Fernando Crôtte recommended The Walls are Closing In
Isolationism to the point of imprisonment, but "the mortar has started to crack." The dark, threatening mood and the hint of revolution and hope for better days are laid out beautifully in the first few sentences. I was drawn powerfully to the story!
The Seclusion
Sixty years after The Seclusion, in which America sealed itself off from the outside world, Patch Collins navigates the panoptic nightmare of a total surveillance state.
Fernando Crôtte followed Entering Darkness
Entering Darkness
An unassuming scientist becomes a target of a powerful and ruthless general who believes he has knowledge of a startling truth that the general will do anything to keep secret. But when his family is threatened, he begins to fight back.
Fernando Crôtte liked an update for The Amaranth Chronicles: Deviant Rising

A year ago yesterday we started this Campaign. Its been a long uphill battle but in the last year we completely rewrote and edited this story, hit our sales goal and shipped the manuscript off to Inkshares. While we wait to hear of a release date I just wanted to thank everyone whose been a part of this since last year. thank you all so much and check out the Inkshares page. We’ve go ahead and thrown a few new Art piece up there!

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    Fernando Crôtte liked an update for Human Resources

    The final days are upon us — there is less than a week left in the Inkshares / Launch Pad crowdfunding competition. On the 16th December (PST, 17th December in Aus) the competition wraps up and we will know who the winners are. Those winners will receive more than just bragging rights, they will benefit from mass production and additional editing / design / marketing resources.



    If you have been planning to pre-order, but haven’t yet, it would be a great help if you did so before the end of the competition.

    It’s been a long campaign, but the finish line is in sight. Thank you for all your support — the book has 350 followers; received more than 500 shares, likes, and comments on Facebook; been tweeted about countless times; and has received 20 recommendations and 10 great reviews. Every share, recommendation, and review has been an enormous help in getting this far — one final push should get us across the line.

    PS: There is more bonus content planned, but the next two instalments will take a bit of work, and they will come out after the end of the competition.

    Thank you all.

    Robert
    https://www.inkshares.com/books/human-resources

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      Fernando Crôtte liked an update for Kingdom of Dreams

      1. 29 Pre-Orders Away From Publication!
      2. Toys For Tots Update
      3. Revised Chapters

      1. 29 Pre-Orders Away From Publication!

      So with about 21 days left in the year-and our campaign-we are 29 pre-orders away from publication. Please keep the orders coming. We are nearly there!

      2. Toys for Tots Update

      My apologies if my post was a bit confusing regarding how this is going to work: I am going to match the dollar amount of every pre-order until December 20th with a personal donation to Toys For Tots. Remember, Kingdom of Dreams is not a complete book at this stage that will be ready in time for this Christmas. 

      So how will this work? For instance, we’ve gotten 11 pre-orders in so far since I started this incentive (awesome!), so I will match the total of those books along with any additional orders that come in and donate a matching gift to Toys For Tots on 12/20/2016. Make sense? I’ll post the donation on the 20th in one of these updates.

      That said, as a bonus gift for the future, if you’d like me to also donate your book or an extra copy or two to Toys For Tots when it is complete sometime next year, feel free to let me know and it’s a done deal. 

      3. Revised Chapters

      The revised Chapter 1 is up. I’ll be sending this out later today to each of you as well. Chapter 2 soon to follow. Please feel free to read, critique, and review. This is a very helpful exercise for your contribution to the book and also encourages new readers to engage with it. 

      Stay well and stay tuned!

      Kevin


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        Fernando Crôtte liked an update for Sorcery for Beginners

        Friends, Readers, and Sorcerers All,

        Two updates this week. First, we broke 300 copies sold! Y’all got me like:


        Second, SORCERY FOR BEGINNERS has been sent to our editor at Inkshares! It is very official and awesome. We’re talking about cover designs and illustrations and other cool stuff. I am very excited to get the editor’s notes and dive into the final re-write in January. 

        Also, we are super-close to hitting number 3 on The List. Only 19 unique orders left to go. Do you know any friends with 10 year-old kids? People who like reading about magic? Breathing human beings who believe in goodness and light? Share the link to our project and see if they’d like to pick up a pre-order. It’s only $10. That’s less than a movie, and they’ll actually be making dreams come true. 

