Hello, Inkshare homies!

Just wanted to extend a HUGE thanks to all of you for your support thus far! The video game contest is chugging along nicely and I couldn’t have done it without your help!

Also, today is June 8th...it’s my BIRTHDAY!!! I’m 29 years young. To be honest, I miss 28. 28 is a nice, round, sexy number, with lots of swirls and curls. 29 is different and jarring; it feels like I’m in the middle of a gunfight and I’m down to one last bullet, with a giant 3-0 looming ominously on the horizon, waiting for me to empty my clip so it can swallow me whole! But regardless, YOU can help make my birthday fantastic my spreading the word about SideScroller to anyone you know who loves reading or video games or reading things ABOUT video games.

Thanks again for your support, everybody, and I’ve got more SideScroller surprises coming soon!

Cheers,

Andrew Fantasia

Yay we’ve reached 25 copies pre-ordered! That’s 10% of the way to Quill :) Thank you all for pre-ordering a copy I am working hard writing this story! I can’t wait to share the rest of Maggie’s adventures with all of you. Please help me out to spread the word and share my novel with others who may enjoy Are You Sure You Want to Quit. I have a special announcement coming up soon so stay tuned!!

Best,

Alisa

Hey! I don’t usually update this often, but couple of pieces of news to share.

First if you like fiction about the dirty underbelly of Hollywood (and who doesn’t) please check out notorious Hollywood columnist Nikki Finke’s site, Hollywooddementia. Why? because she has published my novella Falconer, which is about a nasty piece of work named Gavin Falconer! It is appearing in four parts, with Part 2 up today, but if you follow the link to the site you can catch up on Part 1. It would be cool if you leave a comment on the site as well, preferably saying something nice. Or not! But also so cool is the artwork by John Donald Carlucci that accompanies each installment. He is extremely talented. So go read. Here’s the link:

http://hollywooddementia.com/nikki-finke-fiction-falconer-part-two-by-jason-pomerance/

And now marketing news. In case you missed the current issue of The Malibu Times (what, you don’t have a subscription??) this little piece appears on Page 19. 

Part of Women Like Us is set in Malibu (with most of the rest in Pasadena), so small independent papers in those areas have been targeted and see? The effort pays off. A blitz of small independent bookstores is currently being planned. Hopefully more news on that soon.

Okay that’s it.  Go read Falconer. It’s very different from Women Like Us, and quite frankly it’s not for children, so shoo the kids out of the room!

Yesterday was a great day for Pre-Orders. "Squids In" held 3rd place for a good few hours before the wonderful "In Beta" by Prescott Harvey surged back up the leaderboard while the octopus and I slept. In an effort to win back 3rd place, I asked the octopus to jump on my laptop and hit the social networks to drum up support. I came back to find him doing this...

There is a special circle in hell reserved for Dust2 campers!!!

If you have not already pre-ordered "Squids In", I would really appreciate it if you could. Finishing 3rd is the only way I’m going to get the octopus out of here!

P.S. I have been speaking with some guys over on DeviantArt about drawing a couple of the scenes from my first chapter and what they have been coming back with has been amazeballs so far. "Squids In" is unlikely to morph into a graphic novel but a few drawings here and there won’t hurt. I will share them as and when they are completed.

Matthew