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I sent this out to my blog followers last week - but I thought you guys might enjoy it as well. For new travelers visiting the setting of Asteroid Made of Dragons.

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    Joseph Terzieva liked an update for Deus Hex Machina

    Happy Monday everyone!

    I wanted to take a moment to give you a bit of a status report on DHM.  

    1. Chapter One is finished, unexpectedly.  I had started writing scenes and realized, once I finished them, that they naturally ended our chapter on a great intriguing note.  It's available in its entirety on the Inkshares page, and I would love it if you read it and let me know what you think.  

    2. To date, no one has figured out the DHM ARG.  We have a couple of people playing, but no one has crossed the finish line.  The clues start with the book trailer I posted a while back.  Will you be the first to finish the game and save Timble Ada?

    3. Here's some general math on how the campaign is going: We are 2 orders away from our next raffle, 45 orders from fifth place, 92 orders from 2nd, and 182 orders from 250 -- which is my goal. The road is long, and the chances for winning dim, I have to be honest.  I felt really good seeing all the people who came on board this weekend - 10 orders in just two days! - until I saw that the other guys are getting dozens of orders per day. That knocks the winds out of my sails a bit, I must admit.

    HOWEVER, there are 11 days, and I plan on working on this until January 16th. I also have a contingency in case this doesn't pan out, the Sword & Laser contest I mean. I believe in Deus Hex Machina, I see it being a successful book read by thousands of people.  I would like those thousands of people to read it with an Inkshares label on the back, but even if that does not happen, I will be working to make sure it is published properly.

    You can help!

    If you believe in this book as much as I do, there are things you can do to help.  You can share DHM on your own Inkshares updates, should you be an Inkshares author.  If anyone out there wants to work on a cross promotion with me, I would be more than happy to help.

    Anyone who is on the fence, intending on ordering but hasn't yet, please make the plunge and order today. Isidore and Dax need your help.

    Even if you are not an Inkshares author (or heck, even if you are), you can still help push DHM into the top three. All you have to do is reach out to three of your friends and ask them to order.  Send them to this Facebook post on instructions how to order the book for free. 

    What I am doing:

    I am continuing to write Chapter 2. This 366 days of writing is exhilerating. I should be getting to Dax soon. 

    I am reaching out to everyone I know, something I did not do with Shadow of the Owl. That's how much I believe in this book -- I'm facing my social anxiety to ensure that DHM wins this contest. 

    Phew, that was longer than I expected.  Guess it's not such a quick update after all!

    Have a great Monday!

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      Hey, peoples. This is a long update, but it’s also the last one I’ll be doing for quite some time, so bear / bare / beer with me.

      So, I’m going to do something that seems drastic, but is in fact passion-forward (you like that? Off the dome, right there). I’m going to flat out delete chapters 1-3 (I’ll save them somewhere obviously, and maybe come back to that content for other stories). The result will be several thousand words will vanish, to be replaced by stronger pacing in a shorter, page-turning sequence of humor, violence, world-building, and character development. This is going to be baller, y’all.

      The "New Chapter 1" (second draft) is up now and linked right here. Click on this hot underlined segment!

      Thanks to Amanda Orneck for pointing some of that stuff out as problematic. Honestly, I’ve literally been begging for feedback for months and months, and so few people bothered to say a word that I wasn’t sure what was going on. The clips on my page until today were scenes that were in order, though from different chapters. I guess since no one read the original stuff, I should have been explicit about it (a dumb mistake, but it's whatever at this point).

      The new content, in all honestly, is the way the book was about three years ago. Writing in a vacuum with no one to tell you if something works means it took a LONG time to get things right, and I kept making bad decisions and adding unnecessary beats. This last fixer-upper draft is going to be the best writing I’ve ever done by far. I'll update again in a month or so with "New Chapter 2" and that may be all that goes up. If I can't hook people that quickly, I don't deserve the sales.


      And, speaking of getting things right, I have secured an editor. It’s been a while of me searching and having editors I sent samples to recommend insane things like changing character names (in a friggin’ sci-fi / fantasy setting where names might be nonsense), to splitting the book into two or three so they can siphon more money from me. No thanks. I found someone whose work on a sample made me smile and nod my head at the recommended changes. How invigorating!

      I’m ultra-excited to finish a sixth draft in January and send it out to a professional so he can polish my book to a bright shine at last.

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      Lastly, DON’T PRE-ORDER BLURRED WEAPONRY! Seriously, don’t, not even out of pity. This campaign has failed miserably. I have tried to get family involved, no one cared. I tried to appeal to the cheapness of people, no one cared. I made an informative poster about how to get the credits to buy my book for free in five minutes, and no one even gave me more than the few seconds it took to not bother. So f*** it. If I gotta do this, I’m gonna go H.A.M. I don’t give up easily, and anger at how incredibly unsupportive people in real life have been compared to strangers has only given me a fuel source.

      After this campaign ends in a sad little fizzle, the countdown begins. I’m going to do a cannonball from a high roof into a deep pool and no one will miss the splash. I’m not telling anyone outside Inkshares until just before launch, and then it’s on. ON!

      I’ll be on Inkshares first for everything I do after that, because I love the prospects it offers. I like YOU people out there reading or skimming through this update. You've given me more hope and faith in writing that you can imagine. I will support the Inkshares community by buying books, writing reviews on a regular basis, and recommending whatever I feel like.

      Keep following, because I’m not going anywhere. If a comedian bombs on stage, he gets back on stage – that’s when you know he feels the call. I haven’t failed with this first campaign, I’ve gotten smarter. I feel the call.
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        Joseph Terzieva liked an update for Deus Hex Machina

        We did it! We hit 70 orders!  Time for the next raffle! *Cracks knuckles and pulls out the random number generator.*

        Congrats to...Joe Terzieva!  You've won a signed copy of Shadow of the Owl!

        We had six orders today, so that's only two more until we break my daily record for most orders.  Can we do it before midnight?  If so I'll raffle off another book as a reward to all you nice folks who have supported DHM.

        And I'm making a slight change to the next raffle and those going forward: Since the Sword & Laser The Sequel contest runs off of unique orders, I figure it's a good idea to run my raffle that way.  So I will do my next drawing at 70 backers, and then the next at 80.  That's only six people away, which is all the better for those of you who have already backed.  It means you get another shot at a signed book that much sooner.

        If you know anyone who would enjoy the book please share Deus Hex Machina with them.

        Thanks and I hope to be talking to you again real soon! 


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          Joseph Terzieva liked an update for Ageless

          Hey guys! Happy New Year! Quick update! 

          AGELESS HITS SHELVES ON MAY 3rd! 

          Developmental edits - 👍🏻

          Cover design - 👍🏻

          Copy edits - 👍🏻

          Interior design - 👍🏻

          Just a bit more to go, mostly approvals and marketing stuff! 

          If you follow me on any social media (Twitter and Instagram @PaulInmanSC), I will be posting some quotes from Ageless periodically.

          I hope your 2016 is awesome! I know mine will be! 

          Cheers! 

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