        Thanks again for all your support -

        mh
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          Fernando Crôtte liked an update for The Walls are Closing In

          Thank you to everyone who has followed The Walls are Closing In.

          The book just hit 50 followers, and has been on the site for less than one week!

          As a thank you, I will be providing a randomly-selected follower with a $50 Etsy Gift Card once The Walls are Closing In reaches 100 followers!

          My hope is to launch my Pre-Order campaign in January, and the manuscript is complete and ready to go.
           

          Don’t worry first 50 followers, you will automatically be entered into the drawing. Recipient will be chosen using a random generator. If you have someone who you think would be interested in The Walls are Closing In, please encourage them to follow!

          Though I know winning fifty dollars to spend on unique hand-made holiday gifts is tempting, please only follow if you are actually interested in the book ;)

          Thank you again for your overwhelming support.

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            Fernando Crôtte followed Mirrors
            Mirrors
            A man stumbles across a paranormal global conspiracy while trying to solve the mystery of his abducted wife.
            Fernando Crôtte liked an update for Where the Sun Sets

            It’s been 9 days since I sent my last update, and a lot has happened since then. Remember Nico Rosberg, the F1 driver who trounced Lewis Hamilton in the final race of the season?

            HE RETIRED!

            TOTAL PLOT TWIST! (I called it, by the way.) (Just ask Michael, my husband. He knows that I predict the future.) A new world champion was crowned, he got his cake, and then ate it for all the world to see. Cheers to you, Nico Rosberg. Because I’m eating cake this December, too. 

            Allow me to explain. 

            For those of you that don’t already know: I’m sentimental. With pretty much everything. Case in point, I carry a personal museum of baubles and trinkets with me everywhere I go. Peeking out from my closet is a vast collection of drawings and scraps of paper that people gave me in preschool. Preschool. Which makes be a bona fide sentimental hoarder because I’ve moved a gagillion times since preschool. So it shouldn’t come as a shock that my favourite stories are the ones that have some special, hidden meaning. 

            Where the Sun Sets is one such special story. And a special story needs a special cover. So I decided to launch a contest to find one. I put the book cover contest to my network (not many artists, few professional designers, lots of family that can’t de-friend me) and told myself to be patient. "Draw up a plan, pull the trigger, and trust in the process." Right?

            Sort of. 

            For the past few weeks I’ve been biting my nails, wondering if what I did was the right thing. I am trying to create a product that needs to sell, after all. Worries haunted. What if no one submits a thing? What if I detest them all? (I was more concerned with the first looming question because I’m generally easy to please, and I love a funny story.) 

            The submission period closed on Sunday, December 4. I got 19 submissions, and I love them all! (In fact, I love some them so much that I suspect I’ll soon have dreams of eating cake off of them.) More importantly, knowing that the cover of Where the Sun Sets has been crafted by someone special to me is a huge relief. It’s an incredible feeling. And the reasons each of the entrants shared about why they entered are equally touching. 

            So now it’s Show Time. Literally. I’m showing them to you, and asking that you help me select the one that best fits Where the Sun Sets. Because, frankly speaking, if it were left up to me, I’d choose them all. Which just isn’t practical. 

            You can view the entries and pick one here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/3LXR6CC I believe you’ll find them all to be unique and delightful in their own way. 

            See what I mean?

            Absolutely delightful!

            The voting period ends this Sunday, and I can’t wait to reveal the final cover. That said, the cover will only make it onto a book if I hit my pre-order target. 

            I’m at 180 as I type this, which means I’m 70 pre-orders short! 

            You’re receiving this update because you’ve already put yourself out there for me, and I thank you for it. But I’m not quite there yet. So I ask that you please continue to send me well wishes, and consider recommending or sharing my story with those people you think would find it meaningful. I know it’s a lot to ask (and to keep asking) but every little bit helps and I won’t get there without you. 

            Thank you for your consideration. Thank you for your time. And thank you for your continued support.

            Donna
            (I want to use #ALLTHEBOOKCOVERS!!!)


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