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"How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?"

- Dr. Seuss

 Aloha All,

It’s almost impossible to believe it’s been over five months since my last update on Lost in the Fog.  But here we are.  Working with a development editor has been an amazing and enriching experience, and my novel will be so much better for it.  But it’s also been mind numbing how long it’s taken me to finish!

If I didn’t have a full-time job that consumed most of my time, I would have completed the final version of Lost the Fog months ago.   I am certain of that.  But of course, that is just a convenient excuse, and I know I could have carved out more minutes, hours, and days to work on it.  Playing the role of Sigmund Freud, maybe there’s some perverse part of me that doesn’t want to be done . . . this is, after all, a book I’ve been working on for more than a decade.  Finally letting go of it is both exciting and terrifying. 

But I promise you I will, and very soon.

My editor Caroline completed her second round of edits back in March, and I’ve been working (slowly, as explained previously) on my final version of the manuscript ever since.  This weekend was a big one for me, and I made significant progress.  My goal is to turn Lost in the Fog to Inkshares by the end of the month.

From there we have the final copy edit by the publisher, the galley proof revisions before the book goes to the printer, and the cover art and publication process.  I’m still hoping for late 2018 for you to get your hands on Lost in the Fog, and once I have a better idea of the actual date, you’ll be the first to know. 

As always, thank you so much for your support!  Mahalo! 

-Mike 

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    Hello Readers...I wanted to share this update on the project with you...

    #UNLOAD: Guns in the Hands of Artists 
    Presented by Fairfield University Art Museum in partnership with#UNLOAD and Guns In The Hands of Artists Foundation—Opens June 1 

    This exhibition is part of a nationwide initiative to generate conversation about guns and gun violence.  

    FAIRFIELD, Conn. (April 3, 2018)—The Fairfield University Art Museum,in partnership with#UNLOAD and theGuns In The Hands of Artists Foundation, announces the opening of the exhibition, #UNLOAD: Guns in the Hands of Artists.  
    Each piece in the exhibition was created using decommissioned guns, taken off the streets of New Orleans via the city’s gun buyback program, and distributed to internationally-known artists. Painters, glass artists, sculptors, photographers, video artists, poets, and other artists used the decommissioned firearms to create works of art that address the complex issue of guns and gun violence. The exhibition will open on Friday, June 1 and run through October 13, 2018 in the museum’s Walsh Gallery. 

    The show originated in the mid-1990s in New Orleans, where a spiking murder rate led artist Brian Borrello to conceive of the first iteration of Guns in the Hands ofArtistsexhibition, by bringing the discussion over the role of guns and gun violence in our society into the realm of art; art as the language for dialogue and possibly change without the often partisan politics that surround the issue. 
     
    Borrello and gallery owner Jonathan Ferrara mounted this exhibition at Positive Space The Gallery in September 1996, in the Lower Garden District of New Orleans. A one-month run of the exhibition attracted national attention including a feature article in The New York Timesby Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Rick Bragg, and a segment on ABC News’ Good Morning America.  

    Since 1996, Guns in the Hands of Artistshas been re-activated in galleries, art centers, and gun trade shows in Washington, D.C. and Portland, Oregon, and the project has inspired similar efforts in other cities nationwide. The exhibition has traveled to The Aspen Institute in Colorado, Washington University in St. Louis, Art Basel Miami Beach, Minneapolis with Pillsbury United Communities, and Washington DC at the New America Foundation and in the Rotunda of the Russell Senate Office Building. 

    “As an artist, activist and social entrepreneur, I asked myself, ‘What can I do to address this issue that pervades our society?’” said Ferrara. “Putting together this exhibition is my way of doing something. It’s my goal to use art and the creative process to facilitate new, frank dialogue about gun violence and guns in our society.”  

    The exhibition will continue to generate dialogue about guns and gun violence, initiated in New Orleans, over two decades ago. Guns in the Hands of Artists, will offer the opportunity to continue this national conversation with a focus on Connecticut’s response to the challenges posed by the threat of gun violence, and the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012. 

    The museum plans a full slate of programs in conjunction with this exhibition, beginning with an opening nightreception andpanel discussion moderated by Helen Klisser During, co-founder and artistic director of #UNLOAD, with several of the exhibiting artists including Paul Villinski, Bradley McCallum and guest curator Jonathan Ferrara, on “Art Making for Social Change,” Thursday, May 31st at 5 p.m. in the Quick Center’s Wien Experimental Theatre.  

    On Thursday, September 12at 5 p.m., the museum will host a panel discussion in the Wien Theatre on “Gun Violence in Connecticut: Realities and Paths Forward,” aimed to facilitate public engagement on the realities of gun violence in Connecticut, and weigh the value of different approaches to reducing accessibility to guns. Confirmed panelists include Brett Peterkin, statewide coordinator, DOJ Project Longevity, and Jeremy Stein, executive director, Connecticut Against Gun Violence. 

    On Thursday, September 20at 6 p.m., Barone Campus Center, Oak Room, Patrick Kelley, MD, DrPH,Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Marion Peckham Egan School of Nursing and Health Studies, and founder, Forum on Global Violence Prevention at the National Academies of Science, U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (to be confirmed), and Mayor Elect of New Orleans, LaToya Cantrell(to be confirmed), will engage in a conversation about “Gun Violence as a Public Health Crisis,” moderated by Congressman Jim Himes.  

