Hello Friends!
This picture was taking 15 years ago, in October of 2001. I had just arrived in the country, and I was full of hopes and dreams
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Unfortunately, soon I learned that my degree in journalism was looked at less because I had got it in a different country. I also learned that my broken English made me unqualified even for a retail job. So I started washing dishes, earning $7.5 an hour.
I am telling you this story because I want you to understand the impact that your support is having. Either if you pay $30, $9.99, $5 or if you bought the book with Inkshares credits, taking a chance on me has completely changed my life.
I am proud of myself, and I want to present to you a book that I will be proud to share. So I will be working hard with the Inkshares team to turn The Catcher’s Trap in the best version of itself.
The day The Doctor invites me for a ride in his Tardis, I will ask him to take me back to the day I took that picture, just so I can tell that kid, “hold on because it will be bumpy and hard, but it all will work out in the end.”
Love
Ricardo
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:
