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What an amazing response from everyone thus far! I greatly appreciate it. The entire story is mapped out, characters are falling in line, themes are in place...now I just have to make it all as enjoyable in type as it is in my head...

But I wanted to thank you all for the WONDERFUL support, and remind the 19 or you who have invested thus far that you can have your name or any name you wish appear within the story...just send it to me, and it shall be done (this is good for the first 50 readers)! I’ve already had three of you donate names, and I thank you for that. This is certainly nothing you MUST do, but I hope that it would personalize the reading experience for you. So...LET ME KNOW IF YOU WANT TO BE IN MY BOOK!

Also, I have posted a video about the process of this contest, and I have many terrific people sharing it already. Thank you for that. I love you. Please feel free to share and to spread the word. Your support is amazing, and I want to recognize you early investors, but the book must pass 250 preorders in order to get published, so any casual mention to a friend counts and makes my grinch heart grow three sizes.

Thank you for your support, sorry for bugging you, but I’m getting excited. Off to writing and updating the BIG WALL. (It’s my planning wall in my basement, I wish I could put a picture up here for you to see.)

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Matt Kaye liked the forum thread, Welcome Nerdist Authors!!!

Hey everyone! I’m pretty pumped for this contest. I’ve never actually entered anything like this before, so I’m interested to see how it goes/how everything plays out. Good luck to everyone (:

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Matt Kaye liked the forum thread, Welcome Nerdist Authors!!!

Hello everyone thanks for inviting me to the conversation! I am so excited to participate in this. I have been writing in a vacuum for quite a while now so I am very pumped to get some things out into the world. I am very new to the process of getting the word out about my work so any suggestions from folks with some experience in these areas would be greatly appreciated.

Good luck everybody!

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Matt Kaye liked the forum thread, Welcome Nerdist Authors!!!

@Rhett Pennell Well, I can answer for @Joseph Asphahani and myself: Pretty much every waking moment was spent working on SOME facet of the contest. Everything from working on covers, updates, pouring over content, and actual selling.

If nothing else, the contest forces you to get everything in gear pretty fast and really polish up everything that ’surrounds’ the book. Pitch Lines, Synopsis, etc etc...

I’ll be honest, I’m sort of vicariously looking forward to watching the contest from afar this time while I sit back and read all the entries.

Good luck everyone!

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Matt Kaye liked the forum thread, Welcome Nerdist Authors!!!

Hi everyone! Like a lot of folks, this is my first time doing this kind of thing.

Right now, my brain’s still kind of spinning from everything, but I just wanted to stop in and say good luck to the rest of the participants, and give thanks to the veteran players for their advice.

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Matt Kaye liked the forum thread, Welcome Nerdist Authors!!!

Good advice from @Joseph Asphahani . I find that Josephs are a pretty clever bunch. The contest will be a killer, but the stakes are high. Submit your book to the jaggy cliffs of traditional publishing, the ocean self-publishing, or give your all for a guaranteed publication with a top-tier support group, which is right for you? The contest is a chance of a lifetime, and I feel incredibly lucky to have been part of one.

If you can, get a team together. I had two people working for me. Be aggressive. Unless you are a wild success and can blast all the way to 750 (it has happened before,) it will be a long and challenging path. Hard as it may be, if you consider it against the other publishing options and the benefits of each, it is probably the shortest.

Work hard, but care for yourself, your well-being, take care of your family, and for God sake keep them in the loop! Don’t do this alone if you can help it. Writing can be solitary; pitching doesn’t have to be.

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Matt Kaye liked the forum thread, Welcome Nerdist Authors!!!

Thanks for the advice everyone! I wrote the contest up for GeekDad.com and decided to participate and see what the Inkshares model has to offer (I’ve gone one round each on the Indie and self-publishing models).

Sadly, I didn’t have a Space Opera ready to go; but I have a character and plotline that I’m pretty excited about and am determined to hack out a rough draft of in the next month and a half.

I guess my biggest question is - should I even be pitching at this point? From poking around, it seems that most authors that are participating already have well-vetted manuscripts that they’re using for the contest.

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