Good day sentients!

I’ll get to the news in a moment, but first I want to do a little push. Again. Don’t worry, this one won’t cost you a penny, just a few moments of your time.

You know what’s awesome about books? The best part some would say? Being able to chat about the book with your friends. A lot of you enjoyed The Life Engineered and that fact brings me immeasurable joy. But what if we could get more people? I’m not going to ask you to promote The Life Engineered. I mean, talk about it, by all means, but what I want from you is help getting my book nominated for the Dragon Awards.

DragonCon is huge and these awards are going to be huge. Just getting a nomination would be a tremendous honour, and since these are submitted by readers like you, why not give it a shot?

Just check out the nomination page and enter The Life Engineered in the Science Fiction Novel field, fill in the rest with whatever you feel is deserving and voila! You’re done. You’ve helped me. And think of it this way; if I get nominated, I kind of have to go to DragonCon. So this is a way you can force me to spend money.

The News:

As you probably know by now, my second book A God in the Shed has reached its funding goal and will be published on Inkshares. Over the coming weekend I’ll be hard at work filling out the paperwork and doing a final polish to the manuscript before sending everything out to Inkshares for editing.

While Inkshares and Girl Friday Productions are working on all this, I’ll be finishing the first draft for ArchAndroid. This means that we are rapidly approaching the day when I call out for beta readers. Parallel to that, I’m preparing the funding campaign for ArchAndroid which is both a terrifying and exciting endeavour. I’m eager to get this book out there but terrified at doing another funding campaign.

Thanks again for your support my friends. I’m working on a little promotional thing with Inkshares to distribute some more signed prints to readers.

Cheers,

JF