Hello friends!
(Don't feel like reading all this? Just go to this link for the important part.)
I remain impressed and grateful for your support. Even if you’re just following me to keep track of what’s going on, I appreciate your presence. But, what is going on?
I’m sending personalized emails to followers and supporters of my other book, ‘The Life Engineered’ to ask them to support ‘A God in the Shed’. It’s fun but time consuming and doesn’t leave me much time to create things that might be entertaining for supporters. Thankfully, this awesome little community we’ve formed amongst the participants to this contest have my back.
Paul Inman, fellow winner of the Sword & Laser contest, author of the upcoming book ‘Ageless’ and currently funding ‘Motor City Chronicles’ surprised me with this awesome voice over of the prologue to ‘A God in the Shed’. Have a listen. It’s incredible. He absolutely nails the tone of the narration, conveying perfectly the sad, detached emotion of the scene.
I think if I take anything away from this contest it will be how much we are now so much more than individual writers trying to break into an insular and increasingly political industry. We are now a burgeoning community of fellow authors supporting each other in our desire to create worlds and tell stories. The lesson of the first contest, how these people with whom I’m competing today are my contemporaries and colleagues of tomorrow has permeated the consciousness of most of the participants. We all want to win the contest but we also all want each other to get published and that’s amazing. Crowdfunding depends on community for its lifeblood and to see this forming in real time is a fantastic experience.
I’d love to think my initial blog posts about working with each other have something to do with it but the truth is that this is something in the very nature of the people involved. My initial plea for mutual support was less a motivator than an observation of an inevitable truth; we are all in this together.
Have you pre-ordered ‘A God in the Shed’ yet? If not, please consider doing so. If Paul’s narration doesn’t convince you then at least go pre-order ‘Ageless’ and/or ‘Motor City Chronicles’ to reward the man for his amazing work.
Thanks Paul.
Thank you everyone for your support.
JF
Prologue
Regrets are the instruments by which we learn. We tend not to repeat those things we regret. A remorse, I think, is a much deeper thing. I tend not to dwell on regrets. For all the pain they’ve caused me, they have allowed me to grow and become a better man, sometimes despite myself. I regret how I treated my first love, but it taught me how to better live with my wife. I regret not working very hard in school, but now I know to apply myself in my work. I feel bad about the thin. . .
Prologue
Regrets are the instruments by which we learn. We tend not to repeat those things we regret. A remorse, I think, is a much deeper thing. I tend not to dwell on regrets. For all the pain they’ve caused me, they have allowed me to grow and become a better man, sometimes despite myself. I regret how I treated my first love, but it taught me how to better live with my wife. I regret not working very hard in school, but now I know to apply myself in my work. I feel bad about the thin. . .
Hey guys, I've got something cool to share.
I'm pleased to share with you all an audio recording of the opening chapter of Blood Dawn, read by Inkshares' own Paul Inman -- Sword and Laser Contest winner and author of Ageless.
Paul surprised me this morning with an email linking me to his recording, which he told me he had a lot of fun making, and he even went to the extra effort of creating a YouTube page for the reading so that I could share it.
You can listen to it here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Fpb70AkLFk
Paul did a fantastic job! I have read my writing aloud, but there is something surreal about hearing someone else read it. I hope you all enjoy it and please click like if you do, and leave a comment if you feel so inclined.
For those of you not familiar with Paul's work, go on and check it out. Paul's book Ageless is now in production. Here's a bit about it:
(Click the cover to go on over to Paul's Inkshares page)
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Alessandra has spent her extraordinarily long life in hiding because she is unlike anyone else. She has a secret that could change the world. Buried somewhere in her genetic code is the key to extended life, possibly immortality.
After being experimented on by as a child, Aless will do whatever it takes to keep herself hidden from Special Agent Mark Richards of the CIA; a man anxious for retribution after the murder of a loved one.
With eight decades of basically being alone and on the run, can she come to trust Grey Chapman, a new ally, or has she finally grown tired of running?
If you could live forever, would it be worth it?
Ageless, the debut novel by Paul Inman, is a science fiction thrill ride, filmic in nature, that takes you on a tragic, nonlinear journey across the past, present, and future.
I am excited to read Ageless! I've ordered my copy. If you're wanting to get on board, then here's the link:
https://www.inkshares.com/projects/ageless
Paul is also writing another book called Motor City Chronicles, about the struggles of a 17-year-old orphan in nuclear-war-torn 2030 -- an orphan who holds an ancient secret that might restore balance to the wounded Earth.
Check out our here:
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