Howdy! Howdy!
I know I’ve been quiet for the last week and it must be killing you to know what I’ve been up to. I’ll come clean, I’ve been moving. That’s right, I picked up and headed out of the proverbial Dodge. In so doing, I managed to digitally strand myself for the last few days.
After a long day of packing, I didn’t rest. I carried on writing because I knew we needed to collectively find the reason for the strange similarities between historic human figures and the people surrounding Hero Shard. I have several partial chapters, written in broken sentences and incomplete thoughts.
I would say more but my time is limited. The chapters will be incoming soon! The connection here is unstable... I have to cut this short. We will be seeing more of our heroes soon. Until next time, thanks for reading.
It’s been a long time, but I honestly didn’t have much to say beyond "still hammering at a keyboard!" With my pre-order restart date not coming up for a while, I kept writing updates and never posting, feeling guilty about the lack of real content. So this time, I’m writing this as I go and forget thinking ahead.
There are some minor changes to the main Blurred Weaponry content. I uploaded "the version I’m going to send to an editor" for Chapters 1 (both separated scenes) and Chapter 2. Plus I uploaded Chapter 3 and sent it out ahead of time!
I like the direction of this introduction to the story, as the tragedy at the very start seemed sadly understated in the old manuscript. If you haven’t read that stuff, please do.Tell me what you think, highlight excerpts, and so on. At most I’ll upload two more chapters, especially since Chapter 5 features one of my favorite conversations in the whole book, so I gotta put that out somewhere.
I’ve also been working on tons of extras that I’ll reveal soon. To put some heat under my butt to get it done and stop being lazy about it, I’ll post a small schedule now!
June 17th: Some Artwork!
July 1st: More Artwork!
July 15th: Sending the manuscript to my editor (finally!) Also, new YouTube clip. Also, going to do more work on a prequel novella and my next project, Sinopia Property Management.
August 5th: Either some artwork from a talented artist or a new YouTube clip.
There, now I have to do all that. I’ll also announce a date for the pre-order restart as soon as I can, but my plans include having a lot of money saved up, so that date could go a week ahead or late, and announcing it now would be a hassle. It’s a comin’, though, for sure.
Thanks so much to those that follow, and I promise to be way more involved in paying attention to Inkshares updates and stuff from now on!
-Michael Valdez
PS: And thanks to Amanda Orneck for sending a copy of Shadow of the Owl (click that title to order from Amazon!) as a raffle prize for ordering her Inkshares project Deus Hex Machina. Congrats on the Quill numbers :)
Hey, and Happy Friday!
Somebody went to the Women Like Us Amazon page and ordered 5 copies yesterday! Here, take a look:
Not sure who did that, but I would thank that person most heartily. Okay, sure, not 500 orders, but you gotta start somewhere, right?
Production of the book continues toward that July 26th publish date, which is extremely exciting. In fact cover design is mostly complete, and there will be two blurbs on the back . Here’s a preview:
"If you have parents, if you have kids, if you have a heart, Women Like Us is the book for you. It’s like a great recipe for life."
This is from author Charles Dickinson, who wrote a novel called The Widows’ Adventures. I fell in love with this book from page one, and hopefully one day soon there’s going to be a movie version of it (full disclosure: I adapted the book and will co-produce the movie), but do yourself a favor if you love to read and get a copy. You too, I bet, will fall in love with Ina and Helene, two ladies who go on a kind of road-trip you haven’t seen before. Or look into one of Charles’ other books like A Shortcut in Time, or A Family in Time. Here’s a link to The Widows’ Adventures:
Here’s the second blurb:
"Women Like Us is a wonderful and true examination of deep, real human emotion."
This one comes from Joseph Asphahani, whose novel The Animal In Man, a Sword & Laser contest winner, is coming soon from Inkshares. If you haven’t pre-ordered a copy, consider doing so. Here’s a link:
https://www.inkshares.com/books/the-animal-in-man-7699
Speaking of other Inkshares books, there’s a Father’s Day sale going on -- there’s 50-75% off some cool books, so check that out. I can especially recommend director Jake Bender’s wonderful The Elephant in the Room, and Landon Crutcher’s Monkey Business, which is a super trippy head-trip of a book!
So that’s it for now. Stay tuned as publish day approaches because there will be more news to share about the book. And, as always, thanks everybody for the support.
