Yo, readers!

  Welcome to our 5th Detective Sunday. I hope the weather has been bearable for you guys; for me it has been hectic. It has been raining non-stop, and not even letting up on the weekends. However, there’s a plus to this weather. I can just lock myself up in the house and write, or play games with friends. So, it’s not all that bad haha. For this update, I’ll just touch base with you guys on the future, and even show off some work of the artist I may be working with.

  I’ll show some of her art first.

  Her style of drawing has always been on the anime-ish side, but I’ve seen her also do a more mature drawing that had great detail. She also excels at making colorful symbols with nice patterns in the background. Also, these examples are just the covers of my fantasy series that we collabed on.

  Besides the art, I wanted to talk about the next step, which is pre-ordering. We got past Draft Fest, and during that event, I went around and read books and was blown away by many of them. I recommended my top three during the event, and they are well-deserved. However, in the end, I couldn’t get to everyone. Still, I enjoyed the event and got a few followers/likes myself. 

  I want to start pre-ordering before next Friday, or possibly after Friday. I’ll put out an update the day I start, and we may change up the update schedule depending on what extra I may have planned. Of course, Detective Sunday will stay as is. I see this as the main update that everyone will more than likely read on a Sunday morning or late in the afternoon.

  Well, that’s all for now. Have a good morning/afternoon wherever you are, and remember, be safe.

  Until next time, Sixth.  

Hey Guys. OK so Squids In has dropped down to 7th place in the Nerdist competition, but we are only 6 unique readers from taking 3rd place so please can you do me a solid and place a pre-order? If you already have, any chance you can tell someone you know about this wacky book and get them interested enough to pre-order it?

To try and incentivize you to pre-order, I created a list of "Ten Awesome Octopus Items on Etsy" over on Buzzfeed - https://www.buzzfeed.com/matthewp4d317e6ea/ten-awesome-octopus-items-on-etsy-2dqod

Please place a pre-order. The octopus has already replaced his launch day bottle of prosecco with a bottle of Kraken Rum and i’m worried about what will happen to him if Squids In drops out of the top ten.

You can pre-order Squids In by following this link - https://www.inkshares.com/books/squids-in

Matthew

Readers and followers of The Seventh Age! I bring you:

                                                    ART!

Check out how the cover is coming along. This is a higher resolution image than I’ve usually been sharing. The final artwork for this and the back cover should be done before the end of June. 

After the cover, the first character sketch has come in from my prior request looking for art commissions. The talented artist Lizzy Perez has read the Seventh Age and deemed the character Akira her favorite one. She nailed it! Stay tuned for future updates as Lizzy also has some more artwork and scenes coming in as well. 

The final part of this quick update is: I’m 38 readers / copies away from clearing the major benchmark of 1000. If you know anyone who is interested in urban fantasy, conspiracy, and street-tacos, send them over. I’ll be holding a series of 7 raffles after I hit 1000 for all readers on my dashboard. From reader #1 all the way to the final order. Everyone will be eligible. So if you want to be in: you’ve got 38 spots left. 

Prizes will range from artwork, tarot-decks, occult books, and some other Seventh-Age themed works. More info on that stuff as we get closer to 1k!

38 more! We can do this. 

Fantastic news! Tantalus Depths has received the tremendous honor of being backed by a syndicate!
Tantalus Depths has been made the official June pick by the GREAT SCIFI for the 21st CENTURY and BEYOND SYNDICATE. I can’t begin to express how honored I am to have Tantalus Depths earn this great syndicate’s support. We are now only 29 pre-orders away from Quill!

Thank you, thank you, thank you to Matthew Isaac Sobin and all the members of this syndicate for this gesture.

We’re getting really close, everyone. I can feel it! Keep sharing and promoting Tantalus Depths whenever and wherever you can! 

Hello Cape’s Side Bayers!

Hope you’re all doing well! It’s the weekend. Finally!

Few exciting things have happened. First, it’s been two weeks since we crossed the Quill mark of 250 and are now at 46% of our full-publishing mark! That’s a total of 347 orders! Amazing! Thank you all so much.

Now for the awesome part of this update. This morning when I woke up I had several e-mails in my inbox, typical. The one that stood out, however, was the one informing me that Cape’s Side Bay had been selected into the THRILLER NIGHT SYNDICATE! Unbelievable. I cannot thank them enough for selecting this book into their club. It is truly an honour to be acknowledge by your peers. Now the Cape’s Side page has a Eid Mar Roman Coin hovering around!

I’m flattered, honoured, and humbled at the selection.

Now, the long long road to 750 and full-publishing continues. I thank you ALL for your continued support for this book. I really enjoy it and believe you will too!

Please keep sharing, recommending, and pre-ordering (y’know, if you haven’t).

Enjoy your weekend!

James

THERE’S A BOOK TRAILER FOR THE TEST!!!

You can watch it from the link below OR view it on the book page.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4YIk8XHwk8

Hi all,

153 orders ago (!!) I’ve announced a raffle in which the winner would get a minor character in his name. A few things have happened since:
(1) We are nearly at 500 orders which is 2/3 of the road to full Inkshares - amazing stuff, really am speechless.
(2) I have since added a short chapter, in which this character will briefly feature.
(3) And now I have a winner.

The raffle was supervised by my lovely wife Yael, who’s both an Israeli Advocate and an English Solicitor, so any complaints please email her... And now, without further ado:

Edo is going to be a low grade Israeli Mossad Analyst, but to know the details of this minor character, you will have to wait for the book.

I am still trying to get orders through the charity for children with disabilities (Norwood) referral link. I will donate more than the sum received from the orders this I promise. But please, the order rate for this cause is relatively low, so if you can spare another eBook, or have Inkshares credits - you can use this link to help (https://goo.gl/3bTKYB).

I’ll leave you with a yearning for more... 

Untill next time,

Nice weekend!

Jon D

Support for Tantalus Depths is surging again! We’re now at 213 pre-orders and climbing rapidly. I have no doubts whatsoever we’ll hit Quill soon, probably within the next week. Remember, if we get there by the 5th, I’m giving everyone a free short story right then and there. 37 pre-orders in two and a half days is a bit of a long shot, but it can be done if everyone really pushes for it!

I’m in the process of figuring out a more consistent kind of update schedule, delivering certain kinds of updates on certain days. I’ll have more on that later today once I get it worked out.

Also! It’s come to my attention that I don’t think I actually linked this here on inkshares back when I first posted it (naturally, I posted it everywhere else, but forgot to put it in the one place it matters most).

Back when the Geek and Sundry Hard Science Fiction competition was in its latter days, some of the top entrants were asked by Inkshares what their dream movie cast would be for their books. I wasn’t asked, but I took it upon myself to come up with a cast anyway. If you’d like to see my personal cast picks for a big-screen adaptation of Tantalus Depths, and get a bit more information on some characters you haven’t seen much from yet, you can check them out on Tantalus Depths’ blog here!