Matt Kaye liked an update for Seven Shards: The Colors of Wine

A mini update!

  • I recently had the pleasure of interviewing the infamous John Robin. We chatted about his epic fantasy, Blood Dawn. Click here to read it!
  • There are now five (5!!) different Syndicates to choose from. Syndicates are a great way to support new authors and projects each month, even if you don’t have the time to peruse and choose the projects yourself. Check them out here!
  • And last, but not least: We already knew this was coming, but as of today, Seven Shards is officially part of the Quill collection!!! Take a look here!


That’s it. Short and sweet!

Goodnight!



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    Matt Kaye liked an update for Trekonomics

    Dear backers, readers and friends of Trekonomics,

    This is the cover of Trekonomics.

    All my gratitude goes to Jennifer Bostic for her amazing design, and to John Powers for his sculpture. Please note that this is not the final design. There will be a few last-minutes tweaks.

    As you may guess from the cover, Prof. Brad DeLong, the great economist and Star Trek fan extraordinaire, is honoring Trekonomics with an original foreword. 

    Let us know what you think! Your feedback is most appreciated.

    In the meantime, with all my thanks,

    Live Long, and Prosper,

    Manu 

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      Matt Kaye liked an update for She Is the End
      Hello, friends new and old! I didn't send an update last week because I'm trying to finish editing my book (yikes) and it is a slow (gosh) and steady (sheesh) process (no).  It's going to be great! (SOB SOB.)

      I keep accidentally offering to help with other stuff, though. It's a great way to procrastinate! (ARGH!)

      FIRST, I will now raffle off the original panel for the graphic novel page I'm doing for Amanda Orneck's Deus Hex Machina...

      The winner is....

      Matt Kaye! Congratulations!

      SECOND, you need to all watch Amanda's promo video for DHM because there's an ALTERNATE REALITY GAME you HAVE TO PLAY. It is SO FUN, and by fun I mean super-frustrating but very satisfying to finish. Joe Terzieva and I worked on it separately, then when we both got stuck we worked on it together for part of a day and we FIGURED IT OUT!

      You have to follow the clues and search through the shadowy reaches of the internet to save a scientist who has been sucked into the Grid!!! Go! DO IT!

      THIRD, I joined a syndicate! Janna Grace created one for Strong Female Characters (strongly-written characters, not just tough characters, of course) and you know how much I love those. I just had to join. Check it out!!

      FOURTH, if you are interested in any sort of, shall we say, tabletop gaming... stay tuned. John Robin, Joe Terzieva and I are working on something for Blood Dawn that you might want to be a part of....

      FIFTH, JF Dubeau's The Life Engineered is being released March 1st!! If you haven't bought his book yet, that's actually a good thing - because we're doing an Amazon order drive on the day of the launch! This will hopefully get his book to debut on a top 10 list and get him more exposure, which is always good.

      His book has already been mentioned on io9.com and it's getting really good reviews, so if you like robots, give it a chance and ORDER IT ON MARCH 1st!

      SIXTH, AND FINALLY, I am going into deep editing mode for the next month. I will be doing little "Writer's Log" updates periodically, but otherwise I'll be going internet-silent until I finish my manuscript.

      (We'll see how that goes.)


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        Matt Kaye liked an update for Rune of the Apprentice

         Hello Everyone! 

        I have some great news! RUNE's schedule and publication date has just been finalized! Although there are many deliverables on RUNE's production timeline (publishing and marketing a book is a MASSIVE undertaking), the one readers will be most interested in is:

        RUNE OF THE APPRENTICE will be published on November 1st, 2016!

        Additional good news is that YOU will be getting your copies before this date AND we will also be able to have special early release copies for New York Comic-Con, too! We don’t know the exact date books will be shipped to you, but I’ll keep you posted!

        Even though you will be getting you books before November, I know this is still a long way out. Reading this, I’m sure you are feeling the same emotion I initially felt upon hearing the news: disappointment that RUNE will not be published sooner like originally planned. Despite that initial feeling, as I work more closely with both Inkshares and Girl Friday Productions, and see the tremendous amount of work being put into RUNE, that disappointment has been transformed into appreciation and gratitude. While I know you do not see this hard work first hand, I will do my best to keep you updated on our progress so you can see all we are doing to polish RUNE into printed perfection—which will hopefully help curb your disappointment, even if only a little.

