Greetings, adventurers!

This will likely be the last time you hear from me for a bit as I delve into all the material necessary to help bring Mushroom and Anchovy to life. There’s a lot of work to be done, so if I don’t update for awhile, that’s why. I assure you that you will find out information as I do, so please don’t worry! 

Thank you for bearing with me last week while I took a little step away. Here are the winners of the draw:

Congrats to PAULETTE DIOTTE! You have won the $50 Amazon gift card! And congratulations to VICTORIA MARTIN and CAPRICE FRANCIS, the two winners of the Hub City Survival ebooks. Hooray!

I’m "going on vacation" next week, which really means I’m taking a week long break from social media and work that isn’t 100% for me. I’m going on my bi-annual Unicorn Cave Writer’s Retreat next week, as well, to try and gather some new creative energy, hike in the woods, sit by the campfire, and more. 

In the meantime, please join me over at my blog and my Facebook page! I just released a new post: What’s next? This regards the future of my other projects.

Thanks again for reaching this goal with me, adventurers! If you wanted to preorder but missed the campaign, you’re still welcome to do so as the book will be accepting preorders up until its release.  

I may not talk to you all soon, but it’ll be as soon as I can.

May your adventures be fraught with wonder and just enough peril to keep them interesting,

K. M. Cooper

Greetings, adventurers!

I’d be remiss if I didn’t update in the wake of exciting news! 

Guys... we did it. With just 2 days left in the campaign, we hit the 250 mark. Mushroom and Anchovy is FUNDED at the Quill level!

I’m at a loss for words, but the only two that come to mind are THANK YOU. I couldn’t have done this without everyone reading this e-mail. I’m so grateful for everything. 

Can I just say that I’m really feeling the Inkshares community love right now? You guys are awesome. Even if I don’t do another crowdfunding campaign in the near future, I’m gonna be sticking around. What a supportive group of fellow authors--a group of very talented people. I’ve learned so much from you all. 

If you want the chance at a $50 Amazon gift card, you still have time! I’m not closing the contest until the official end of the campaign--which is Monday. So, I will not count any preorders after 11:59 PM on Sunday (Sept. 10th) in the Amazon gift card draw. You’re automatically entered by preordering, but you can pick up some bonus entries. Take a look at the pinned post on my Facebook page for more details. 

Now, if you don’t mind, I’m going to be taking the next couple days off! I’ll get back to you all with the winner of the draw next week. I’m throwing in two ebook copies of my first book, novella Hub City Survival. It’s nothing like Mushroom and Anchovy, but hopefully the winners will enjoy it anyway!

That’s it from me for now, guys. This has been a real adventure. Thank you all for helping my biggest goal of this year come to fruition!

May your adventures be fraught with wonder and just enough peril to keep them interesting,

K. M. Cooper

Greetings, adventurers! 

 We’re at the home stretch, folks. The last few days. The final countdown, if you will. 

 With less than 25 preorders to go at time of writing, I’m starting to feel excited and hopeful! I still have work to do, though, to get to that number. Look at this beautiful bar:

So close!

 Thanks (again!) to local radio hosts Scotty and Tony of XL96 for blogging about Mushroom and Anchovy (again!). These two have been supportive of my work for years. Thanks again, guys! 

 By the way, this coming Thursday, I’m going to be starting a new initiative over on my Facebook page called Au-Thursday. I’m going to be featuring up-and-coming and indie authors, and their books. The first people to be featured will be supporters of MushAnch! Give my Facebook page a follow to see the authors I’ll be featuring. If you want a feature, hit me with a DM! 

 Final reminder about the draw! As I’ve mentioned before, you get an entry for preordering, but additional entries for sharing the pinned post on my Facebook page, and more. Details are all right here on that post! You can win a $50 Amazon gift card. I’ll be throwing in 2 ebook copies of my first book, Hub City Survival, if I hit the goal before 11:59 PM my time on Sunday. If I get the goal before the end of today, I’ll throw in a print copy. Let’s do this! 

Thank you so much for this, guys, really. At this rate, it’s looking like it might just happen. And if, by some chance, it doesn’t, I’m so grateful for everyone who’s been following the campaign and contributing in any way. I’ve learned a lot from this experience and have managed to discover so many interesting up-and-coming books through this. 

 May your adventures be fraught with wonder and just enough peril to keep them interesting, 

 K. M. Cooper

Greetings, adventurers!

WHAAAT? It’s not Friday! Though that may be true, I do feel compelled to write to you today because we’ve reached the critical timeframe: there is just one week left to make the preorder goal, as of today. We have just 70 preorders to go, which is a very small number, and also very doable! If you haven’t preordered yet, I really hope you’ll consider doing so shortly.

To try and get that last push for orders, I’ve created a Facebook event. If you would join the event and spread the word, I’d be very appreciative!

Mushroom and Anchovy has also been chosen as the Syndicate Pick for the Quill Brotherhood Syndicate this month, I am very pleased to say! That makes our second Syndicate Pick, and I’m very grateful. Thank you so much for choosing me!

Don’t forget about the contest, which could win you an Amazon gift card! If I hit 250 preorders before the 10th, I’ll also throw in a copy of my first book, Hub City Survival, and maybe an ebook as well!

All right, folks... this is it. Please help me push this book! I’ve been working very hard and want to bring this book to you in its best form. 70 is such a small number. At this point one month ago, the book didn’t even have 70 preorders yet, so I know we can hit this goal!

If there’s anything I can do to convince you to preorder, please let me know. I’d be more than happy to discuss any aspect of this campaign with you one-on-one!

