Hey everyone!

We have officially reached a new milestone—200 pre-orders! Thank you, thank you to everyone who has ordered Showtime so far and taken the time to offer support, words of encouragement, spreading the word about the book, or telling me how much you enjoyed the sample chapters. It means a ton, guys and girls.

As we get ready to enter the final month of the pre-order campaign, I hope you’ll consider helping me with a couple more favors.

1. If you have ONE person who you KNOW you could get to pre-order (either through love, guilt, or blackmail), that would be fantastic. It could be a friend, a sibling, your parents, even Cousin Oliver or Great Aunt Suzy. If everyone who has already pre-ordered did that, we could get a huge bump in pre-orders in no time. We can party with donuts to celebrate. 

 2. Read Showtime’s sample chapters! Inkshares also tracks the amount of time spent reading them when considering books for publication, so I’d really appreciate you taking a look if you haven’t already. I just posted Chapters 3 & 4 to celebrate the new milestone!

 3. Lastly, if you have read the sample chapters (or if you’re one of my beta readers who’ve read the whole book), I would hugely appreciate it if you took a moment to post a review on Showtime’s page. It doesn’t have to be much—just a sentence or two saying what you thought about what you read. Reader engagement through reviews is a big way to show there’s excited, book-loving faces behind each pre-order tally!

It’s easy—just follow THIS LINK and click the “ADD REVIEW” button to the right.

Thanks for your continued support to keep the momentum going! Here’s to another 100!

Ricky

P.S. – Don’t forget to vote for Showtime as “Best Book” in The Baltimore Sun’s “Best of Baltimore” poll by 5:00pm tomorrow! It’s a great way to get Showtime some extra exposure! Remember, you can vote once every day BY CLICKING HERE.