Support for Tantalus Depths is surging again! We’re now at 213 pre-orders and climbing rapidly. I have no doubts whatsoever we’ll hit Quill soon, probably within the next week. Remember, if we get there by the 5th, I’m giving everyone a free short story right then and there. 37 pre-orders in two and a half days is a bit of a long shot, but it can be done if everyone really pushes for it!

I’m in the process of figuring out a more consistent kind of update schedule, delivering certain kinds of updates on certain days. I’ll have more on that later today once I get it worked out.

Also! It’s come to my attention that I don’t think I actually linked this here on inkshares back when I first posted it (naturally, I posted it everywhere else, but forgot to put it in the one place it matters most).

Back when the Geek and Sundry Hard Science Fiction competition was in its latter days, some of the top entrants were asked by Inkshares what their dream movie cast would be for their books. I wasn’t asked, but I took it upon myself to come up with a cast anyway. If you’d like to see my personal cast picks for a big-screen adaptation of Tantalus Depths, and get a bit more information on some characters you haven’t seen much from yet, you can check them out on Tantalus Depths’ blog here!
 

Here we are!

Tantalus Depths has finally hit 200 pre-orders! 202, actually, as of this moment.

I cannot begin to express how thankful I am to have reached this milestone. We are now only 48 pre-orders away from reaching the Quill goal! However, I have no intention of stopping at 250. Tantalus Depths will go for the 750 goal no matter how far away it may seem now. You’ve helped us get this far, you can help us get the rest of the way!

As a reminder, I’m still running a promotion: if Tantalus Depths reaches 250 pre-orders by June 5th, I will make my short story, The Perspective Machine, immediately free to download for a short time. That’s ten orders a day for the next five days. Our record is 25 orders in a day, so this can definitely be done! Talk to your friends and family, bring in as many new supporters as you can. Quill is within reach!
 

@Jamison Stone By the time this campaign is over, I will have. You can only sit in front of a computer refreshing your dashboard page and going through your entire contacts list looking for people you haven’t messaged yet so many times before it starts to do things to your brain

@Evan Graham Do you have an official diagnosis of  obsessive compulsive disorder? 

  Keep up the pre-orders and spreading the word! We’re making steady progress towards our goal.

I have one last formal promo video for you, this one focusing on the hero of Tantalus Depths, the ever-vigilant star-pilot, Mary Ketch!
 

Tantalus Depths is just ten orders away from 200! Who wants to help get it over the hill? If you haven’t ordered a copy yet, now is the best time for it! If you have already ordered a copy, find a friend who hasn’t, and get them to do it. I’m sure you all have at least one friend who’s a fan of this genre!

Don’t forget! Tune in between 4 and 6 PM Eastern US time to WRUW-FM for a special exclusive radio interview about Tantalus Depths! You’ll get to hear an interview with me, an exclusive reading of a thusfar unreleased excerpt from the book, and maybe a bit of wacky improv. You can listen to it online from anywhere in the world here at www.wruw.org.

Keep up the hard work promoting Tantalus Depths, my friends. We’re making definite progress. As a reward for your hard work getting us this far, I’m offering a special promotion:
If Tantalus Depths reaches 250 pre-orders by June 5th, I will make my original short story, The Perspective Machine, free to download for everyone for a short time. Unlike Tantalus Depths, which you’ll still have to wait until the campaign ends and the editing process concludes before you can read, The Perspective Machine is finished and already published online. It’ll be free to download the instant we hit 250 orders!
 

The Perspective Machine  
When a secret society dedicated to perfecting humanity’s flaws develops a machine capable of granting one person full omniscience, they believe they hold the key to mankind’s salvation in their hands. The mentally handicapped brother of one of their members seems to be the perfect subject to receive the machine’s power...but is he? What will become of the world when the power of a god falls into the hands of a man?  

Tantalus Depths is only 14 pre-orders away from 200! Keep pushing on, keep sharing, and keep showing support however you can! If you haven’t placed your own pre-order yet, now is the perfect time.