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Good day sentients!

I’ll get to the news in a moment, but first I want to do a little push. Again. Don’t worry, this one won’t cost you a penny, just a few moments of your time.

You know what’s awesome about books? The best part some would say? Being able to chat about the book with your friends. A lot of you enjoyed The Life Engineered and that fact brings me immeasurable joy. But what if we could get more people? I’m not going to ask you to promote The Life Engineered. I mean, talk about it, by all means, but what I want from you is help getting my book nominated for the Dragon Awards.

DragonCon is huge and these awards are going to be huge. Just getting a nomination would be a tremendous honour, and since these are submitted by readers like you, why not give it a shot?

Just check out the nomination page and enter The Life Engineered in the Science Fiction Novel field, fill in the rest with whatever you feel is deserving and voila! You’re done. You’ve helped me. And think of it this way; if I get nominated, I kind of have to go to DragonCon. So this is a way you can force me to spend money.

The News:

As you probably know by now, my second book A God in the Shed has reached its funding goal and will be published on Inkshares. Over the coming weekend I’ll be hard at work filling out the paperwork and doing a final polish to the manuscript before sending everything out to Inkshares for editing.

While Inkshares and Girl Friday Productions are working on all this, I’ll be finishing the first draft for ArchAndroid. This means that we are rapidly approaching the day when I call out for beta readers. Parallel to that, I’m preparing the funding campaign for ArchAndroid which is both a terrifying and exciting endeavour. I’m eager to get this book out there but terrified at doing another funding campaign.

Thanks again for your support my friends. I’m working on a little promotional thing with Inkshares to distribute some more signed prints to readers.

Cheers,

JF

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    Dear readers, and believers in Blood Dawn,

    Though each of you likely have received the big news about Blood Dawn’s departure from Inkshares, it’s possible I might have missed someone.

    Yes, it’s true, my email wasn’t hacked. Blood Dawn is leaving Inkshares.

    Despite funding for Quill and being well on track to hit 750 pre-orders by August, I have chosen to pull Blood Dawn from Inkshares later this week.

    There are many sides to this decision. It has been looming over me for about a month and a half, and ultimately is about preserving my own creative energy so that I can get to the polished third draft I want to pass over to production. This has been a difficult and painful choice, however ultimately the crowdfunding model has placed too much strain on me mentally and emotionally and my priority, beyond the desire to build a readership for Blood Dawn, is to make sure Blood Dawn is as amazing as it can be. Even though it is hard and to many people disappointing, I am convinced this is the right choice.

    I want you all to know that Blood Dawn will have a bright future and the book you backed or followed will someday soon be ready for you to read. If you backed this book, you will be refunded as soon as it is taken from the website (likely this Friday).

    So what is the future of Blood Dawn?

    To find out and be a part of that, make sure  you’re on my newsletter, as it will be the new home for Blood Dawn. Please make sure you get on it right away so you can follow along weekly my creative journey, including access to exclusive fan content.

    This Friday, I will be going into depth on my choice to leave and prospects for the future. Here’s a link:

    http://www.epicfantasywriter.com/johns-newsletter


    The Inkshares platform brought out one great thing for me, and this will continue, as it is the quality which I think has been the definition of my success: the ability to unite authors and inspire a spirit of collaboration as we endeavor to reach our readers.

    When I joined this platform one year ago, it was very isolated and crowdfunding campaigns felt like islands. I wanted to change that, and I did.

    It started with a simple extra step to a thank you email:

    If someone was an author and they backed my book, I checked out their book and asked them if they wanted to work together. It’s amazing how many responses that generated, how many group emails sprung up, how full my inbox was every day. That movement snowballed and soon we formed a community that now is more than 500 strong on Goodreads. Numerous collaborations have sprung up in subgroups of this group, and still ideas guide our way toward growth and evolution.

    I have been regarded as the leader of this community, however this label is false. Instead, the leader of this community is no one person but a spirit that exists between us. All of you reading this now who are authors, I want you to know that in my departure, there is no reason the light that has burned brightly on Inkshares needs to diminish. In fact, it is my hope that in stepping away it will inspire others to step forward and add to what we have all been doing together from the beginning.

    I am leaving Inkshares, but I am not disappearing into outer space. I am grateful for the more than 100 email friendships I have begun here with fans and fellow authors, and expect that to continue as this journey moves on.

    Thank you to everyone who has supported me and this project.  Again, the link to where you can follow my progress in my creative work is:

    http://www.epicfantasywriter.com/johns-newsletter

    For those here on Inkshares, keep doing what your’e doing, and let’s stay connected through email and our other collaborations. 

    John Robin
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      Greetings Jackolytes,

      I just got some very cool news! Sync City has just reached its Quill funding goal. This means Jack’s going to saddle up and be banging on your front door sometime in the not too distant future. Thanks very much for all your support – it’s come from all over the place, and it’s fantastic that you all have been able to come along for the ride.

      And when Jack does bang on your front door, let him in – he’ll probably bring beer (unless he’s drunk it already).

      Cheers,

      Peter 

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        ATTENTION:

        T-minus 7 days and counting until the publication ofAgeless!

         That’s right, we are one week away! 

         This quick update is just to remind you to please find some time to post a review on Amazon and Goodreads by the publication date. (BTW, as of this writing the reviews are all pretty great)

        Here are a couple of great reviews: Examiner.com & Julie Literary Reviews

        DragonCon is a yearly event in Atlanta and this year for their 30th anniversary they’ve decided to create their own awards for SciFi and Fantasy called, what else, The Dragon Awards! If you enjoyed Ageless consider nominating me for an award. (Alternate History or Military SciFi would be the categories most like Ageless, yeah it’s hard to categorize) 

        Thanks for your support! 

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          ATTENTION:

          T-minus 7 days and counting until the publication of Ageless!

           That’s right, we are one week away! 

           This quick update is just to remind you to please find some time to post a review on Amazon and Goodreads by the publication date. (BTW, as of this writing the reviews are all pretty great)

          Here are a couple of great reviews: Examiner.com & Julie Literary Reviews

          DragonCon is a yearly event in Atlanta and this year for their 30th anniversary they’ve decided to create their own awards for SciFi and Fantasy called, what else, The Dragon Awards! If you enjoyed Ageless consider nominating me for an award. (Alternate History or Military SciFi would be the categories most like Ageless, yeah it’s hard to categorize) 

          Thanks for your support! 

          7 MORE DAYS!

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            Psst...this message is to all those who have preordered DHM.  

            Chapter 5 is now available for your consideration. Your codes for chapter 4 will give you access to the chapter, just follow the instructions in the email Isidore sent.

            And for those just following the book with interest, you can get access to the full first draft as it’s being written. All you need to do is preorder the book and sign up for my email newsletter so that I have permission to send you email updates like the one that contains instructions on how to read the book. You’ll want to read chapter 5, trust me, if only for the chimichangas.

            I’ve just started writing chapter 6, but I’m hoping to have it done either today or tomorrow. I really want to see how close to done I can be with the draft by the end of the month. Trouble is, more cool stuff keeps getting added to the book, so the length has so far expanded by two chapters. Like the chimichangas. Did I mention the chimichangas?

            Have a great Tuesday, and feel free to let me know what you think of the book in the comments here, or on Facebook, Twitter, or hit me up via email: amanda [at] goldleafbooks [dot]com.  

            Okay, back to writing!  

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