Friends the Write Out Loud Syndicate is live!!
If you know what a Syndicate is, I encourage you to join and help me support the LGBTQIA writing community.
If you are not sure what this is, I can tell you that a syndicate is a way in which every month you can help an author gets published, by pooling your resources with other like-minded readers and pre-ordering their book. There are two tears: $10 for an e-copy or $20 for a signed copy. Not bad eh?
So you donate $10 or $20 every month. We all as a group decide what author to support and when the author hits funding that book will eventually make it to you.
Inkshares is a fantastic way to support the LGBTQIA community and allies. We need more books with characters breaking barriers and stereotypes and this is the way to do it! (at least one way.
So please join me!
Ricardo
We’re only a month away.
One month and the book you power-wished into being will be released onto an unsuspecting public. Rumors are spreading that the books are back from the printer and will soon be making their way into your hands. You’ll get to read it first, and a month from now it will be out in the wild, impossible to reclaim. I have become a pulsing anxiety-cluster.
Let us focus on something more crucial. A party.
Asteroid Made of Dragons Launch Party
Avid Bookshop - Athens, GA - April 5th.
I adore Avid - this is my home bookshop, and I defy you to find a better. They are clever, courteous, cultured, and cute.
If you can come you should come. No excuses. Book the flights, project yourself through the medium of the astral plane, piggyback on a passing underwear salesman. Get here. You have a month to figure it out. There will be music. There will be me in a wizard cape. There will be a 17 act play I’ve entitled ’Hubris Poignant: A Portrait of the Writer as a Nuclear Firestorm’. We’ll go out for drinks afterwards. Then I’ll tell you what I really think about Lev Grossman and The Magicians. I’ll only have a few hours to spare before the Rich and Famous Bus arrives with my Genre Authority Shoes and Internet Sage Scepter, so enjoy these fleeting moments of my mortality before I ascend into something quite akin to a small, mewling god-baby.
I mean, how could you miss all that?
Happy Friday! Couple of small updates. While work on cover design continues, and while we await word on the edit, some loose ends regarding contests are also being wrapped. This week a couple of really sweet bone-in Ribeyes were sent to the winner of the McCall’s Meat And Fish Gift Certificate, and I have been in contact with a tattoo artist about the Honor-Derric-Of-The-Beagle-Freedom-Project tattoo. This should be fun (and maybe a little painful!) Meanwhile royalties have started to trickle in, and the first 10% donation to the Beagle Freedom Project has been made. So if you haven’t ordered and you want to help a good cause and read a good book, hit that pre-order button! Also, don’t forget if you’re on Facebook to head over the book’s Facebook page. There I’ll be posting updates on the production process and whatever interesting things I think you might like. Here’s the link in case you missed it.
https://www.facebook.com/womenlikeusnovel/?ref=aymt_homepage_panel
Oh, and the extremely talented Steven Murashige took my author photo, which appears below. As you can see we decided on something more casual and fun rather than ultra-serious. I love the picture, and I can’t thank him enough. Check out Steven’s site for more on his work here:
I think that’s it for now. Thanks all and have a great Friday.
I’m so EXCITED!
Check out the fan video for Blood Dawn that just went live this morning:
Cara ("A.C.") Weston, author of She Is the End, offered to put together a fan video trailer for Blood Dawn, and HERE IT IS!
Listen to several Inkshares authors talk about what’s GREAT about Blood Dawn and why they can’t wait to read it. In addition to Cara, these authors are:
Thank you so much for doing this! Thanks also to one of my beta readers, Tyler Sparrow, who recently read the first draft in its entirety, and added his praise in this video. And THANK YOU to Alex Weston (The "A" in "A.C. Weston") for his expertise putting this video together. This is an EPIC piece to add to the finish of this funding campaign.
I got shivers watching this. What a way to end the week! (Translation: Cara, you are the BEST!)
:=)
Just noticed that the following for this idea double recently. Cool. I’ve actually been doing some brainwork on this idea, what type of superhero could work, how their relationship was, why the hero is dead and why his evil twin would want to take up his brother’s persona.
Happy 3-03, Space Crew!
I hope the day is treating you well. It’s chaotic over here as I scramble to prepare things to show you and continue promoting The Traveller’s Cup.
So here’s where we stand. Yesterday we had a few more orders come through, but not the 10 we needed. In fact, it appears we’ve slipped into 10th place from 7th. We still have time to make up for it, but it’s running fast.
If you’re a follower of this book but haven’t ordered your copy yet, now is absolutely the time. I need your enthusiasm and momentum to keep this project alive. The contest will close in less than two weeks.
This book is extremely important to me. I want to write for you all for a living. Something about this idea resonated with you, and it needs your support to continue. This is a single story that could become a universe. I think it has what it takes to make you laugh, forget to breathe, and cry. I believe in this book, and if you do too, I need your pre-orders now.
Every day that we hit 10 pre-orders I will provide a new excerpt from the story. If we hit 20 in a day I’ll include a visual comic page of one of the scenes. If we hit 50, who knows. Maybe I’ll shave my head. What would you like to see?
Either way, if you believe in this book, please share it and please order your own copy. We’re running out of time.
Your Totally-Got-It-All-Together Space Captain,
-AC
I have 170 orders and 107 days left to get fully funded. Sorry to be a number nerd but that makes me smile.
That is all.