Craig A. Munro liked an update for The Catcher’s Trap

Dear friends:

Every once in a while, I get an e-mail from Inkshares with the subject line “You’re Selling Books.” Opening those e-mails is like opening a long awaited present. Those e-mails mean that a bookstore has decided to take a chance on my novel, and it will be carrying one or several copies of The Catcher’s Trap.

The first thing I do when I get those e-mails is googling the bookstore, finding out where is located and then sending them a thank you tweet for taking a chance with a new author.

So far six independent bookstores will be carrying my book: A. C. Vroman, in Pasadena, Ca. Common Good Books, in St. Paul MN. Tattered Cover in Denver CO. Prairie Lights Book, in IOWA City IA, Mysterious Galaxy Books, in San Diego CA and Flyleaf Book, in Chapel Hill NC.

There are over sixteen hundred independent bookstores in the U.S. It would be a dream come true if all of them carry my book, but, in the meantime, I’m thankful for those 6.

Hopefully, a bookstore in my home state of Connecticut will take a chance on me.

I also dream about taking a road trip and visiting every single one of the bookstores carrying my book. So far my map looks like this:

My trip would cover 4 thousand miles and it will take 61 hours of driving. If I’m lucky, and readers love my book as much as I do, many other stops will be added. Maybe I’ll have to take a year off to cover them all. An author can dream, right?

Have a wonderful weekend!

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Craig A. Munro liked an update for Monkey Business

Thank you to all 28 of you wonderful people who have left an Amazon review. You are all, to quote the great William Shakespeare, awesome as f**k.

So if you have a few minutes this weekend, leave a review! Be part of the super awesome 100 people who help make this little book a true American classic. Your grandchildren might be reading this book in English class. But only with your help! And only if English class really goes downhill. A boy can dream.

If you’re wondering why reviews are so important, here’s a little bit of info: If you went to Amazon and searched "monkey business" the first week the book was published it was somewhere around 112 down the list of search results. If you do it today it’s the third result. Behind one other business book and a Marilyn Monroe movie. Marilyn Monroe! I’m told if we make it to 100 reviews even more magical things start to happen.

I don’t know what those magical things are but I’m excited to find out!

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Craig A. Munro liked the forum thread, When did you open preorders?

Shawn

I fully funded and I think that the answer to your question is not on how many followers do you have, but in how many commitments you currently have to pre-order you r book. The bulk of your pre-orders will (or will need to) come from your personal network, the rest will be support from other authors (if you are good at building community) and the smallest piece from strangers that just will run into your project and think is awesome.

Inkshares is a crowdfunding platform and the number one rule in crowdfunding is knowing that you already have a committed base that is ready to support you as soon as you say go!

Thing that you should ask yourself: do you have a big enough social circle, how comfortable do you feel asking people for money, how comfortable are you following up with people several times.

In my opinion your number of followers on Inkshares is irrelevant because many of them are nothing but other authors who want you to buy their book .

I put together some crowdfunding resources in my website, feel free to check them out. Maybe you’ll find something useful www.ricardophenriquez.com

Good luck

Ricardo

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Craig A. Munro liked an update for The Seventh Age: Dawn

Greetings friends... today we have some excellent content for you to slice through while you await the season finale of Game of Thrones.

First up: My final copy edited chapter 1. While the entire book is done, I’m only putting up chapter one for you guys to read. If you want to have some literary fun and compare the old chapter 1 vs the copy and proof edited version I’ve made it easy.

Click HERE for the old one.

Click HERE for the NEW FINAL SUPER AWESOME one.

When you are done, feel free to leave a review. Consider it practice for when I start showing up at your houses begging you to leave other reviews on Amazon or Goodreads in November.

Next: We cleared the milestone mark of 1k! I did an interview with Chris Irvin (Author of Wrestletown) for his blog HERE. Finally, Publishers Weekly has listed The Seventh Age (Gotta scroll down a bit, but I made the list!)

I’m waiting on some final artwork before I begin the raffles, so I’ve decided to leave it open. Anyone who preorders a copy of The Seventh Age before I get my final demon hunter kit ready for raffle and the art needed will be eligible. (Thinking early July).