I don’t usually do two updates in one day but...
WE FUNDED!
So let me make something clear: I use the term ’we’ when talking about this campaign because while I write the book, it’s your support and encouragement that makes it happen. These aren’t empty words meant to artificially include you and make you feel like part of the process. The whole point of Inkshares is that this is a community effort. A symbiotic endeavour between reader and writer to help create works of fiction and bring them to the public.
There are a lot of people who have gone above and beyond for this to happen and I’d like to highlight at least three that can benefit immediately from your support:
John Robin, the author of Blood Dawn, spearheaded community efforts to rally people together after I called for help from fellow authors. John is a hard working writer and a helluva guy. Check out Blood Dawn and support it.
Andre Brun, my CEGEP buddy and author of Lies & Deception campaigned for me harder than I could campaign for myself. He leveraged his own book and his salesmanship skills to gather a ton of pre-orders and get A God in the Shed in front of many new pairs of eyes. Lies & Deception is a terrifyingly ambitious book that deserves your attention. Check it out.
Paul Inman, my cohost on WriteBrain and author of Ageless also lent a hand and was a big part of the community, leveraging the release of his own book to help get visibility for A God in the Shed. Check out Ageless, I read it and thoroughly enjoyed it.
Finally, let me plug my buddy Brian Guthrie who was a great help and is currently participating in the Geek & Sundry Hard SciFi contest on Inkshares. Check out his book After Man and support it with all your heart (and pre-orders).
More soon as thing develop and, as promised:
JF
Happy Friday!
Hope you’re all doing well and fine and all that. Been a busy week and looking forward to a busier weekend! Tomorrow is the "friends and family" screening party for the independent film I wrote and directed: Out There. It’s about an introvert who applies to live on Mars. It was a fun time shooting it and I’m looking forward to watching it tomorrow night!
Back to Cape’s Side Bay, we’ve passed 70 pre-orders and that is AWESOME!
Tomorrow at the screening we will be giving some friends and family mugs. Do you know what goes well with a good book? A mug of coffee, or tea, or whatever you feel you want to put in it. I want to give some away to you all!
But I can’t, there are too many of you. So... All previous orders will be in a raffle for an OUT THERE mug, then we will do a raffle after the next 10 pre-orders, then a raffle after the next 15.
Please keep sharing and spreading the word of Cape’s Side Bay! Things are going very well and I’m getting genuinely excited... which is rare for me. I promise.
And last but definitely not least, as of this writing J.F Dubeau’s A GOD IN THE SHED is just over 100 pre-orders from FULL PUBLICATION! Any help would be great, it’s a terrific read. I ordered mine! It’s great horror/fantasy. You will not be disappointed.
Enjoy your weekend!
James