It’s been a full 1 year anniversary! So, time for a bloody damn hand-biting update. 

I’ve finished the first draft of the sequel! Pix Pl0x is 100% done and is going up on Amazon later this week (announcement on that soon) and I need more reviews on the original. 

If you’ve read the first book - Please go here and leave a review. 

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In other news, now that I’m done with the 1st draft of book 2. I’m in the market for more awesome art. If you know anyone who wants to do some doodling so I can start building more awesome art like this Death Lords from the 7th Age!

But please please please - It’s review time guys. 



You’ll hear more in the coming weeks now that projects are finished and work on production begins in earnest. 

Thank you for everything in the past year!

I Am Waltz releases in 18 days! Are you prepared?

Update Details: Will you receive your book?! (MUST READ INFO) | New Trailer | Official Cover | Goodreads Giveaway | and More!

Hello Readers:

It has been a long time since so many of you pre-ordered the first in my new sci-fi trilogy, I Am Waltz. Again, thank you so much. Today, I am happy to announce that your patience has paid off and the wait is officially over, because I Am Waltz is releasing on 2/6/18! 

As such, I have a lot of exciting news to share with all of you:

NEW TRAILER:

A good friend of mine worked closely with me since May of 2017 to create this promotional teaser trailer for I Am Waltz. I wanted to share the excitement with you and hope you all enjoy it. 

Please feel free to share with your friends and family on social media or in the real world and tell them how excited you are to be of the first to read I Am Waltz.

Share/Watch on YouTube or Facebook

Or click the Play Button to watch on YouTube:

OFFICIAL COVER:

The very talented Jordan Butcher of Studio Workhorse designed the official front and back cover art for I Am Waltz and I am so excited to share it all with you. Please enjoy below and relish in the joy that soon you’ll be able to hold this cover in your very hands. Follow Studio Workhorse on Instagram and show some love.

GoodReads Giveaway!

While many of you have ordered I Am Waltz already, we are excited to announce a new Goodreads Giveaway going now through 2/18/18 where anyone can enter to win 1 of 10 signed, first edition copies of I Am Waltz. If you’ve pre-ordered, please enter again and maybe you’ll win an additional copy for a friend, family member, or for your own selfish self! 

If you have not yet pre-ordered, go ahead and enter. Maybe you will win. But you should just order anyway.

Share the Giveaway with your friends on Facebook and tell them how exciting it will be to read I Am Waltz together! The more the merrier!

Share/Enter Giveaway Link: https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/275102-i-am-waltz

WILL YOU RECEIVE YOUR BOOK?

As I said at the beginning of this email, many of you ordered I Am Waltz a long time ago. You may have moved in that time and I encourage all of you to login to your Inkshares account and make sure your address is up to date! The book releases in 18 days and I wouldn’t want you to miss out! Take action now!

FOR THOSE WHO DID NOT ORDER YET?

Some of you, who have actually read this deep into the email have not ordered the book! I wonder why? Hopefully the trailer, cover art, and fact that this book is real, releasing soon, and will be followed up by two awesome sequels has sold you on ordering.

Well now you can order in so many places you have NO reason not to. 

Of course, if you care about publishing, my wonderful publisher Inkshares, and me, you’ll order from Inkshares here $7.99 eBook | $14.99 Paperback

But maybe you like other platforms, fine. 

You can order I Am Waltz almost anywhere and I will not provide links:

Amazon: $7.99 ebook | $14.99 Paperback

Barnes & Noble: $7.49 Nook Book | $14.99 Paperback

Apple iBooks: $7.99 ebook

Google Books: $6.49 ebook 

Walmart: $14.99 Paperback (Yes, even Walmart!)

I doubt anyone is still reading, but if you are, kudos to you. 

Again, thank you all again. Can’t wait for you all to read I Am Waltz and hear your feedback. Please leave reviews on Amazon when you finish reading and keep an eye out for updates on the sequel currently under working title IAW2.

-MATTHEW D. DHO

Today is a great day, thanks to you, and Inkshares. 

I can honestly say I wouldn’t be where I am without the experience I had working with Inkshares on Sunshine is Forever. I have had both negative and positive experiences with the company, but I know their editorial process really improved my writing and taught me a ton. I want to thank Inkshares and all of you for supporting me with this book. You helped elevate me to the next level.

