To all my fierce supporters,

It’s been a little over a month since Indispensable was published and it’s been making it’s way in the world!  A couple of highlights over the past month:

• Indispensable hit #1 in New Releases in Amazon’s Job Hunting Category:  It may not be the NYTimes Bestseller list, but I’m proud that the book gained enough traction to hit the top in its core category! 
• My first podcast on the book:  Justin Nassiri at Behind the Uniform interviewed me to understand how the book can support those making the transition from the military into the workforce. You can find it here.
  
• Buzzfeed article out:  This Buzzfeed article includes a teaser of some of the advice in the book. Feel free to share with those who may not be in the market for the whole book.
• And, finally, reflections on how I’m feeling about the whole thing:  As always, I’ve posted more reflections on my blog, The Intentional, particularly about the experience of sending the book out into the world.  Read on and subscribe to receive posts via email (on the right hand side of the page).  

If you’re motivated to further support the book, the most useful thing you can do is leave a review on Amazon; I’m targeting getting to at least 30 reviews before I need to relax on book marketing and focus on both baby number two (due 9/6!) and manuscript number two (in the works!).

Sending you all lots of love and thanks!
Meredith

Alright friends, the grand finale is approaching.

Technically, it’s more like 28.5, since the campaign actually ends in the afternoon on the 29th, but close enough.

We are now officially in the final month of the Proteus campaign: a campaign that has been running for well over a year now and gathered an astonishing 558 orders already. We have less than 200 left to acquire, then Proteus will receive the same full publication deal that Tantalus Depths has already earned.

Can we do it? 192 orders in one month is no small thing, after all. Even so, the answer is a firm yes. Not only can we do it in that time, but we can likely do it sooner. On Tantalus Depths’ last day campaigning, we gathered more than 80 orders. 80 orders in one day. Granted, two syndicates boosted us that day as well, but my point stands, we could hit that goal in just one or two days of real, solid support.

I don’t expect to reach our goal in two days, obviously. But my point is, we could. Our final goal is absolutely within our reach. My personal goal is to finish the Proteus campaign before Tantalus Depths goes into copy edits, which is likely to happen in the next two weeks. This is an extremely doable goal, provided we really rally for it.

Now more than ever, I need your support. If you haven’t yet ordered Proteus, order a copy. Order two copies. If you have ordered a copy, order a second copy. Get your friends to order a copy, get your family to order copies. Ask anyone you can think of to order a copy. If you can’t afford to buy a copy, please tell everyone you know about this book, share these posts on your social media platforms, be as obnoxious about it as I’ve been this entire past year.

It’s not going to be easy. It’s going to be stressful and exhausting. But it will be so worth it.

Let’s do this thing.

Reviews on Goodreads and Amazon are nice. I’m just saying.

Dear friends and followers,

The ebook download links for "A Gentleman’s Murder" were sent out today. I am currently at the Inkshares office signing the books for those of you who ordered print copies during the funding campaign. Those should be shipped out tomorrow--a little later than I’d have liked, but you can’t have everything.

We’re nearly there! It’s been a long road, and I hope you’ll enjoy this story, almost as much as I hope you’ll tell the world about it. Your voice counts for something in this world, and your honest opinion would mean a great deal to me.

As noted above, reviews on Goodreads and Amazon are wonderful things.

Hi Folks! 

Guess what? It’s been exactly one year today since The Punch Escrow was published and my life forever changed. The book has now been translated into several languages and I’ve been afforded the opportunity to travel around the world and meet with readers—something I would never have imagined. The process is still in effect! The Korean translation is being published next month. 

My little passion project went on to get starred reviews on Kirkus, Library Journal, and Foreword Reviews—where it ultimately was awarded their Gold Award for best indie sci-fi book of 2017. 

I wanted to take this time to thank you all, again. Thank you for making this possible. This adventure has been nothing short of amazing. I apologize for not personally replying to the many questions many of you have sent me about the film adaptation. It’s just that I don’t really have anything new to report. I’m in weekly communications with the film’s producers, but—as I’m discovering firsthand—it’s hard to make a movie. I promise to share movie updates as soon as anything solid happens on that front.

As for the sequel. Well, I have the whole thing pretty much outlined. I can tell you the working title is The Hash Collision. That’s news, I guess! I’m holding off putting pen to paper until Lionsgate finalizes the first book’s film adaptation so that I don’t risk breaking serious continuity with the sequel (some things will inevitably be different, but I don’t want to write major plot points in the sequel for characters that somehow end up dying in the film adaptation of The Punch Escrow). 

Last: In case you missed it. I’ve had a short story published in the Hugo and Nebula award winning Apex Magazine. It’s called Kerouac’s Renascence, and I invite you to read it. You’ll find it’s a very different tale than Punch. 

My deepest gratitude and well wishes,

Tal

Great news everyone!

First of all, the glitch that was making it appear that we had lost all our pre-orders seems to have been fixed. The number of pre-orders currently displaying on our Inkshares production page now seem to accurately reflect the number of pre-orders we’ve sold, which brings me to our other piece of good news:

Those numbers just got an unexpected boost!

The Staff Syndicate has chosen to support Proteus this month! I had honestly given up any hope of getting any more syndicate support for Proteus, so this came out of absolutely nowhere. Thanks to their sudden surge of support, we’ve gained more than a dozen brand new orders all in one day, and have been brought up to 537 preorders. That means only 213 more to go!

We’re getting so close to the final stretch, and I plan to ride the momentum from this unexpected windfall as far as it will go. The next couple weeks are going to be a wild ride.

Important announcement:

So the several year long journey of getting Ghosts of War: Retribution to publication day has finally come to an end. Many, many hours of writing and editing and deadlines and design and planning and crowdfunding and... 

I got a cold on release day, proceeded to be wiped out, and forgot to do an update... 

Go me. 

But fear not! The book is just as released today as it was yesterday and here are three simple things you can do to help the book as it takes it’s first steps into the wider world. 

1. Read it! 

Unsurprisingly the first step is to actually read the book. If you haven’t yet received your print copy (they’re on the way!), you should be able to download the ebook from the Inkshares website. If you haven’t bought it yet, and would like to here are a few places you can do that: 

Physical 

• Amazon: http://a.co/bSrMEBY (Note: Amazon seems confused about the release date at the moment) 
• Inkshares: https://www.inkshares.com/books/ghosts-of-war 
• Barnes & Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/ghosts-of-war-paul-robinson/1127930360 
• Indigo (Canada): https://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/books/ghosts-of-war-retribution/9781947848900-item.html
• Booktopia (Australia): https://www.booktopia.com.au/ghosts-of-war-paul-robinson/prod9781947848900.html 
• Indiebound: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781947848900 
• The Book Depository (Worldwide free shipping!): https://www.bookdepository.com/Ghosts-War-Paul-Robinson/9781947848900   

Ebook 

• Kobo (US Only): https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/ghosts-of-war-10 
• Inkshares: https://www.inkshares.com/books/ghosts-of-war 
• Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Ghosts-War-Retribution-Paul-Robinson-ebook/dp/B07DJ5PH3B 

2. Leave reviews! 

The next step is to head over to Amazon and Goodreads and leave your reviews. I believe the magic number is 50 reviews for Amazon before it does something magical with their algorithms. So lets aim for 50. 

Every review helps grow the books profile, and will help to get it in front of more peoples eyes. 

• Amazon: http://a.co/bSrMEBY 
• Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39858389-ghosts-of-war 

 3. Tell some people about it! (or everyone even)

Spread the word. Tell people about the book. Encourage them to buy a copy (and leave a review!)

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I think that’ll do for the moment. Lastly though, I want to thank everyone that helped make this thing a reality, you’re all awesome. It still feels weird. It still doesn’t feel real. But I am a published author today (er, yesterday) because of all of you.

I do really need to go lie down now though.

EIGHTEEN DAYS

Dear friends and followers, I just looked at the calendar and realised: there are, as I type this, just eighteen days (and a couple of hours) to go until 31 July, when "A Gentleman’s Murder" is officially released into the wild.

If you happen to be in Montreal for the week following, there will be a book signing and launch event at the Indigo bookstore downtown (Place Montreal Trust, 1500 McGill College Avenue) on Saturday, 04 August from 1 pm to 4 pm.

In the meantime, if you’re in the U.S., there’s a GoodReads Giveaway happening with 25 free copies of the book to be won. Check it out and tell your friends.

And speaking of GoodReads, we’ve got a few reviews there already from readers with advance copies. Reviews have so far been complimentary -- let’s hope the trend keeps up! And I hope you’ll consider adding your own when you’re done.

EIGHTEEN DAYS!