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We did it!  You did it!  With your help, After Man took second place in the Geek and Sundry contest.  Michelle and I are so grateful for your support, especially the Rise supporters who came back to help again.  We now move our focus to getting the rewrite finished and off to Inkshares for developmental edit.

For the new followers that came on board in the first 24 hours after the contest ended but were unable to pre-order because of the glitch that turned After Man into an unfunded book, the problem has been fixed.

Stay tuned next week for the Geek and Sundry announcement of which of the three contest winners gets the nod as the first book in the Geek and Sundry collection.  If you haven’t checked out the other two winning books, I encourage you to do so now.  You can find links to them here.

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    So I added some new information to the Project Human page. Y’all should go check it out.

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    Psst, there’s a tentative funding start date!

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    Also, I’m going for the win with Project Human. It deserves nothing less than all the publishing perks Inkshares has to offer it . . . including hardcover. Yes, it will be published in hardcover. If that means the majority of the funding orders are e-books until the mainstream hardcover price is set (probably under the current funding price of $30) then so be it. But I won’t budge on hardcover, even if it takes a year and a half to fund.

    I am already planning goodies and raffles and cool stuff for supporters. I want to spill ALL THE PLANS, but I shall let you wonder instead. I can say there will be T-shirts and artwork involved. Maybe a robot, too.

    We’ll see.

    And so, back to working on that first chapter I promised I’d share at 100 followers. 400 more followers and I’ll start to feel good about this reaching full publication whenever funding starts, because each one of you IS going to order . . . right?

    So go. Recommend the heck out of this draft. Please.

    Anyway. If you haven’t already heard the buzz, my currently-funding project Scribbles has just 2 days and 23 orders to go. You’d be able to read it before Project Human, so I recommend grabbing a copy while you still can get a free book with it, too.

    Scribbles order link: https://www.inkshares.com/books/scribbles-a-collection-of-words

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      @Peter Ryan Thanks in return! Make sure to keep us updated when you get a release date. I can’t wait to read this book!
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        James Rasile liked the forum thread, Some help tweaking my book page
        Hi Suaine!
        You’ve got a good start to your project page. I have some suggestions, though everyone has their own style, of course...

        I followed the link to your visuals for your characters (Derek Hale!! Grumpy cuddle monster of my heart!!) and I think you should put those images on your project page! The cover you have at the link might even be better than the one you have up on Inkshares, since people connect better to faces. Faces are good to have on your book cover.

        You should add any links you might have to blogs (that you want to associate with your campaign), twitter, facebook, pinterest, etc etc.

        I’d mention the main characters by the names you call them throughout the book in your synopsis - do you call them Captain Pierce and Commander Pham, or Meg and Jasmine? The former sounds more distancing, and you want people to connect with them as quickly as possible.

        Other than that, the only thing I tend to recommend is coming up with some comparisons to help people understand your book more easily - "If you liked ___________ and _____________, you’ll love my book!"

        "A cross between ___________ and ____________, etc."

        "If you loved ________________ but wanted more ___________, you’ll love my book!"

        :) :) :)
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          In just one short chapter, the author has given us a strong sense of the world and the characters within it. Peppering in updated expressions the reader is no doubt familiar with, blends the narrative voice with that of the characters so that the reader is drawn into the world while empathizing with the protagonist. There is also a healthy amount of mystery to keep the pages turning. I look forward to more.
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            In just one short chapter, the author has given us a strong sense of the world and the characters within it. Peppering in updated expressions the reader is no doubt familiar with, blends the narrative voice with that of the characters so that the reader is drawn into the world while empathizing with the protagonist. There is also a healthy amount of mystery to keep the pages turning. I look forward to more.
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