It’s Character Update day! For our first character spotlight, we’ll be taking a closer look at the Diamelen’s troubled medical officer, Dr. Ramanathan Bachal. 

 What role will this haunted doctor play in the events on Tantalus 13? Can the crew of The Diamelen depend on him when disaster strikes, or will he become a crippling liability? Find out when you pre-order Tantalus Depths!

Hi Followers of Monkeys,

Monkey Business is done, published and out in the world. Backers who are getting signed copies should have them by next week at the latest. I want to say thank you one more time for the interest and support. I hope you like the book.

Couple of things. Elan Samuel of theWarblerBooks.com and One fame was kind enough to interview me for his site. I’m not sure when that’s going up but I’ll let you know. Huge thanks to Elan who was a super cool guy whom I hope to talk to again soon. I urge you to go check out theWarblerBooks.com.

I’m also doing a small interview for Inkshares. Not sure when that will be up but I’ll let you know. Monkey Business was the first Quill Publication so if anybody has any questions, thoughts, concerns or jokes feel free to get in touch.

And now for the big ask. Would you consider going to Amazon and leaving a review of Monkey Business? As many authors who are much smarter than me have pointed out, Amazon reviews are crucial to getting your book out there. If you could take a minute and leave one for Monkey Business, that would be radically awesome, borderline superfly.

And if you enjoy the book, please tell someone you know. Or everyone you know. Thank you all!

Good morning all!

This weekend has been a wild ride of networking at Awesome con DC, which has already started to pay off, but will continue to I’m sure. The campaign itself is going extremely well, and the actual orders are beating the projection still. Right now we have a hundred days left for the whole campaign, and we’re a hundred orders away from Quill.

I cannot thank everyone enough for their support, and if the rest of my reader list pre-orders, we’re made and The Sleeping Man will publish! What are you waiting for, an Elizabethan-style invitation?

Dearest Reader,

I hope this letter finds you well. It has been many days since this campaign has begun and many more to go, and I find myself gazing wistfully o’er the morning greens wondering as to the location of your most important pre-order. Will thou not placeth thine order on the site of web hosted by the sharers of ink?

Ever at your service,

Stephen Carignan

Hey, everyone!

Jason here with your weekly To Live and Die in Avalon update!

Editing is progressing quite well on the first draft which is slowly morphing into a more polished second draft. Initial feedback from my beta readers has been very positive and I’ve already cleaned up a lot of stuff myself. 

We’re at the 30-day mark and as I see the book taking shape toward a completed form I’m getting more and more excited to get it into your hands. The complete novel has eighteen chapters with only four of those (pre-revision) chapters up on the campaign page. There’s a lot more story out there and some really great stuff I can’t wait for you to read, but the book has to go into production before that can happen! If you feel that this is a book worth being published then please pre-order!

Those of you who have already pre-ordered have already shown your faith in the finished product and I can’t thank you enough. Please keep spreading the word! 

That’s all for this week. As I said last week, I’ve put the supplementary fiction series The Avalon Chronicler on hold while I dig into full on edit/second draft mode, but please, if you dig this kind of thing and want to see more of it, let me know!

Also, if you have a moment, please check out the draft of my next project:

https://www.inkshares.com/books/aurasong-blue-sword

As I get closer to finishing Avalon, you may see some more updates on that subsequent project!

Thanks and have a great week!

Jason

@atomicboywonder

split0@gmail.com

Well, unfortunately despite the boost from syndicate backing, we have not been able to reach our goal of 250 pre-orders by June 5th. We’ve come up 22 orders short of that lofty goal, so the free short story promotion won’t be offered at this time. I’ve decided to set that as a goal for the 300 order mark: Once we hit 300 orders (however long that takes) I’ll make my short story The Perspective Machine free for all for 5 days.

We’ve made a lot of good progress this weekend, and I do fully expect Tantalus Depths to reach the Quill goal some time this week. Don’t forget to show support in any way you’re able, either by bringing friends or family in to buy pre-orders or simply to spread the word on all social media platforms. Remember: this whole project can only succeed with your help.

Hello again, all! Short update. 

As you may or may not know, there’s a Video-game themed Nerdist contest going on. I’m relieved to not have a horse in the race this time, but I wanted to let you know about it. 

I actually created the cover for one of the books in the top ten, REB1RTH, so check it out. 

All of the books in the top ten (and even some below that) look like real contenders and I wish them all luck!