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Uhhh...spoilers, I guess?

I'm poking and prodding the Inkshares site with new text and layout - please give it a look and let me know what you think! Same goes for my personal site - Spell-sword.com. I'm hoping to be able to show you the fancy-schmancy new cover in the next few days - and with that will come new people curious about the book. This goes along with my Pan-Social Platform Clean-Up Regimen -- time to hide all that moogle fanfiction, I suppose. Please let me know what you think will help other people get interested in AMOD - as I finish up the copy edits in the next few weeks, I need to refocus my attention to the Marketing Cannon. Oh, how it gleams...

I haven't said this explicitly in a while - but thank you. This has been an exciting week - in between stresses of Dev Edits and the oncoming Copy Edits - working on the final cover, starting to lay down early work on the marketing strategy - I feel like a BIG BOY WRITER. And it's all thanks to you. So thanks, you weirdos.

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A.C. Weston sent an update for She Is the End

I MISSED MUSEDAY I'M SORRY

I need to make you a mix for Tom and Hope next; these are characters you haven't met yet. They're Earthan and ridiculously awesome. You're going to love them.

Tom is an alien conspiracy theorist who mostly goes around debunking other people's stupid theories and pissing everyone off, and Hope is a Homeland Security Agent who kicks a LOT of ass (even though she can't stop spilling food on herself).

In the meantime, here's an update snapshot of that poster I'm making:

Just one more character to add... who will it be???

Upcoming events:

Don't forget to come to my reading at the Acadia Cafe this Sunday for the MN Speculative Fiction Writers 2015 Local Author Showcase at 3pm!

We're going to get a better recording of this reading than the one last week (I'm still debating posting a link to that one; the audio's not great).

(Ok FINE, if you want to see what was inspiring me yesterday, it's just this song over and over. I listened to it about, oh, 90 times, and now I have a plan for several key scenes in books 2 and 3. Somebody's gonna betraaaaaaaay someoooooone...)

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A.C. Weston sent an update for She Is the End

Hello, followers new and old!

Thank you, everyone who made Friday a really good day. It was amazing! I appreciate all of the support so much, whether through pre-orders or follows or encouragement.

Are you wondering how the reading at Mugshots on Friday went? It was GREAT! There were around 20 people there, which was a small enough crowd for me to talk to everyone there. I realized that my trivia questions were way too hard (I thought they'd be too easy!). Renee won even though she could only remember three characters from Firefly. Congrats, Renee!

Special thanks to Leah (seen above right, interviewing me), who is a shining star, and Ben Saine, who directs a pretty awesome cafe.

NEXT UP:

I'll be reading at the MN Speculative Fiction Writers 2015 Local Author Showcase on Nov 8th at the Acadia Cafe! I only get seven minutes, so I'd better make it good.

The event starts at 3pm and you are all (obviously) invited! I expect all the Canadians to carpool.

Finally, here's a progress snapshot of that Ladies of Scifi poster I'm drawing as a prize for my coloring contest:

I'm going to add Leia and another surprise foundational woman of scifi, just because apparently I can't stop! Alex wants to do some digital color over the pencil; we'll see what we can come up with.

Thanks again, new readers/followers. I'm glad you're here!

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Two special things I wanted to share with you today.

First, JF Dubeau and Paul Inman, two awesome Inkshares authors, kicked off their podcast, WriteBrain, with an episode where they talk about the experience of being published with Inkshares, some of the changes to the Inkshares funding model. They talked about some other Inkshares authors and I was one of them! (I'm mentioned from about 38 mins - 54 mins.)

It's a great podcast so I hope you all enjoy:

Both JF and Paul's books are in production, so if you haven't yet, please do go and have a look at them. The Life Engineered is about our robots descendants trying to avoid the mistakes of humanity. Ageless explores the idea of someone who can live forever, and how that might not be a good thing.

Second, I want to share an epic fantasy book here on Inkshares that I discovered today and am very excited about! This is Storm of Fury by Andrew Wood, which right away has the feel of Wheel of Time, but with a storm in place of the Dark One. The opening is gripping and the mood reminds me of a blend of the prologue in Game of Thrones and the prologue from Hamlet. This is a really talented writer who I think deserves some attention from fans of epic fantasy, so be sure to check out his book: