So look what arrived yesterday:
Most of these are for those fabulous readers who won my Deus Hex Machina raffles. I’m feeling a little punk right now, but I couldn’t help but share. When I feel better I will sign these and send them off to the winners.
We’re 8 orders away from the next raffle, so if you’ve followed DHM, enjoyed what you’ve read of it, please consider ordering.
Okay, that’s it, back to resting. Have a good weekend!
Quick second update because Deus Hex Machina hit 140 orders! Time for another raffle. As a reminder, every ten orders for DHM I am raffling off a signed copy of Shadow of the Owl, my debut novel. Today’s winner is...
Yolond! Such a cool person they don’t even need a last name! Congrats and thank you for supporting DHM!
My next raffle is at 150 orders, and that’s an important one since it means the book will be at 60% of its first funding goal!
Have a great night!
Today I officially head into writing mode. I took a break from writing to compete to my fullest in the S&L contest, and when that didn’t pan out I sort of hit a writing slump. I talked with some writing friends over the weekend, had them look at the chapter I have posted for DHM, and received some excellent constructive criticism. Man, I forgot how much I miss writing workshops!
The result is that I have committed to a writing schedule, and spent the morning plotting out said schedule on my calendar. I should have the book finished by April. It’s not quite a Nanowrimo schedule, but writing a scene a day for five days a week seems on paper pretty reasonable.
I have already promised to post chapter two for you fine folks, and I apologize that I didn’t get that finished in a timely fashion and posted. I will remedy that hopefully by the end of this week -- at least that is my hope. I will probably also post Chapter 3 when I get to it, but this project isn’t going to lay all its cards on the table. We have to maintain our air of mystery, Isidore and I.
Deus Hex Machina is an experiment for me. Can I write in a different genre and have readers respond? Can I translate what was originally a visual work to a purely written format? Can I really turn this noveling thing into a career? All these questions still rattle around in my brain. It will be interesting to see what happens as 2016 progresses and I write this thing. Hopefully only good will come of it.
Shameless preorder request incoming:
Everyone I’ve shared DHM with has responded positively, and that is wonderful. Speaking of wonderful, I should be receiving my shipment of books to sign this week (UPS says they are currently in Colorado -- I hope they get some time to play in the snow), which means I will get the chance to send out my backer contest rewards to the nearly dozen or so winners I’ve had so far. I am only 1 order away from the next raffle, which means I am also only 161 orders away from Quill. If you have followed DHM and enjoy what you read here, please consider backing the book. I will continue to give away books all the way through 750, and might start upping the ante as I get closer to June. Right now though, 250 is the first goal.
Know someone who likes scifi? Share the book with them, encourage them to order, and encourage them to share as well. Together we can do this.
I ordered books! For the first time I placed an order for my own books, for the express purpose of signing them and sending them out to the winners of my DHM raffles. (I am three orders away from my next one, btw, so I ordered an extra just in case).
This actually happened a couple of days ago, but I got distracted with life happening (ugh) so I'm just getting to this now. We hit 130 orders so it's time for another raffle!
Good morning readers!
It's been an amazing ride, hasn't it?
Deus Hex Machina has hit 100 readers (Actually 101 so I'll run the drawing through to that number)! It's time for another giveaway! Congrats to...Julian Green and Finn Mcrae!
I am honored to announce that Deus Hex Machina was chosen as the February book for the Break the Bechdel syndicate. I am humbled that a group of esteemed Inkshares readers identified with Isidore RAM and her story. As a small thank you, I will post the complete chapter two today, which introduces our inciting incident as well as Daxas Piers. Mechs ahoy friends!
This means that we blew past our 150 order raffle and are only 1 order away from the 160 raffle! Amazing!!! I will do the raffle pull later on today, since I really need to get that last scene written before I can post the chapter. It’s a biggie.