Hello everyone! 
Thought it was about time for my first update after a good weekend. :)
I made some edits to the prologue last week and put up Chapter 1 at the end of the week. The response from these was great with three recommendations. I couldn’t stop grinning knowing people were loving what I was almost to nervous to post (seriously was siting at  the computer hovering over the button to post for like an hour). Since then followers went up from about 11 to 23! I was even trending on the front page (dont know what it takes to do that but it was cool anyway :P).  While still no where near the goal and only two order it was fantastic to get a response like that in about a day or two. Since then I’ve used the feedback to make some needed edits,  including some additions that expand certain parts a little, to both chapter 1 and the prologue. Check those out if you haven’t already.

Please continue to help me make this dream come true and share this around as much as you can!

I also have a question for you all. What is it that prompts you to go from following to actually ordering? With my followers growing but order not really changing I want to know what I can do to entice you further. Is it simply you want to see more chapters before you decide (chapter 2 coming soon btw)? Do you want to know more about the characters? Whatever it is let me know so we can start getting the ball rolling. 

As always thank you all of you for your kind words and support really keeps me going in my writing.
-Jacob

Happy Monday, y’all!

First off, A Beast Requires is clinging to 10th Place in the Geek & Sundry Fantasy Contest, with 85 backers. Yea, it’s getting to that part of the campaign where every backer matters, so if you haven’t had the opportunity to back A Beast Requires yet, now is definitely the time. At 107 pre-orders, we’re almost halfway to the Quill goal, which is nice.

So, dragons.

I count myself lucky that so many of you following me are writers. We all know The Struggle. It doesn’t matter how many books you’ve written, or what sort of genre you write, all of our work starts with that first glimmer of an idea. We all cultivate that glimmer, scribbling in notebooks or banging away at a keyboard. We draft, and draft again, searching for beta readers, grammar checkers, and if we’re lucky, an editor. 

While we are all at different places in our writing, we all remember that first book we poured our souls in. Mine was an absolute train wreck of a fantasy adventure, involving a book, a dog, and an angry teenage wizard. I loved it so much, but twenty years later I can look back and say with absolute certainty, it was a complete pile of words. We get better with every story. Hells, we get better with every draft, and we all know the joy that comes from finishing that final edit. But it’s not our final edit, and we all know the frustration and sadness that looms off in the distant horizon.

I like writers. Actually, I like content creators, but I’m particularly biased towards writers. And cooks, but that’s an entirely different story. It’s why I’m so thankful so many writers follow me on Inkshares, and how I absolutely lose my shit when another writer backs A Beast Requires. We all know how rough it is, especially how rough an Inkshares campaign is, so it comes as a welcoming comfort every time one of likes the thing I struggled for. I will always try to back as many writers as I’m financially able to. Support means everything to a writer, especially when  you’re just starting out. There will always be The Struggle, and there will always be dragons, but none of us are ever truly going through all this alone.