I’ve been querying to get a writing agent for 7 years. Well, I can finally announce that I have officially accepted representation with Jennifer Soloway at Andrea Brown Lit. I am thrilled! Here’s to a long and prosperous writing career! 

http://www.andreabrownlit.com/

I appreciate all of you! Don’t forget to review Sunshine is Forever on AMAZON!

Kyle T. Cowan

Here we go.

Blue Water has now reached the front of the line at Inkshares. I first want to thank you all for your patience with the lack of updates since we reached our funding goal two Novembers ago. I know that it can be frustrating not hearing any new information. Believe me, that won’t be a problem anymore. Inkshares has been in contact quite often now that it’s our turn.

Here’s a quick overview of how it’s going to go from here. Currently, the novel has gone through the preliminary copy edit. The changes have been sent to me, and I’ve gone through them all and am sending the book back with notes on the changes. After that, Blue Water’s final manuscript will be sent back to me in the first week of February. The book’s final cover for the eBooks will be done and sent to you all to check out first in March, the full cover in April.

And the big date, the day the book is available to the public: June 5, 2018. 

However, you guys are the backers. If it weren’t for each and every one of you (literally, we sold just barely over the goal to make Quill), none of this would be happening. So again, I have to thank you, not just for your patience, but for believing in a first time writer and a book you’ve never read. So, you guys won’t have to wait until the publish date, your copies will be mailed or available for download a few weeks early. The goal is that you guys all check it out first and tell your friends about it before release day. So I may have to call you you again to help spread the word again. We currently have sold 263 copies, and I’ve backed off selling during the information vacuum of 2017. My third thanks to all of you is to buy the book with no information on when you’d receive it. That is a hard sell, and you guys all came though. Now, I’m going to take the next six months and start the selling again. Luckily for you, you already bought it, so I won’t bug you (although it would make a great birthday gift for everyone you know.) 

So three thanks to you all. Thank you, thank you, thank you. We’ll be in touch.

Joseph Parcell

I got some numbers for you. 

Do you know what this means?!?! I FINISHED EDITING MY NOVEL!!! It was quite a slog for me. I’m not one of those writers that can easily overlook the minutiae in order to focus on the bigger picture. My editor gave me some great notes calling for some big sweeping changes and clarifications, but even still, if I saw something on the page that bothered me (and gosh was there a LOT that bothered me), I had to change it. Staring at pages like these was how I spent what little free time I had for the past four months:

Look at all those revisions!!! Just to be clear, this is not the end of the editing process. It’s back with the Editor / Head of Story at Inkshares, Matt Harry, who’ll look over the changes and make further suggestions. (Hopefully I cleared the higher hurdles the first time around the track and the next lap is easier.) From there, somebody’s gotta clean up my terrible, awful, hideous, redundant word choice… Cover design conversations with the artist… Where is this all going, you ask?! Well, it means it will still be a wait. I’m keeping my fingers crossed for a 2018 release, but I can’t say for sure.

In the meantime, I literally don’t know what to do with myself any more. If I’m not working on something, I’m getting ANTSY. While I wait for the Inkshares wheel to turn another notch in Animal in Man’s production track, I’ll be putting more words down for my next novel “The White Shadow”, which you can read the first few chapters of HERE. (I added a chapter to my website since the previous time posting about it, and I’m eleven chapters beyond that point in the writing.) I might even be putting up an Inkshares draft page for the book soon. Who knows.

To all of my supporters, all of you who’ve hung in there this long and longer: Thank you.

Happy New Year my friends!

Well, 2017 won’t be accused of being uneventful. I think it’s safe to say that it will go down as a year with many bitter memories for some. I lucked out however and, form me, 2017 turned out to be an awesome year. I owe it all to readers and book lovers exactly like you. My horror novel, A God in the Shed got published sold over 5300 copies and we’re now staring down the barrel of the sequel going into production and all of it is because someone like you took a chance.

My gratitude knows no bounds.

But, I will be asking you to trust me again. I have another book currently funding on Inkshares. It’s an indirect sequel to The Life Engineered titled Arch-Android. It’s the story of our robot descendants and how they’ve lived without human interference for centuries, but now, as signs of humanity making a comeback start to appear, they have to decide how best to prepare sharing the galaxy with us once again. Check out the sample chapter and please, consider pre-ordering a copy (or more!). There are some familiar names and places in Arch-Android and if you enjoyed The Life Engineered, you’ll love this book too.

Again, thank you so much for your continued support. Great things are coming in 2018 and I’m looking forward to sharing that journey with you.

JF