Hello hello!

Hopefully you’ve had your morning coffee and are ready for your first pair of February recommendations! If not, you can star this email and check back tonight :)

Both of these recommendations are are quickly approaching their deadline. So, I encourage you to check them out with a sense of urgency! Act now!! Limited time offer (and all that jazz)!!!

• Captain by Artie Sievers. Captain is a beautifully written origin story of Captain James Hook, Peter Pan’s famed villain. Fresh and familiar all at once.

• So You Might Be a Vampire by Rodney V. Smith. This is a gritty and sarcastic romp told through the eyes of a subpar vampire named Bob. Watch the video for this one - it’s great!
  

While I still have your attention (I hope!), I’d like to let you know about the new Inkshares forum. If you’re interested in learning more about Inkshares projects, or the process, or if you’d like a chance to talk directly with the authors and fellow readers, now you have a place to do it. I invite you to come introduce yourself and have a look around. Go forth and have fun! 

All, thank you for the support. Things have been progressing well... however, I need to shift up a gear if I am to hit my goal.

To that end, I pledge to give £1 ($1.45) to Cancer Research for every pre-order for the remainder of February.

--- Regardless of whether I hit my funding goal or not ----

I’m excited about the sequel. The heroine, Gwenn, is currently at the top of a mountain in the alps. Later she is going to jump off. But I can’t focus on that because I am spending too much time asking my friends to check out my book. 

Hello!

Boulderoleros!

I made a world map!  You probably recognize a few of these continents.  That one there in the center is where the book takes place.  To the southwest is where the Keima’i people come from.  To the southeast is Rhyfell Proper.  The Grey Crag is too small to see on this map, but it’s part of a triangle extending from the southern tip of Yhur and Rhyfell Proper.  The Immortals and pretty much all life comes from that island to the north west of the Ma’i Islands and to the northwest of that is where the Dwarves and Uurians (centaurs) are banished when the Immortals rise up against the Uurians and take back their sacred cities and lands.  That charred little spot all the way to the southwest?  We don’t talk about that.  You guys are great!  Much love and a thousand thank yous!

Earth, Sea, Empire.

-NDF