That is an excellent opening line. Yes.

A big thank you to all the new people that have followed Child of Secrets--I look forward to reading your comments as you get to know my story! An especially big thank you to Karen Kenyon (author of The Legend of Madog) and Rick Heinz (author of The Seventh Age: Dawn) for their positive recommendation and review, respectively, and a gigantic, shiny, shooting-star thank you to Karen for being the first person to pre-order Child of Secrets! Thank you so much for spreading the word about this story!

My plan for this week is to keep spreading the word about this book, both on Inkshares and social media, while tweaking a few things in the writing. I’ll plan to update any changes all at once, on Saturday. I’m also looking for some new cover art, which I’ll hopefully have by Friday.

Finally, I’m going to be spending time figuring out some good incentives for following, recommending, and pre-ordering. I’m not entirely sure what those might be at this point, but I’m determined to come up with something. In the meantime, I would love to see more comments and recommendations! Thank you all again for following!

I understand that this should have been noted before the contest began. But by giving those authors that contributed to the Nerdist contest with Too Many Controllers and won a contest already a free pass this go around to enter this one - it kinda feels like this contest is already over and somewhat pointless to enter lol.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m still going to enter, but Rick Heinz(First place) already has almost 40 preorders and people are already declaring him the hands-down favorite.

Andre Bun(2nd place) already has 24 preorders - also part of the Inkvengers squad and going strong.

The same can be said about Thomas J. Arnold in third place with Exile, Magus - also was a part of that collaboration.

That means the only qualifying spots are already being dominated to the point of practically being run-aways and the contest is only a day old. It’s a bit daunting for new writers trying to get their fantasy book published to already be that far behind on day 2 due to their(obviously potent) following from the last contest.

I wish nothing but the best and a lot of success for all of the Inkvengers - but with the following they seem to have on this site alone, I’m not sure these contests are something these writers really need. They’re already getting published in Too Many Controllers and have already built quite the following.

This post doesn’t necessarily apply to me as I’ve already self-published a book myself(though a win in this contest would be a huge turning point for me), I’m more concerned about the newer writers wanting to contribute to these contests and the overall future of the Inkshares site in general.

Just my 2 cents, not trying to step on any toes, just trying to add to the ideas/conversation and look out for the little people.

Thanks! I had a lot of fun coming up with these characters and their reactions to Quicksilver. Glad you liked it!