Yo readers,

  It’s finally Wednesday, and you know what that means...another chapter update! The long awaited final chapter I will be posting on here: Chapter Four: Society, is up and ready for you all to read. Sorry for the late update, but I had a long meeting earlier about college, money, etc., so please excuse me if this is a bad time! Now, from now on, there will only be organized updates for Sunday, and I may update you all occasionally outside of the regular schedule for any important information, or certain things I would like to share with all of you. Comment, recommend or message me about the last chapter if you’d like to. It all gets better from here on!

  Remember, enjoy your morning/evening wherever you are.

  Until next time, Sixth.

Happy Belated Pubday to Monkey Business!

Monkey Business is done. Available for buying. Available for reading. Available for loving. 

I will do a much better update tomorrow but for now I just want to say thank you to everyone who has been kind enough to support this book. Thank you to Inkshares. Thank you to Girl Friday Productions. Thank you to everyone who is getting this update. You’re all the best.

I have signed all your preorder copies and they should be getting to you in about two weeks (maybe sooner!) I was unable to think of a unique quote to write in every single book but I was able to write something different in a lot of them. As a consequence some of you are going to get some pretty weird shit in your books. I hope it makes it a little more special. Here’s one of my favorites:

One of you (and I have no way of knowing who it will be) is getting an actual 4-leaf clover in your book. Because I found one that day and thought it would be a nice gesture. So whoever you are, enjoy that. I hope it brings you luck.

I’ll write again this week with a proper update. Thank you. Hugs and Kisses from me and all those hairy little foul-mouthed monkeys you’ve helped support.

- Landon

Hello new Inkshares friends! I wanted to let you know that Reset the System moved quickly from a novel idea to a manuscript draft this spring, after I had strong encouragement from a constant reader and fierce critic that I have trusted for a long time. I am enjoying working with this manuscript so much, that I even had a temporary cover worked up (available for your viewing pleasure now) and am contemplating launching a campaign for funding, perhaps later this summer, or - and this is my preference - in September and through the fall season. 

I recently completed the first draft of the book at the cabin this weekend, though some things are a little raw, and I am planning to release a few chapters over the next few weeks as I re-draft the book, to keep you interested and hopefully to encourage you to share the book with your own networks! If you are at all interested in Science Fiction or posthumanism, then I think you are really going to like this story. But even if those things are not your bag (baby), then I’m sure you know other peeps on Inkshares that might be into it. 

I am looking forward to getting to know many of you as much as I can in the coming weeks and months! So far my favourite thing about Inkshares, is that it reminds me of a larger (much larger) version of a great advanced creative writing class I was once part of, with many members of the community very generous with their time and patience, commenting on each other’s writing and providing some constructive criticism. That by the way, is a personal goal of mine...to try to chime in every now and then with some useful feedback about the actual nuts and bolts of the writing, and not only to shine people on...though, every now and then, someone either needs or deserves a bit of shining. I would love to hear from some of you when the first full chapter of Reset the System goes up this weekend! What I have there now was just a teaser while I was finishing the novel draft.

If you are interested in learning a bit more about me, check out my blog, also a work in progress...or of course, DM me and we can chat writing and favourite books. Don’t be shy to push your own projects on me too as they develop...I am a voracious reader by trade and choice.

Best wishes and happy summer,

Jeremy R. Strong

Hey Hey Readers! I’ve got a surprise for you.  Here is yet another piece of concept art from one of my new artists!  What do you think of her depiction of the Morrighan?  

Well, I keep telling myself not to bother people, but another huge thing has happened...

I just finished up an interview with Alicia Smoke at Examiner.com! I’m going to be featured in an article on the website! As soon as I have the link I will let you know, so be on the look out for that. 

Right now we are 6 days ahead of the projection at 84 orders! That means in 8 days I’ve had 84 orders, and I’m like: So many people have ordered more than one copy, Billy, Jason, Johnathan, Joseph, Joseph again, and Leah! In the guest blog post http://apotheosisstudios.com/blog/2016/5/23/the-sleeping-man-guest-post-by-stephen-carigan I’ve used some of your names in supplemental history of the world. 

Thank you in advance and let’s keep this up! Keep sharing, keep recommending, and keep cornering people in the street and several implying something bad will happen to people if they don’t order, you know, the legally gray area! Just kidding, mostly.

Sweet dreams,

Stephen Carignan

I just love it when characters cross genres, especially when they "do it" to support their fellow characters. The imposing Sandor Clegane, aka The Hound, has graciously crossed over from his lofty high fantasy perch in support of his sci-fi brother Mat of Mission 51. The Hound would like you to place your pre-order ASAP!

Seriously, you should place your pre-order. We should not deny a man his dying wish!

Thank you, Sandor, for your support! :-)

https://www.inkshares.com/books/mission-51?referral_code=13a0d0cd

So, I’ve gained quite a few more followers than I thought in such a short amount of time. Everyone seems to be really active and supportive on this site; it’s refreshing considering, well, this is the internet.

So to bring everyone up to speed and to smooth out my thoughts on what I’m working on:

I have a rough draft already scribbled by hand into a Moleskine, and now I am working on scribing this into digital format while also polishing, adding detail, developing the characters, etc; all that writery stuff.

I have plans for multiple... sequels? They don’t involve the same characters, necessarily, but they do take place within the same universe/world. I have a solid idea for a second book, and some murky ideas on a third and fourth (plant zombies?). 

The books aren’t just about the plot, but the plot helps define the world around it. I am really writing books about the state of man in the future and what everything has turned into and the whys and hows are up to the reader to figure out with some nudging clues from yours truly. I guess the plots are pretty cool too.

My writing has heavy influences from Dungeons and Dragons, Lovecraft, Asimov, Douglas Adams, I don’t know, maybe other stuff. Mainly the tabletop RPG is what drove me to write. The Origin universe was originally a campaign setting I was going to run as a first time DM in which I told the players to come up with anything they want to be and I would figure out rules. This necessitated an infinite universe where anything could be possible, and so it is. Science Fiction mixed with fantasy elements the Origin universe is essentially the D&D fantasy universe fast forwarded by a few thousand years, with our own universe intertwined. Everything that happens in the real world is canon in Origin.

This is a lot to read, so good on ya for sticking it out if you’re still reading. I am learning a lot about writing as I go and what I have down so far is much better than the sample draft I have uploaded. I hope to go back soon and rewrite the first three chapters, but not from the ground up, just some more polishing.

So thank you for following,

Mike 

So... this happened.

That’s G.(LORIOUS) Derek Adams, author of ASTEROID MADE OF DRAGONS, and myself (left) at XCON World Comic Convention in Myrtle Beach this past weekend. We sold some books, had some fun, and saw some fantastic cosplay (see below). 

There also may or may not have been a lightly attended panel about crowdfunding hosted by those two handsome devils above.

Also...this happened.

SOOO...FRIENDLY REMINDER - Please review AGELESS on Amazon and Goodreads

And, AGELESS ebook has been lowered to $2.99 for some time now. Share it with people you love! Or people that you hate...just get the word out. 

Thanks everyone! KEEP SCROLLING FOR SOME COSPLAY!