Hello Readers, Followers, and Lurkers!

Quick update today: Christopher Lee (author of The Lore of the Aos Sí) made a book trailer for Fae Child! It is complete, and here it is (you can also view it on the Fae Child main page):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MDVWv88J4w

I just love it. Thank you again, Christopher! As a reminder, he is running a promotion where if you preorder his book and review/recommend it he will make you a book trailer. If you’re in need of some fancy multimedia to help promote your book you should jump on it!

~ Jane-Holly

We’ve passed into the double digits! As of right now, we’re at 97 orders to go. We’ve almost caught up to where we were before we lost all the orders. Keep sharing and spreading the word. The time for the final push is here!

Also, I absolutely couldn’t wait to share this: Kaytalin Platt, author of The Living God, has made this amazing Tantalus Depths poster! Feel free to share it anywhere.

 

Hello Adventure Readers!

We are so close to hitting the publishing goal of 250!  We are at 228 orders and need another 22 orders to hit our target!  This past weekend, I was a guest a the Lone Pine Western Film Festival and signed copies of my new (just released in bookstores!) Western novel "T.H. Elkman".  It was a great weekend and I autographed a couple dozen books.  Hopefully a few "Wings of the Pirate" orders come in from those books as I was sure to include info about Inkshares and my adventure novel.

We still have just over a month left to hit the goal so it would be great to have you aboard with a preorder if you haven’t signed up already.  Also, I was nominated last month for the Staff Syndicate and had several wonderful supporters.  It would be great to get nominated again for November, so if you’re a member, speak up and help get "Wings of the Pirate" pushed over the funding goal and beyond!

Thank you all for your continued support.

Sincerely,

Eric H. Heisner

www.leandogproductions.com

Orders, Faoii! Listen up!

We’re getting close, Faoii. We’re only 40 or so pre-orders away from Quill and select publication. If nothing else, we can earn that victory.

It’s a little more sobering to realize that we’re 100 unique readers away from the top 3 in the Geek and Sundry contest. That hill is more challenging-- but I think we can make it, too. I know I keep telling you that I want our banner on that hill-- but it’s more than that. I want to be able to put The Last Faoii in the hands of girls across the nation. I want to give them a heroine that’s worthy of being emulated-- who’s more than a pretty face looking for a husband. Who’s strong and fierce and wearing armor that covers all of her vital organs. I want young LGBT people to have someone whose main characteristics isn’t that they’re LGBT. Kaiya is a warrior, a woman, a faoii-- she’s more than "just" a lesbian, and I want people to be okay with that.  And I think a lot of you do, too.

Prove it. Get this book out there, to as many people as you can. I want to win that contest because I want Kaiya to help us change the face of fantasy literature and heroines. We can do that. We are faoii.

-Faoii Tahani

Good morning everyone!

It’s Monday and time for another update. There are 21 days left in the Geek and Sundry Contest and The Living God has fallen to 7th. I knew, going into the contest, that it was a longshot that the book could stay in one of those coveted Top 3 positions. However, we did get there for a short time and we’ve held in the top 10 this entire contest, never dropping below 7th. I don’t like admitting defeat, but I also pride myself on being realistic. If each and every person who has backed the book so far could find one more person, a friend, a relative... Hell, I’d take a frenemy... we could shoot our way up to one of those Top 3 spots. 

But, this process has made me all too familiar with how hard it is to ask someone to invest in you, especially where money is concerned. So, if it is hard for me, as the author of this book, to ask for people to invest in it, I can only imagine how hard it is for others. But, if you enjoy The Living God, why not share that enthusiasm with the people in your life? 

Even still, with the contest being a bit out of reach, The Living God is 50 orders away from Quill! Just 50! Maybe, with a bit of guts, some daring, and a couple of shots of vodka, I might shoot for 750. There are 81 days left in the campaign, after all. 

I’m in talks with a friend on collaborating for a fantastic promotion that I think all writers will be interested in. Nothing is final yet, so I won’t reveal what it is, but I’m very excited about the possibilities. I hope to let you know on Friday’s update. 

Cover art promotion is going strong. I’m working on a few still. I also finished an amazing poster for Evan Graham’s Tantalus Depths. I’m not going to reveal it, but go follow him if you haven’t already and you may get a peek at it soon! 

Also, speaking of Tantalus Depths, it has 6 days left for funding and it is SO CLOSE to reaching 750 orders. Tantalus Depths needs as of right now 101 orders to make it to full publishing and distribution. I know I asked a lot earlier for the contest, but the likelihood of getting into the Top 3 is slim. Instead, consider throwing that support to Evan. He’s a fantastic member of this community and he has worked so hard to get Tantalus Depths published. 

That’s all for today! I hope you guys have a fantastic week and thank you for all of your support! 

Hello Delicious Readers! 

Thank you so much.  I’m so honored by the ways that y’all have shared, emailed, and annoyingly pestered your friends into ordering this book.  Thanks to your help, Twisted Tales for Tacky Children has sold over 100 pre-orders in its first weekend!!!

To celebrate our success, I’m posting a new poem to the book’s website.  This one is called, “My Parents Are Kissing Again," (Eww! Gross!) Over the next few months, I’ll be posting new poems, most of which are ones I plan to send over in my final draft to the editor.  Please share these poems widely with your tackiest friends .

Also, big props to my genius little sister, Tori, who suggested that I create a free knitting pattern to promote the book with the many wonderful knitters who visit my blog for the patterns. Here is the hat, and the link to the pattern-please send this to the knitters in your world!We need to sell 250 to get the book printed, and 750 for a full blown publishing contract, and I couldn’t have imagined a better start.

Thanks y’all, and have a great night!

Katie 

Dear Lucky Readers,

I’ve received a few questions about the status of Lucky recently, so I wanted to make sure everyone understands the "next steps" for this novel.

Firstly, I want to assure everyone that YES you will still receive your copy of this novel, once publication is complete. Since this is a crowd-funded project, production does not start until the funding period is over. (It’s like paying in advance for your subscription to National Geographic in that you send them the money, then in a month you get a new magazine.) 

So now we’re in the production phase of this process. This means that the first draft of the manuscript is currently being edited and rewritten. I sent the first seven chapters to my amazing Madam Editor Jessica this week, so content editing is well underway. After that, we will do a pass of line editing (the fancy grammar and spelling check). Then the manuscript will go to the Quill team for formatting, setting, and printing. All of this could take several months. My current estimation is that I will finish edits and rewrites by the end of November. From there, we will enter the production queue at Quill. My hope is that we will see production sometime in early 2017. 

I know this is all general information, but right now this is the best I have. I want to thank you all for your patience with, generosity to and faith in this project. I truly feel that I am the most blessed of all authors to have such supportive readers as all of you.

Stay tuned and happy reading!

Webster