Hello to all!

So I love writing stories and I rarely work on just one at a time.  The latest, which as yet has no name, seems a lot more fun than Sweet Harvest.  In case y’all agree,  I’ve decided to put the first chapter of this new work up in the slot originally left for Sweet Harvest.

If y’all like its premise more than the were-lions, give me a heads up and I’ll put in a few more chapters or (joy of joys) give it its own page.  It’ll be coming down when I put chapter nine up on Sunday, so this is just a short interlude to the normally scheduled programming.

I wish y’all a great day and a fabulous weekend!

I debated with myself whether I should do an author spotlight this week or not, since I made that my focus last week, and I don’t want to overwhelm you with information about projects that you’re not directly following. However, I do have one particular project I really want to support.

I’ve already made this book the subject of a previous author spotlight, but it’s worthy of a second one. 

You may ask yourself "Evan, why are you, an unmarried, childless man, so invested in a memoir about a woman raising her toddler?" Well, you’d be right to assume that it isn’t my genre of choice. Other than being a gamer as well, I have little to tie myself to the subject matter of Mothering: The Game. However, interestingly, there are quite a few parallels between that book and Tantalus Depths.

Tantalus Depths saw its origins in Geek and Sundry’s Hard Science Fiction competition. It placed in the top ten, but failed to win, and ever since then I’ve been working overtime to see it hit the full funding goal the hard way. One by one I’ve seen every other entrant in that contest either give up or fall short, their campaigns dropping left and right until the only ones left standing are the winners of that contest, and me.

Mothering: The Game saw its origins in Nerdist’s Video Games competition. Regina also managed to claw her way into the top ten, but not quite to the top. Since then, she’s been working hard to try and scrape together the support she needs to make it to the Quill goal the hard way. One by one, the other entrants in her contest gave up or failed, until the only ones left standing are the winners, Alisa King’s "Are You Sure You Want To Quit" (which managed to make it to Quill and deserves your support as well), and Mothering: The Game. Only a few scattered stragglers remain, none of them with more than a couple dozen pre-orders.

I’ve seen a determination and tenacity in Regina’s campaign. She wants to finish it, she wants to hit that goal, and she’s been willing to work hard for it. She’s successfully earned the Break The Bechdel syndicate’s pick, a syndicate that focuses on books with strong female protagonists. Well...the protagonist of Mothering: The Game is Regina. The real Regina. She’s a strong female protagonist in the flesh, and she’s earned all the success she’s seen and much, much more she’s yet to see.

Her writing is personal and meaningful. The relationship between her and her daughter radiates off the page and warms the heart. I’ve backed this book, and I’ve been kicking her butt to keep trying for that goal ever since I first found Mothering: The Game. True, it’s not my genre. That doesn’t stop me from loving this book, though. And even if it did, it could not stop me from seeing the reality that Mothering: The Game is a book that must exist. There is nothing like it on Inkshares, and there are few books like it in existence. Please, please consider playing a part in bringing this book to its goal.

Mothering: The Game has only 14 days remaining in its campaign, and has already been extended once. It needs 47 more orders to reach Quill publication. If I had the cash and Inkshares allowed it, I’d buy all 47 myself.

Okay, Faoii! Listen up!

Good news everyone!  Two more chapters have been added in the past three days, which means plenty of gratuitous violence and a consensual sex scene where the guy keeps his pants on!

More importantly, however, I witnessed an act of genuine altruism.  This guy was carrying a ton of books and dropped them.  Some other guy, not a friend if body language was any indication, waited for the light to change, helped the person who’d dropped stuff to gather everything, then waited for the light to change and went back about his life.  Ain’t humanity full of great examples of people being wonderful?  I mean, I know it’s full of the opposite, too, but I love seeing kindness in action.  

I wish y’all a great day and the kind of luck that just makes life a little more amusing and a little easier to live.  

Hello my Knightmares!

I have something special to announce. As of last Wednesday, we officially hit 250! So in visual hyperbole, here’s a 250 point font of the number 250 for your viewing pleasure!

The Knightmares will officially be made into a book for everyone to read. This is the benchmark I needed to hit, and I couldn’t be happier that we made it. 

Thanks to everyone who has bought a copy, those of you who promoted me for the sake of friendship, or just because you’re an awesome person and wanted to see my dream become a reality. You’re all awesome in my book (Ha, book! Get it?).

A special shout out to Jamison Stone (buy his book here!) for helping me to grab several extra orders last week. And another special shout out to Lisa Van Brunt, who nabbed the 250th order to put me over the top.

As the last 24 days run down, please grab an extra copy for a friend, or if you’re one of those people who waits until the last moment to jump on the bandwagon, do it now! Let’s run this up as close to 300 as possible, if not more!

Thanks again, and stay tuned for more updates to come!

Hello to the 111 followers and 47 readers (wow!) of Witherfist.

A slightly different update for you today, as I share with you a little of the ’behind the scenes’ worlding building that goes on when I’m working on Witherfist. Today, I’d like to show off some of my newly acquired amateur cartography skills. After all, what would any decent fantasy novel be without a map to refer to? 

Though it’s still a work in progress, here’s a little glimpse of the geographic region featured in the sample chapters of Witherfist. It’s by no means the full view of the world, and even this small section isn’t fully labelled yet (where are the dragons at the edges?!) but here it is! 

If you squint, you might be able to read what it says...

There’s plenty still to add and I’m hoping to be able to share more of this map with you very soon.

~ Jenny

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