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I need more galactic races in my life, so I hope you continue on with this and are successful.
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    Hey, remember this contest?

    Well, don't. I lost. We lost. That's the bad news. The good news? I wrote a frickin' book!  While winning would've been a handy shortcut it was never the plan. So, congratulations to the winners who certainly worked as hard and deserve it as much as any of us down here in the word mines. I tip my sooted flashlight helmet that probably has a name and get back to work.

    So what can you do kind follower/supporter/other interested party? Excellent question as always. Well, I'd suggest following ME instead of Bad Trip as I imagine they'll take down the page mid-November. And/or (let's just go with and) come on over to Bookface and follow Bad Trip there for updates and such.

    And please accept my sincerest gratitudes to all of you who've supported me thus far. It's hard hunched over a keyboard squinting at words until they stop making sense to know what I'm even doing sometimes. And to see so many people rally for me or find this page by mystery internet ways to click 'Follow' blew my mind on a daily basis. To the point where the words Thank and You seem insufficient. Unfortunately they're the ones I've got. So, thank you.

    Now I promise the next time I ask for your credit card information it will be to sell you an actual book not a maybe/possibly future book en potentia.

    --MC
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      Dear Readers,

      A brief update for you Monday inbox, with a few pieces of good news to welcome the harvest:

      1) Back in July I was longlisted for the Crook's Corner Book Prize in Chapel Hill, NC. Crook's Corner is a staple of Southern cuisine in North Carolina (Chez Moi, the fictional restaurant in Slim and The Beast, was inspired by the spot), and it is an honor to be among the candidates for the debut novelist prize. Lee Smith, a literary legend down south, will choose the short list in the coming weeks. Regardless of whether I'm selected (it's a long shot, indeed), I'm honored to be considered and wanted to share it with you all:

      http://crookscornerbookprize.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/CROOKSBOOKS_release16_fourthtake.pdf

      2) I have finished the manuscript for my third novel, which is a historical fiction based in a Polish ghetto (Lodz) during the Nazi occupation. I spent my academic career (BA + MA) studying ethics during the Nazi era and the psychology of genocide, and this novel serves as a culmination of those studies. It will take some time before I move towards publishing, but after three years of writing, I am confident I have something now.

      3) I have been accepted to the Vermont Studio Center artist residency program in Johnson, Vermont for February, 2016. Quite frankly, I didn't expect to get in. It's a huge honor. I will spend one month living with fifty international artists (visual artists as well as writers) and during this time, I hope to begin my fourth novel. I don't know where it will lead me, but I have an idea where to start ... as Andre Gide says, "One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time." 

      NB: For all of you artists out there, you should DEFINITELY apply to these types of programs. You never know which reviewer may take a liking to your work--if I can make it, so can you. Multiple rejection letters only increase your odds (that might be flawed logic/a cognitive bias, but I'm running with it. DON'T TRY AND STOP ME).

      Finally, Slim and The Beast is still selling a few copies per week, which is more than I expected. I'm lucky to have jumped on-board the Inkshares train when I did, and that comes with a HUGE thanks to the 232 original backers-- Stars of the Year, you know who you are--for being the main reason for any of this. You believed in me when Inkshares didn't have any previously published novels or well-known writers, and that makes you especially awesome.

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