    The culminating event presented in conjunction with this exhibition will be on Friday, October 12. A “Closing Night Party” will showcase a world premiere dance of a new work by Movement Art Is (MAI), commissioned by the Quick Center for the Arts. MAI, featuring artists Jon Boogz and Lil Buck, is creating this work in response to the powerful works in the exhibition.   
    Additional programming is in the final stages, and will be updated atfairfield.edu/unload. 

    Artists featured in the Guns in the Hands of Artistsexhibition include Generic Art Solutions, Neil Alexander, Luis Cruz Azaceta, John Barnes, Rob Bechet, Andrei Codrescu, R. Luke DuBois, Margaret Evangeline, Jonathan Ferrara, Rico Gatson, MK Guth, Marcus Kenney, Deborah Luster, Bradley McCallum, Adam Mysock, Ted Riederer, Paul Villinski, Club S&S (Stephen Paul Day & Sibylle Peretti), Robert C. Tannen, Nicholas Varney, William Villalongo, Sidonie Villere, and John Schuerman. Works by these artists are included in the collections of many of the country’s most prestigious museum collections including The Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Modern Art, Brooklyn Museum, New Orleans Museum of Art, and have been featured in major biennials like The Whitney Biennial and Prospect Biennial, New Orleans. 

    Ferrara has released a new book for the project entitled Guns in the Hands of Artists(Ink Shares, 2016), featuring thought-provoking artwork from the show and essays authored by renowned thought leaders such as U.S. Senator Tim Kaine, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Richard Ford, The Aspen Institute’s former CEO Walter Isaacson, Grammy Award-winning rapper Lupe Fiasco, and shooting victim and Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, among many others. The book will be available for sale at the Fairfield University Bookstore. 
    This exhibition is a part of #UNLOAD, a Connecticut arts-based initiative that seeks to drive consensus around the divisive issue of gun violence. Visit theunloadusa.orgfor more information about 2018 events taking place across the state. 

    The Walsh Gallery of the Fairfield University Art Museum is located in the Quick Center for the Arts on the campus of Fairfield University, 200 Barlow Road, Fairfield, Connecticut. It is open to the public Wednesday through Saturday, 12-4 p.m., when classes are in session. Admission is free.  Please consult the museum website for details (https://www.fairfield.edu/museum) and summer hours. 


    Fairfield University is a modern, Jesuit Catholic university rooted in one of the world’s oldest intellectual and spiritual traditions. More than 5,000 undergraduate and graduate students from the U.S. and across the globe are pursuing degrees in the University’s five schools. Fairfield embraces a liberal humanistic approach to education, encouraging critical thinking, cultivating free and open inquiry, and fostering ethical and religious values. The University is located on a stunning 200- acre campus on the scenic Connecticut coast just an hour from New York City.
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      Hi Everyone, 

      I just wanted to let you all know that the first book in the series, The Chronicles of the Great Migration (Of Which Upon Stilted Cities is now Book #2) is about to be released. Book 1, titled "Mimi of the Nowhere" is due out May 17th 2018. I decided to self-publish this volume. 
       
      You can find the cover reveal and a link to the first six chapters of this book at https://wp.me/p27T14-p1 I am also giving out free copies to anyone who signs up for the newsletter on my website beginning May 17th

      I hope you all are well, and for the followers who are also writers, happy writing. 

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        Hello Adventure Readers,

        The signed pre-order hardcover books have been mailed out and you should have yours by now.  If not, check to see if you have the correct mailing address on your Inkshares profile.  If you don’t get get your book in the next week or so, please contact me at Leandogs@gmail.com or Inkshares at Hello@inkshares.com.  The ebook should be released to all backers soon and if you need another hardcover version, they have them in stock at the Inkshares office (or you can buy a signed copy from me on my website).

        I just finalized an Author signing event in San Diego for June and am working on lining up some events in Los Angeles and Austin.  To keep updated on all happenings and book release info sign up for my bi-monthly Lean Dog newsletter at www.leandogproductions.com

        Hope everyone is enjoying the amazing cover design by Clint Beach at Attic Studios and diving into the adventure!  Books hit store shelves and online markets May 29th.

        Sincerely,

        Eric H. Heisner

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           Check out the new Promotional Video I’m launching for The Animal in Man Saga! 

           At this point, I realized the old one was severely outdated. At this stage of the game it just wasn’t good enough. After all the writing, cutting, rewriting, recutting, and of course the finagling, mangling, and beautifying I’ve done to the story, I know I got something special here for you. It’s time to get this project out to a broader audience. Please hit that Share button and help me get the word out!

           Ultra-special thanks to Kyle Probst for shooting and compiling all this footage (and somehow making me appear presentable). And as ever, an outlandish heap of thanks to all you Animals out there, my greatest supporters. Some exciting news is forthcoming… (Perhaps with an ACTUAL DATE…?)

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            751 copies!!!!!!!!!! We are there and I wish you were here. It’s poor man’s cake in our pajamas at this house tonight. My little family gets their mom back...at least until the editor calls for my chapters.  This book is printing because of you my crowdfunding friends. Thank you sincerely. - Kris

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              Well, I know it’s been a long time since I gave an update for Vast Land. I’m sure most of you know I was not able to make the required preorders  for publication. Yes I should have updated the first chapter as I promised, but my health has been up and down for the last month. Again, this has been an issue before. I have managed to push past it in the past.

              I’ve been busy updating the entire story structure before rewriting the entire novel. This was something that needed to happen in order to move the story along with a more natural flow. I hope to release it to an audience in the very near future.

              I would like to thank you all for following along. 
              I will wait at least two months before starting another campaign. Unless a contest comes along that fits one of them before that.

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