the Sensaurian wheeled containers properly called?”

“Buckets. They really are buckets even in translation. Hilarious.”

“Focus. What is unique about Progon evolution?”

“They are non-corporeal and had the lowest probability of reaching sentience of any known sentient species.”

And on and on, day after day, until the day before Ambassador X’s original arrival. 

500 preorders! We’re 2/3 of the way there!

THANK YOU!

Getting this book fully for-real published with in-store promotions and everything would be a killer dream come true for me. And I thank each and every one of you for having faith in this book!

I hope you’re enjoying the sample chapters. If you haven’t checked them out please do. They’re non-spoilery to the main events of the book but give you key insights to the story.

I can’t wait for all of you to read the whole thing too. Pilot X was created by me in the 1990s for a parody news article on subbrilliant.com. He has grown quite a bit since then when he was a crashed pilot of a mystery aircraft in Colorado. He is no longer a crashed pilot of a mystery aircraft in Colorado.

He is so much more. And he’s soon to be real character in a real published novel thanks to you.

SO WHAT NOW?

We need 250 more preorders over the next 45 days to make this happen.

That means, if I have done my math correctly, that each of you needs to convince just half a person to preorder Pilot X. Are you willing to do that?

Come on, its just half a person? They won’t even see you coming! If you approach fro the half without eyes.

Anyway PLEASE spread the word and PLEASE know you’ve made my day every time I get that email saying you pre-ordered.

You’re the best.

Cheers,

Tom

Halfway There. THANK YOU!

So we just hit the halfway mark on the way to full publishing of Pilot X. Cannot thank you enough. It’s incredibly humbling to see not only how many people are willing to take a flyer on this novel, but how many of you are going out on Twitter and Facebook and Snapchat and telling other folks about it.

Y’all are the best.

I want to put up another sample chapter for you to get a little more of a peek at the book but I’m curious what you might like to see.

More from the prologue? A page from the Encyclopedia Alenda describing some more about the races? The pinepapple planet?

Let me know!

And thanks again!

Tom