        I can go on and on about this and am happy to answer any questions over at @StoneJamison, or down below in the comments, however, I want to keep this update quick so as to not fill up your inbox. Although there are MANY milestones ahead, the next important steps are Cover Design and Developmental Edits!

        Cover: I have a call later today where the RUNE team will be solidifying our collective vision for the cover so the designer can begin to move forward with samples for review and selection. There are usually three rounds to this process. The early samples will focus on options of several different directions and the later rounds will polish that vision, bringing it into a finalized physical form. The designer’s previous work is fantastic and I am very excited to see what he produces. I will keep you all updated as we progress!

        Developmental Edits: Editing a 500+ page Fantasy/Sci-Fi epic is no small feat. Although RUNE has already had several rounds of professional editing, there is always ways to make a novel of this magnitude more engaging, engrossing, and awe-inspiring! I have been tremendously pleased with the pre- Girl Friday Productions edits, and am now very excited to see their continued polish added to RUNE. The next round of Developmental edits should be done by the end of next month, and then wrapped up by the end of March with copy editing and proofreading to follow in the months to come.

        As I said, there are many more milestones after that (I have not even gotten started on marketing!) but for now I’ll end this update. The road to publication is a long one, however, I am so very excited to have you all along for the ride. RUNE OF THE APPRENTICE is going to enliven the hearts and minds of readers across the globe, and it warms MY heart knowing that you all are here to partake in this EPIC journey!

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          Matt Kaye liked an update for The Bully Book

          Background about me... and a little advice on how to get attention of an agent or publisher

          After 4yrs I published my first book with an imprint that had been bought out with a major publisher. I had over 100 rejections from agents and publishers, but managed to finally get a publisher in a round-about way.

          Because I was writing a memoir based on my line of work, I approached the biggest nursing union in the world that has a weekly magazine, and gave them a copy of one of my rejection letters. The rejection letter said the following...

          '...no one wants to read about a nurse...no one will buy a book about a nurse...'

          Naturally this seriously pissed off the nurses at the union, and they replied with the following...

          '...everyone knows a nurse...everyone like nurses...and everyone wants to read about nurses...we're happy to read your work.'

          They read it and loved it, and recommended me to a contact in the publishing business.

          I now have 2 books published and around 200,000 sales later (majority of them ebook, although was on UK airport shelves and in WHSmith) but the imprint has closed and the overseeing major publisher will not even look at my work without getting an agent.

          I can't even get an agent with such a history of sales and 2 books out. In fact, when I had my first contract offer, I approached a dozen agents, and only 1 was interested in taking me on, even with a guaranteed contract. Some even said to me that they had not heard of anyone getting a major publisher without an agent, and could not tell me how they could be of benefit to me.

          I also learned that when your imprint closes, and the overseeing publisher takes over, they don't bother with promotion. So they own the rights to my 2nd book, while I get left with a lot less input than my first book.

          I tried discussing this with them, and they ignored my email.

          So, here I am, trying not to be bitter. But my current project 'the Bully book' is something I truly feel could be  huge. I work with teenagers, and they cannot put it down. 

          So I'm a bit nervous about inkshares, not because of anything they've done, but I have very little trust left in any part of the whole publishing business. But what I have found on this site so far is encouraging, and that is genuine people.

          So thanks for your kind words so far. I will get round to reading more of the books I have followed, but will take bit of time is all.
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            Matt Kaye liked an update for Nowhere Else I Want to Be

            By now you will have received your notification that "Nowhere Else I Want to Be" has reached the 750 pre-order mark and is in production. 

            Whew.

            Thank you to all of you who pre-ordered this memoir, who either believed in me or the story or the women I write about enough to take a chance.

            You can still pre-order. There is no longer a ten-book limit, and bulk orders over five cost $10.00 per book instead of $14.99.

            The January 2016 promotion is still on: pre-order this month and you'll receive a gift mug when the book publishes.

            Thanks again! We're on our way. 

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              An African-American teenager begins life anew in the suburbs. But nightmares of the past and events of the present may prevent him from wanting to live it to the fullest.
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