Witherfist is 25% funded!  

Yes, you read that right. At 63 preorders, Witherfist is now a quarter of the way to being published. In her  ’G&S Contest: 11-25’ thread, Jane-Holly Meissner identified that Witherfist is currently placed 13th in the contest. That’s 13th out of over 350 submissions. Wow! We’re 26 readers behind the number 10 spot in the contest - and I’m hoping that we can close that gap by the end of the month.

I mentioned in a previous update that the Epic Fantasy Syndicate was considering selecting Witherfist as their book of the month. The recipient of that honour this month was my fellow contest entrant, The Living God, so a big congrats goes out to Kaytalin Platt!

In other exciting news...

• This weekend, I’ll be at GollanczFest in London, listening to panels on the sci-fi and fantasy community and the impact and importance of an author’s online presence. Don’t worry, I’ll be taking notes, which I’ll share in the Inkshares community forum. 

• I’m also happy to share that Jay Lockwood (author of A Beast Requires) was randomly selected to the win the art giveaway, which I ran for the first 50 readers to preorder. A pack dragon is currently preparing to paddle its way across the Atlantic with Jay’s prize.

• Lastly but not least, I recently completed another author interview, this time with Jim Vines - so if you’d like to hear more of my thoughts on the writing process, have a peek.
  

Thanks for your support. We’re so close to the top 10 and making great progress with funding. I know we can make this happen!

~ Jenny

Hello you. Yes, you! You’re important!

Just wanted to drop an update to announce that Fae Child has 40 readers and 48 copies sold. That’s SO close to 50, guys, I can hardly believe it. This update is going out to 83 followers - if you’re following and haven’t backed the book yet, this is your chance to do so! Or, if you can’t support Fae Child financially, you can tweet about it, or mention it to a friend who really likes books. Or maybe you run an independent bookstore and you want 200 copies for your shelves? No? Well, it was worth a shot. ;)

I have been featured in my first author interview! Check it out here. I talk about my influences, how I got started writing, and of course about Fae Child.

Additionally, I’ve recorded a song with my niece and some of her friends on Smule’s Sing!Karaoke app to help promote the book. It turned out pretty cool, and I’ve stuck it on the Fae Child page as a book trailer of sorts. I may take it down out in a few days, so if you want to see it, go now!

I think that’s it. Oh - I’ve posted another bit of story (the first part of the next chapter) to celebrate reaching 40 readers. I’ll be sending that along to you... now. Enjoy!

Thanks again for everything,

Jane-Holly