Leah, you made order #300! I'm so excited!
This milestone snuck up on me, I gotta say. Leah is going to help me organize my social media presence and, er, life. She is brilliant and amazing.Thank you, Leah!
To celebrate, why not do a giveaway?
The next 10 readers (you don't have to be new - you can order another copy) will receive a 5x7 postcard print of this illustration I did when I was bored one time:
Busy, Busy Alien!
Wow. I don't even know what all to say other than thank you all so much and I'm blown away by this entire experience.
The Nerdist Collection Contest wrapped up, and Welcome To Deadland finished out in first place, met the pre-order goal, AND was selected by The Nerdist for their collection! When I found out my jaw dropped and I was overcome with shock and excitement. I never would have reached these amazing goals and opportunities if it hadn't been for each and every single one of my readers. Family, friends (both old and new), fellow authors, and everyone that showed me and Welcome To Deadland support, this is all because of you!
The journey to bring the book to your hands is far from over, I'm both nervous and excited to see what the future holds and I can't wait until each of you are able to hold and read a copy for yourself.
Thank you to InkShares and thank you Nerdist, without all of you this opportunity wouldn't have presented itself to all of us.
One day soon you will all be graciously welcomed through the gates of Deadland.
-Zac
Quick update…yes, the contest is over. No we didn’t win. Actually, I’m not even sure where we placed cause they pulled everything but the top 5 down…but with 30 minutes left in the contest we were at 16. That’s out of more than 355 entries…which is insane.
We’re now off to option 2…we need at least 750 books pre-ordered to get the ebook published (1,000 to do a physical book). So keep at it! Thank you all for your amazing support…this has been an incredible ride so far!
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Fellow author and growing friend, Steve Soldwedel has put me to shame, so I'm going to follow his lead.
In the last hour of the contest, or any time before their 1,000 pre-order deadlines, if you have extra credits lying around or you just want to support good writing, let me recommend my favorites:
Friends! Thank you so much for all your wonderful support throughout the Nerdist Sci-Fi/Fantasy contest. At the end of the day, The Fable Hunt came in 9th with 367 individual readers pre-ordering a copy, and you are one of the great people who helped me get there.
The next step is a bit more daunting, but I'm feeling motivated again now that this deadline has passed. I have until November 17th to presell 505 more copies of the book to guarantee publication.
You'll hear from me less frequently now as I'm going to be focusing on writing and advertising via social media rather than updating all the time through Inkshares, but I promise to keep you up to date on milestone!
And the basic ask remains - if you know someone super passionate about books, nerdy stuff or crowdfunding, definitely tell them to come order a copy of The Fable Hunt. I'm pretty darn proud to be the only girl in the Top 10 of the contest, and now I'm going to focus on actually pre-selling enough copies to make this book a real physical thing you can hold in your hands.
In closing, check out the awesome drawing of Learid that my friend Jay Lugo created. I love getting a chance to see what my friends absorb from the words I write.
Peace out awesome folks. I'm back to writing!
Rachael