Good morning, everyone!

I wanted to start the week with a quick update. As always, thank you all so very much for supporting me and Shadow King as part of the 2016 Launchpad Competition.

Right now I’m closing in on 60 pre-orders, and have unfortunately slipped down on the leaderboard slightly. The good news, however, is that Inkshares and Launchpad have elected to extend the Inkshares portion of the competition until December 16. So that gives me several more weeks to share Shadow King with potential readers and fans, and move back up the leaderboard.

This competition is an amazing opportunity and I look forward to the rest of the journey. I’ll send another update in a week or so... in the meantime, please keep sharing my link!

All the best,

Susan 

Greetings, Faoii! 

Hello, all! Hope you’re having a fantastic weekend. It’s a gloomy Saturday here in the north of England - fantastic weather for getting stuck into a bit of writing! So far today, I’ve made just over 3,000 words of progress on Witherfist today, and will be looking to do the same tomorrow.

In terms of preorder stats, there isn’t much to update you on. Since the end of the contest, the number of new readers joining the campaign has been relatively small. Currently, it’s sitting at 195 copies ordered. 

There are now a whopping 241 of you following the book. To anyone who has yet to purchase their copy, please take a look at the sample chapters and consider making your preorder today. If you’re already ordered, I would be incredibly grateful if you could share your interest with this book with one of your friends or family members. We need to reach 250 preorders by December 31st to ensure that this book is published. 

I know that we can do this. Thanks for your support,

~ Jenny

Greetings! 

 

Just a quick update today. I hope everyone had a fantastic Halloween and engaged in the acquisition of wine and treats! I couldn’t post it last week, so, even if it’s a bit late... here is an article I wrote for Geek & Sundry about Legends of Halloween. 

As for me, activities over the past week netted me this picture: (Painting by Eric Vernor)

 

As for Seventh Age news:

• Today we are hosting The Second City Shuffle, a one-night Live Action game set in the world of the Seventh Age. I’ll be posting pictures in the next update. 
  
• We’ve got all our early blurbs and endorsements in, and the cover is being finalized. Thank you so much to everyone who took the time to read this early! I’m saving the actual quotes until we get closer to launch date.
• NanoWrimo is underway, and I’m working on the creation of a cyberpunk world for a game. It’s pretty damn neat!
• My sequel, Seventh Age: Dystopia is fully outlined with scene by scene, chapter, and character guides. I’m applying new techniques that I learned over the course of writing the first book!

Alright. That’s it! I’m off to go be a massive geek and roleplay Patrick O’Neil for a night!

Hi all,

Some of you — those who follow me on Facebook — may already know this. Overnight Inkshares sent out an announcement to competitors in The Launchpad Manuscript Competition; they have extended the duration of the crowdfunding competition. Originally, this competition (one part of the overall competition process) was due to finish on 8 November (PST), just four short days away. It will now finish on 16 December — for those keeping track, that changes the duration from approx three weeks to eight. At the time I’m writing this, there has been no public announcement, but I’m assuming it isn’t far off. 

I’ve blogged about the date change on my website here: https://robertbatten.net/2016/11/05/the-launchpad-manuscript-competition-announcement-date-change/

TL;DR: I’m disappointed, as we were close to the finish line and in a good position. With an additional five weeks of campaigning, this becomes anyone’s game again.  

You have all been an important source of support through the campaign so far — and I don’t just mean pre-orders. The personal words of encouragement, the recommendations on Inkshares, and the wonderful posts on Facebook and Twitter. Thank you for that, it has been overwhelming. Now, I will soldier on, keep campaigning, and — with your help — prove to be the little Tasmanian who could.

If you can keep working with me to see Human Resources published, it would be fantastic. We need to keep spreading the word to find new supporters!

Note: I try to limit myself to weekly updates so as not to become a nuisance, but I felt this announcement deserved to be sent out immediately.

Cheers,

Robert

https://www.inkshares.com/books/human-resources

Greetings Jackolytes,

Sync City continues to wend its way through the editorial process, and the spotlight of reality is becoming brighter and brighter. I just went through the proofread copy of the manuscript, and it’s looking squeaky clean. Next it’s off to the cold reader who checks for any glaring errors that may have been missed.

In the not too distant future, Jack and his ride are going to head off and get printed. If you want a first edition paperback copy, then time is running out. Follow this link and hit the pre-order button if you want to snare your chunk of Sync City history! You’ll be glad you did.

Cheers,

Peter

’You don’t need much to change the entire world for the better. You can start with the most ordinary ingredients. You can start with the world you’ve got.” - Catherine Ryan Hyde, Pay It Forward

Hi everyone,

Just a quick note with some news: we just found out that InkShares is extending the Launchpad Competition deadline to December 16th. This is somewhat disappointing as the finish line looked so close as of this morning, and I know everyone has really put forth a lot of effort! But now at least there’s a little bit of breathing room. Thank you again for your continued support - let’s keep the flame burning! We’re still in the Top 3 and doing great! 

Thanks again for all!

Liz