My lovely supporters,
Gentle readers,
Huge thanks to the following folks for their support this past week:
And especially Thomas J. Arnold, who was my 142nd, 143rd, and 144th preorder.
Going into the final six days of the campaign, I have been tightening up the outline in preparation to implement some draft notes I’ve received from beta readers, and working with Adam Gomolin to bring the second half of the novel from not existing to not sucking. It’s come a long way from the humble little novella it was in March, but I still need to sell 106 preorders in order for this project to reach Quill.
If you’ve already preordered your copy, consider preordering another to foist upon friends and family.
If you haven’t yet, I really need your support. If you’re not in a position to spend another $10, I totally understand (I’m not either, you’ll notice from the lack of "preorder swap" DMs) but would still appreciate your spreading the word on social media.
We only need to sell like 20 preorders a day to reach our goal, we can totally do this.
-J.
Hello, friends!
A quick one to thank the 105 individual readers, including the three syndicates and those of you who have ordered multiple copies, who have helped the campaign go as far as it’s gone. You guys are awesome, this is more of anything than I’ve ever sold in my creative life, and I appreciate each and every one of you.
My strategy, such as it is, was to see if the project would gain traction organically. It’s been a fun experiment and a definite learning experience, but unless I sell 114 preorders in the next ten days, Devil’s Call is not going to make it to Quill.
I’m doing what I can this last week and a half, but my real hope is that after reading this you, dear reader, will go on Twitter or Facebook or whatever the kids are using these days and tell a friend or three how excited you are about this project.
It takes 30 seconds to say, "Hey, there’s a really great genre-bending novel fundraising on Inkshares, it was written by an independent author, she’s halfway to her goal but has ten days left to reach it, it’s only $10 to preorder a copy and support diversity in literature," plus then you get the satisfaction of one day telling your friends how you backed the hell out of a project that didn’t look like it was going to make it and now look at it, all grown up and selling its own copies.
-J.
Today, Seeking the Elephant ends its pre-sale campaign.
We didn’t make the 250 pre-sale goal, but I’m not worried about it. As a writer and a person who’s not particularly skilled at self-promotion, I learned real promotion skills, and how to get comfortable with public interaction. More importantly, we built up a real following.
Going forward, as Seeking the Elephant finds its footing in real-world publication, I will be reaching out to those who were good enough to support this campaign.
I want to thank some people & groups!
In the meantime, please follow Seeking the Elephant on Facebook as well as Twitter for future updates.
Have a great weekend!
