When you’ve lived for centuries, normal takes on a whole new meaning, something new is on the horizon and it will either be the beginning of something exceptional or have their lives crumbling before them.
The moment of truth!
Tonight I put 100 names of those who pre-ordered copies 105-204 of Blood Dawn in a blue wizard's hat and drew one name from it. You can watch a short clip on Vine to see the process if you're curious:
You can't quite see the name (this was my second Vine video to date and I'm still trying to get the knack of balancing out 6 seconds of footage), so I hope you all trust me.
Nonetheless...
It was a DRAGON! Congratulations Lisa Hall, whose dragon name is Lahalazar.
Thank you again to everyone for believing in this book. Stay tuned for more to come, including an exciting announcement about another opportunity as we look ahead to the next milestone.
First off, congratulations to the five winners of the Nerdist competition. Well done to each of you. And super congrats to Welcome to Deadland by Zachary Tyler Linville
and It’s All Fun and Games by Dave Barrett for being selected as Nerdist's first collection novels. Nice job guys!
Now that this really cool contest is over all of us who didn't win are probably tempted to take some time off and lick our wounds. Well Monkey Business says screw that noise. We're not licking anything. We're forging ahead on the long road to 1,000 pre-orders. Now that everybody here is all hunky dory back on the same team and not in competition anymore, lets get on with this business. This Monkey Business.
See what I did there?
I would like to start my post-Nerdist marketing push by asking, what do you guys want? I don't feel great about just pummeling you with requests to order my book. Would you like me to post more of it on the site? Would you like an audio recording? Would you like me to do some more silly sock puppet videos? I'm here to help so if anybody has any requests, thoughts, etc. Let me know. Your thoughts are appreciated!
Having said that, I will include a link to the facebook page for Monkey Business. Please like it, share it, build an empire of monkeys who will pre-order this book into existence. And send me any suggestions you might have to my email below.
Thank you guys so much! Hope you have a great day,
Landon
https://www.facebook.com/landonwrites
landoncrutcher@gmail.com
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
