This should have been communicated BUT if the printing got delayed and if they had got he books signed you might not have got them before the launch date so Inkshares staff made the call to get you the books now even if a few of you had expected signed copies.

SO. To make up for that for those of you who had backed under the expectation of getting a signed copy, Inkshares is going to work with Dan Stiles, the cover artists to make a limited edition print of an alternate cover for Pilot X (of which there were some great ones). They’ll send those to me to sign and we’ll get them out to you.

And it should go without saying that if I’m in your area I will *definitely* sign your book. And if you want to send them to me to sign, I can work with you on that too. Just message me here. 

More details on the limited edition prints will come in an email from Inkshares, probably Monday. 

Thanks again for making this book possible and my apologies for the confusion here.

Cheers,

Tom

Pilot X became a character for me on April 16, 1997, when I wrote a story on my satirical news website about a crashed pilot in Colorado. I didn’t call him Pilot X in the story but that’s how I thought of him. http://www.subbrilliant.com/subarc0497.html#Jetcrash 

He kicked around in my head for awhile and I began using him as a byline on November 5, 1997. The idea is the crashed pilot from the earlier story would be Subbrilliant News’ reporter from heaven or hell. 

http://www.subbrilliant.com/subarc1197.html

The name kicked around for awhile. And when I started toying with the idea of a story with a timeship pilot, I pulled the name out of cold storage in my brain. 

On December 17, 2013, I jotted down the first bit of story on my experimental blog, called Pilot X: The Tower.

http://www.subbrilliant.com/blog/?p=413

I kept posting little snippets and treatments until September 20, 2014. Then in November 2014, I wrote Pilot X as my National Novel Writing Month project. 

Anyway, not sure who interesting that may be but figured I’d share a little of the history of Pilot X’s name as he steps out into the published stage of his existence.

So thanks to the brilliance of Avalon and team, we decided to get the ebook out to you as a special Valentine’s Day present. While paper copies are in the mail, this is the first actual chance for backers to read the finalized version of Pilot X. 

I’ll just be over here in the corner chewing my fingernails while you read....

Hope you enjoy!

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