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Another good catch. Will look into this one as well
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    No sorries, just let me clean up this random moisture that's accumulate in my eyes somehow...

    Honestly I was just talking with my husband about how I think I've stalled on all the possible channels for funding on this project.  I've reached out to the last 20 prospects on my list and will keep pinging until I get a definitive answer, but all we can come up with is posting fliers in libraries, but that's more of a passive shot in the dark.  I was just saying to him this might be my funding limit -- 43 copies.  I mean that's more than Shadow of the Owl got, so that's a success in itself.

    I tried to leverage a massive facebook group I'm in called Mamageeks, but they must have seen through my proxy self-promotion through a friend because there was no response, like at all to the post.  These wre the people that bout like 400 copies of SotO the first weekend, but that might have been because they were free and I was complaining about how my mother wouldn't read the book so they were jumping to my defense.

    I did post on reddit, but self-promotion has never been successful in my book (or for my book even): https://www.reddit.com/r/writing/comments/3vqqam/check_in_selfpromotion_and_off_topic_discussion/cxzwe0s

    I thought of using a Twitch stream -- I did this during my last day of nanowrimo and although the quality of the writing suffered a bit since I had an audience, it was kinda fun to stream and write at the same time.

    But ultimately all these avenues are passive.  The person who I wish I could emulate in terms of preorder strategies is @Jamison Stone .  He managed to reach out into the community and pull hundreds of preorders in just days.  It's a real shame that this contest ends mid January, because I have a table at Chattacon where I could have sold preorders, but that's the last week in January.  

    @A.C. Weston Your page keeps coming up because Art really wants to collaborate on the graphic novel with you. He asks me like daily about this hehe that's how excited he is about the idea.  

    Mylanta, I'm just so darn HONORED that you all think this much of the book! 
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      I believe this thread has an answer:

        YES IT MAKES A LOT OF SENSE TO ADD IMAGES TO THREADS


       
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      People who have liked this comment in the forum thread, Does it make sense to add images within threads?

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          I was inspired by science. And an angel. A science-angel. With robots.
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            (I ended up deleting my joke answer and writing a real one. Sorry, @JF Dubeau!)

            Writing is one of the ways I interpret life. I need it to help me figure out how to exist in a world filled with horrible things and still feel hope. I had your garden-variety shitty childhood, and stories were always an escape - both reading and writing them helped me make it to adulthood.

            I'm not interested in convincing comfortable people how "dark and gritty" life can really be. Those kinds of stories are fine for whoever wants to read and write them, but a lot of us already know. We need to know whether or not the darkness and grit are worth it.

            Stories help me survive, and I like to think maybe someday something I write could help someone else survive, too.

            As for this book, I like adventure and angst and love and heroics, and I don't just want to consume these kinds of stories; I want to create them.

            In the most general sense, I'm working out my understanding of how justice and mercy might exist in tension in a world where everyone is flawed, and everyone wants forgiveness. My faith as a Christian informs my exploration of justice and mercy, but I'm not writing an allegory or trying to indoctrinate anyone. (Unless you count writing multiple complex, realistic women as feminist indoctrination, in which case... yeah.)

            I'm interested in exploring service, humility, and self-sacrifice as the foundations of leadership.

            I'm interested in exploring power and injustice, recovery from trauma, and the meaning of beauty.

            I'm interested in exploring community versus the individual, identity formation, and the definition of family.

            Also, I want to make spaceships explode!
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                Its Tuesday and that means another blog post.  This time I'm giving you a peek both into another continent on Pentaz' world which has been cut off by a jagged wall of sky high fire from the rest of the world since the Demon Gods' Invasion, and just how horrible a writer I was in high school.  Its a narrative poem I wrote in high school and have never once got around to editing and polishing.  All of the links in this update lead you to it.  Read it and laugh at how awful I used to be, then be thankful I got better.

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