Good day sentients!

I’ll get to the news in a moment, but first I want to do a little push. Again. Don’t worry, this one won’t cost you a penny, just a few moments of your time.

You know what’s awesome about books? The best part some would say? Being able to chat about the book with your friends. A lot of you enjoyed The Life Engineered and that fact brings me immeasurable joy. But what if we could get more people? I’m not going to ask you to promote The Life Engineered. I mean, talk about it, by all means, but what I want from you is help getting my book nominated for the Dragon Awards.

DragonCon is huge and these awards are going to be huge. Just getting a nomination would be a tremendous honour, and since these are submitted by readers like you, why not give it a shot?

Just check out the nomination page and enter The Life Engineered in the Science Fiction Novel field, fill in the rest with whatever you feel is deserving and voila! You’re done. You’ve helped me. And think of it this way; if I get nominated, I kind of have to go to DragonCon. So this is a way you can force me to spend money.

The News:

As you probably know by now, my second book A God in the Shed has reached its funding goal and will be published on Inkshares. Over the coming weekend I’ll be hard at work filling out the paperwork and doing a final polish to the manuscript before sending everything out to Inkshares for editing.

While Inkshares and Girl Friday Productions are working on all this, I’ll be finishing the first draft for ArchAndroid. This means that we are rapidly approaching the day when I call out for beta readers. Parallel to that, I’m preparing the funding campaign for ArchAndroid which is both a terrifying and exciting endeavour. I’m eager to get this book out there but terrified at doing another funding campaign.

Thanks again for your support my friends. I’m working on a little promotional thing with Inkshares to distribute some more signed prints to readers.

Cheers,

JF

QUILL ACHIEVED, SPACE CREW. 

We hit 250 last night, which means this book is going to be published. Let’s take a moment to breathe. This was made possible by all of you (our relentless Crew), with the last Quill order going to our honourary Quill Captain, Micah Baker. 

If you want to pick up his intriguing book, which is a sinister sort of space opera, you can do that here.

So What Happens Now?

First, the good. 

• Once the campaign ends I’ll be working with the crew at Inkshares to talk deadlines and a publishing schedule. This is happening!
  
  
• I can now officially pledge funds to BuildOn, the literacy charity I’ve partnered with. They’ll be getting 25% of my profits. 
  
  
• Your prizes are guaranteed. All the prizes that don’t rely on numbers of pre-orders will be happening. 
  
  

And the reality: 

•  This is where we are right now. Yes, The Traveller’s Cup is getting published, but it’s not fully funded
  
  
• Fully-funded means that Inkshares will take care of a lot of the publishing "dirty work". Editing, marketing, distribution, etc. 

• Since they’ll take on those services it frees me up to give more time to producing a solid book, and leaves me with more funds to give to prizes, and to increase my BuildOn donation from 25% to 50. 

So while we hit a major milestone, you can’t expect the ship to stop here. 

If you’re a member of this Crew, I need you to make it your personal responsibility to help me boost this to 750. Tell a friend. Order a copy for your mom. You can make a huge difference. 

Your Cautiously Celebratory Space Captain,
-AC

  Okay guys, here’s the deal; I’ve got 11 days to move 72 copies. Not impossible but If I can move 10-15 in the next 24 hours I’ll be in a good position to negotiate an extension. This is what I need; any of you who have been waiting to pre-order, or know someone who would like to, its now your time to shine! If everyone within "earshot" of this shared and retweeted this post it should get us to where we need to be. Thank you all for your support so far. We’re almost there you guys! We’re counting on you. 

                                                  "Yippee-Ki-Yay, Maternalprocreator!" 

As a politically correct Detective John McClane might have said in a children’s version of Die Hard...we did it, or rather a large percentage of you did it!  We made QUILL...so a heartfelt thanks to all of you who pre-ordered Louisiana Blood and dragged it out of the swamp into the light of day.  

I’ll be doing some personal thanks to a certain amount of you who went above and beyond the call of duty to support me...you know who you are and I’ll always be grateful for your support and encouragement.  I still have over a week to go before funding closes, so if 50 of you that are millionaires want to buy 10 books each I’m not going to complain!  Otherwise, we’ll leave the big push for when I’m launched onto Amazon.  Now I’m going to celebrate with a small cup of nectar.

Feel free to buy tons more HERE

Greetings Jackolytes,

I just got some very cool news! Sync City has just reached its Quill funding goal. This means Jack’s going to saddle up and be banging on your front door sometime in the not too distant future. Thanks very much for all your support – it’s come from all over the place, and it’s fantastic that you all have been able to come along for the ride.

And when Jack does bang on your front door, let him in – he’ll probably bring beer (unless he’s drunk it already).

Cheers,

Peter 

5 days left, 87 pre-orders until Quill, and a raffle!

Tough odds, but I will continue to plug away. In the meantime, check to see if you’ve won:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SybeSKwKPPY

Also, in other news, I’m looking to line up some help with developmental editing for this book, regardless of the campaign’s outcome. This help will come from a familiar face in the Inkshares community, but first I need a completed manuscript to hand over. I am looking forward to it!

As always, thanks for your support, and tell your friends about my book if you haven’t already. I happen to think they’d like it. :)

-Mike