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Greetings Hexers and Machina Riders:

Do we have some things to talk about!  So much has happened in the last week my head is spinning. Let’s get right to it:

Extra Life Stream this Evening

I’ll be streaming Heroes of the Storm tonight for the Extra Life charity over on my Twitch channel, starting at 6 PM CST and running until midnight. Come cheer me on as I main Sylvanas and try to figure out if I can still snipe towers behind enemy gates. It should be fun times.  

Donate to my Extra Life fund

If you watch (and even if you can’t) help me get to $100 by donating here. I have already raised $40 for kids in need, so I’m 1/3 of the way there. Woncha help out?

The List 2016 contest

This week Inkshares announced which books were selected for their end-of--the-year contest, and Deus Hex Machina is on The List!  It’s a crazy big honor to be among such amazing books and their authors which leads me to my next item on the agenda:

A ton more Deus Hex Machina stuff is coming

A new contest means a new campaign, so I’ve been working in the last few days to shape what a second campaign for DHM would look like. Astute readers among you will already notice I’ve updated the book’s Inshares page, refereshed my cover concept, and put up a couple new character bios. In addition I have uploaded the revised first chapter from the 2nd draft -- I think you’ll be happy with the changes. 

My edit is plugging right along, and won’t stop just because another contest has popped into my life. You don’t stop feeding your kids just because extended family dropped by unannounced. You pull up extra chairs and make more desserts.

And I plan on more desserts friends. I will try to keep the updates meaningful throughout this contest, but I do have a good amount of fun stuff planned, and I want to share it all with you. 

My goal for this campaign will be to get to 400 readers. It’s a huge crazy unimaginable number, but I think we can do it. If you’re following the book but haven’t purchased, I’ll be reaching out to you personally in the coming weeks to ask for your order. If you have purchased the book, I’ll be reaching out to you personally to ask for your referral. 

In exchange for your support of the book I have planned more goodies: live-edits, fan art contests, a contest for the ARG -- yes Qathren YOBIBYTE got the jump on you Sombra. You got nothin’ on a hexer from the future.

It’s gonna be a fun, weird ride, and I hope you’ll join me. I’ll see you tonight. 

May the code replicate eternal.

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    Hi All, We were giving everyone 24 hours to "opt out" and we’ll add you all into the contest tomorrow.   
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      Yesterday was... well yesterday was yesterday and that’s all I’ll say on that.

      Unfortunately Magus failed to fund and its campaign ended yesterday, so this update doesn’t get to be a celebratory one.  I also overslept and have to hit the road soon, so it also doesn’t get to be the detailed update (with pictures) that I had originally planned.

      In short, I’m not giving up on Magus and will continue working on a way to get into all of your hands.  I have a rough plan for that, but no time to go into it now, so I’ll just focus on the first step.  While posting up new chapters over the past year I’ve seen places to make relatively minor tweaks, so step one is to comb through the entirety of the book to make a number of small changes which I thought I had already done.  As they are small changes I don’t expect this will take more than a week or 2.

      Like I said this one is short due to time constraints, I’ll likely hold off on a more detailed update until next week when I’m further along with revisions and detailed planning.

      Thanks to everyone who supported this book.  Despite not funding I made the progress in 3 months that it previously took me 5 months to make, and that was with some new readers coming on board as well, so that shows me that I have managed to grow interest in this book which is quite encouraging to me.  Hopefully you’ll follow me into the future of this book as well.

      Keep reading, and enjoying!
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        Quick question: Did the invites go out yesterday? If not, when should we expect them?
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          One intrepid investigator has discovered you don’t even need the code! You can put anything after the properties part of the URL and still see your page. e.g. https://www.inkshares.com/books/fae-child/properties/wow
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            You used to be able to access your "Properties" (movie/TV rights, audiobook, foreign language) page through your book’s dashboard, but that link disappeared a few months ago. But the page is still there! Here, look at mine: https://www.inkshares.com/books/fae-child/properties/791b7b

            Each book has a unique code assigned to it. For Fae Child that is the "791b7b" bit at the end. You can find your unique code by clicking on a "popular excerpt" or a review of your book. Or any book, really! Here are the properties pages for Devil’s Call and Filicide, for example: https://www.inkshares.com/books/devil-s-call/properties/be4481 https://www.inkshares.com/books/filicide/properties/da0ea7

            On your page you can edit it - choose which reviews or recommendations you want to show (it picks the top two), and add similar books or movies. Hope this is helpful! Have fun! :D
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            I love the voice of your main character -this is an exciting start and I can’t wait to read the rest of it.
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