Hello Everyone!

Hi Everybody!

Today is a sad day because unless Squids In finishes in the Top 3 of the Nerdist Video-Game contest, the illustration below might well be the last time you guys get to see Hendrix the octopus. Luckily the final illustration for Chapter 3 is a great one. It shows the burgeoning friendship between Toby and Hendrix, when Toby finally realises that the octopus has been without food for a good few days and so finds some crab meat with which to feed him.

Once again, this illustration was done by Eugene Karasz who I found over on DeviantArt. If any of you guys need an artist for any of your projects, let me know and I can put the two of you in touch.

For a brief period yesterday, Squids In surged up the leaderboard to 4th place! Sadly the book has dropped back to 5th today. It seems that the books sudden surge has pushed our competitors into action. 

If you have yet to commit to ordering this silly book about a video-game playing octopus, please give some consideration to doing so and have a read (or listen) to the chapters I have uploaded. 

It’s gonna be a fun few weeks. Remember, the contest ends on 15th July at 7am in the UK (which probably means I will be up all night trying to scrap the last few orders I can from some Australian supporters)!

Matthew

Woohoo, Squids In has just moved up to 4th place in the contest! 

Thank you to all of my friends, work colleagues, family and the Inkshares community for supporting the book and getting it into this position.

Onwards to 3rd!!!

Matthew

Hello Everyone!

Depending on whereabouts in the world you are, you may not be aware that over the past 24 hours, the population of the UK has done something quite extraordinary. They have voted in a referendum to leave the European Union. 

The vote was close (52% out versus 48% in) but the result has started a chain reaction that’s already forced in our Prime Minister to resign and caused the UK financial markets to go into  free-fall (Tip - If you want to by GBP currency, do it NOW!!!). Dystopian future indeed...

Although this is like the biggest news day for a generation over here in the UK, I’m unable to keep up to date with it all because Hendrix has a friend over and they just want to spend the day playing retro Atari 2600 games.

SQUIDS IN is still in 5th place currently, but "Mothering:The Game" is just one pre-order behind in 6th place, so our position in the top 5 certainly isn’t stable. What we need is a further 15 pre-orders in order to get back on terms with the guys infront. 

If you know anyone who may be able to help me to achieve this task, please make them aware of SQUIDS IN and ask them if they would be willing to support this silly little video-game playing octopus.

Thank you very much!

Matthew 

Here is the latest illustration for SQUIDS IN from Eugene.

In this scene, Toby’s friend Baker is drinking beer while Toby looks up the details of the animal lab break in on his phone. I really like how Eugene has made Baker look. I’m not great on describing people and scenes in my writing but the process of getting illustrations created by someone has forced me to figure out how these the scene looks, what the people are wearing, how they would act in certain situations. I’m really enjoying working on both the actual writing of my book and working with Eugene on the artwork.

SQUIDS IN has received a good run of orders over the past few days and this will hopefully continue given some interesting things that will be happening soon:

The weekly WriteBrain podcast that discusses the Inkshares platform and community will be mentioning the book in next weeks episode (recording tonight). Hopefully JF and Paul like my project page and give it at least one thumbs up out of the four (I assume) they have.

Also, Angela from Inkshares has been in touch to ask me to write something for an upcoming Inkshares/Nerdist blog post, so hopefully that will spread the word to a few people who have not heard of the contest previously and bring them to the site.

Thank you to all of you for your continued support!

Matthew

Another day, another great piece of artwork from my illustrator Eugene Karasz. 

In this scene, the story’s main protagonist Toby stands in the doorway looking bored after walking in on an animal activists meeting.

Hey Guys,

Today’s going well. My son got me a great Fathers Day gift and I got the octopus on my first attempt at a Buzzfeed "Which Finding Dory Character are you" quiz...

Also I recently created a Facebook page for my book SQUIDS IN - https://www.facebook.com/SQUIDSINBOOK/

If you like the book, please head on over and like the Facebook page too. You might even find some behind the scenes stuff there too.

SQUIDS IN is still 5th in the Nerdist contest, but 6th place is only 4 pre-orders behind, so your help to stay infront would be greatly appreciated.

All the Best

Matthew (and Hendrix)

Hey Guys,

Hey guys,

This is just a quick reminder that tomorrow at 12:00 GMT (about 14 hours from now) all of you who have pre-ordered SQUIDS IN will be entered into a raffle to win one of three cuddly octopuses from the Disney Store, in recognition of the international launch of the film "Find Dory".

if you have yet to place a pre-order, get it in now to be in with a chance of winning your own cuddly octopus.

Have a great weekend!

Matthew