May your adventures be fraught with wonder and just enough peril to keep them interesting,

K. M. Cooper

Sorry for the second e-mail, folks, but I needed to follow up quickly to let you know that I was wrong about the referrals and they are no longer a function of the Inkshares program.

You WILL, however, get my undying, eternal gratitude for referring a friend. And that’s priceless, right?

Sorry for the error, folks! Talk to you next week!

Greetings, adventurers! 

 A bit of a slower week compared with last week, but still a good one. We’re getting closer and closer to the end, with just a bit over a week to go and 93 preorders to go at time of writing. It’ll be very close but I think we’ll be able to sneak right in, just in time. 

 A quick note: please double check your orders to make sure you’ll get your book! If you’ve had any problems with your orders, please make sure to reach out to hello@inkshares.com. 

 This is a big reminder about the contest! You can win a $50 Amazon gift card! You get one entry just for preordering, then an extra one for every preorder, extra entries for Facebook shares of the post, and more. All the details are in the pinned post over on my Facebook page.  

Could I ask a favour of all of you this week? Could you please message a friend or family member that might enjoy this book and tell them a bit about it? When you do, please make sure to click “share” on the book’s page to generate your personal referral code for Inkshares credits! Make sure you’re logged in to Inkshares and click “Share” on Mushroom and Anchovy’s page to share your referral link. 

The reason for this is that one-on-one conversations have been, in my experience, the best way to get results in the campaign. 

 At this time, we have to turn all this pressure into diamonds. And like the treasure hunters in this book, we’ve gotta hunt those diamonds down and claim them as our own! Or... something like that. 

 Thanks for everything, adventurers. I’m really grateful to have so many of you joining me on this, and I’m really floored by the amount of people who have been preordering so far. Thank you! 

 May your adventures be fraught with wonder and just enough peril to keep them interesting, 

 K. M. Cooper

Greetings, adventurers! 

 Some bittersweet news: we are no longer in the running for the Launchpad contest, as we did not make the top 75. A HUGE congratulations to those who did make the cut! Now I get the opportunity to follow several more exciting up-and-coming books. All in all, it was a good experience. Thanks to Launchpad and Inkshares for the opportunity!

 So now, to the good news! It’s been another HUGE week, so I have lots to share. 

 This was another exciting week for the campaign, and another huge milestone! In fact… we hit TWO milestones. Firstly, on Sunday, we hit the 100 preorders mark. Considering we were barely over 50 preorders at the beginning of the month, this was a pretty exciting number to hit. Then, yesterday, we hit the halfway point of the campaign! 

 So, we’re now over 125 preorders, and we have less than that many to go with a little less than three weeks left. It’ll be tight, but I think we’ll be able to squeeze in the full 250. Thank you to everyone who has been preordering and spreading the word—there are a lot of you! 

 This week, I was featured on the front page of ThisWeek (see what I did there?), an arts-focused paper distributed weekly to my area. The multi-talented Margaret Eaton came by my house and interviewed me about my creative work, with a focus on Mushroom and Anchovy. Her article was very in-depth and I really couldn’t be happier. Thank you, Margaret! 

 On the same day Margaret came by, I recorded a little video to try and convince a few other people to preorder. It’s right here if you want to see me yelling about my book (because you haven’t seen that enough already).  

 I had a couple other points to make, friends, but this e-mail is long enough. I’m just happy I can present this much information for you, because it’s really exciting to me! I am 52% of the way to reaching my biggest goal for this year. Thanks for reading this far and joining me along the way. 

May your adventures be fraught with wonder and just enough peril to keep them interesting, 

 K. M. Cooper

Greetings, adventurers! 

WHAT. A. WEEK. Wow. Since last update, we’ve seen a giant leap in orders. We’ve had over thirty preorders in the past week, we’ve been selected for the SnarkyDarkSy syndicate, and we’ve leapt up to 4th place in the Inkshares contest! We’re about 25 unique preorders away from getting to 3rd place, which, if you recall, will get us published as well, if we retain. 

I’m thrilled about the direction the campaign has taken, and I have nowhere to look but to the recipients of this e-mail for thanks. All of you have given me so much hope for a positive result. Thank you, thank you! 24 days remain in the campaign, and, with the forward movement we’ve seen this past week, I am confident we can make this happen.

A little bad news: due to unforeseen circumstances, Wednesday’s live reading had to be cancelled. The good news, however, is that it has been rescheduled to NEXT Wednesday! So, join me at 9 PM AST on my Facebook page next Wednesday the 23rd, and I’ll be reading from chapter 4 live for your enjoyment! 

But wait, there’s more! My talented friend (I have a lot of those) Laura Blackbeard drew some gift art of our protagonists! Without further ado, I present to you Patricia "Anchovy" Finnigan...

...and Vladimir "Mushroom" Kalkov!

Laura, thank you so much for feeling inspired enough to draw my characters. I really love these drawings and it’s been hard for me to keep quiet about them until Friday. I mean, everything I’ve discussed today has been hard to keep quiet about until Friday! What a week. If you like Laura’s work, check out her blog. She is also available for commissions.

Thank you for everything, adventurers, and a special thanks to all of you who have been sharing on social media! A reminder that if you’ve already backed the book, you should definitely enter the contest I’m doing on my Facebook page to win a $50 Amazon gift card. Check the pinned post for more details. If you’re going to be sharing on social media, after all, you’d might as well get rewarded for it!

May all your adventures be fraught with wonder and just enough peril to keep them interesting, 

 K. M. Cooper