Paul Robinson liked the forum thread, Recharged after a refund for a failed campaign?

I am curious, too. I got an update from the author of Devil’s Call today that her campaign had ended and was being relaunched but I never got a refund from my original purchase.

If The List is going to have any kind of consistency it would follow that all campaigns would be reinstated with the orders they had when they ended. It certainly doesn’t make sense to have just ONE campaign have such a favorable start. It’s already an imbalanced contest as it stands since the books that have already made Quill have such an extraordinary lead.

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Paul Robinson liked the forum thread, Recharged after a refund for a failed campaign?

I emailed about this too, but I’m putting a post in here just in case this will get seen first.

I’m confused and concerned. I got an email recently about being refunded for my purchase of Devils Call.

The book is now once again appearing on my bookshelf as having been purchased, without me taking any action to order it again.

Has a payment been taken from my card without my authorisation and without any email to let me know you were going to do this?

If so, this payment should be refunded ASAP as I did not authorise another payment.

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Paul Robinson sent an update for LandFall

So I have some news.

http://blog.inkshares.com/post/153308043055/the-2016-list

LandFall has been nominated for ’The 2016 List’, which is Inkshares’ new (and inaugural) end-of-year contest to highlight ’the top-voted projects that haven’t reached full Inkshares.’ What that means is that, should I enter (which I probably will), I’ll be starting a funding campaign up for that in the coming days.

What it also means, is that I have to do a lot of work fairly quickly.

I’ll be the first to admit that I wasn’t expecting this, like, at all. The original plan for this was to start a campaign around June next year and to have a pretty big chunk of the book written before I even started. But this is an excellent opportunity to secure full funding for the book, something it needs to satisfy the vision in my mind. And it’ll be a long campaign, reaching well past the contest and into my originally intended timeframe to give it the right attention.

When the announcement came this morning I had maybe 5% of the story outlined thoroughly, and another 10% vaguely bullet-pointed. LandFall’s page had a 10 line description.

I didn’t have much.

I had a general idea of where it started and where I wanted it to end, but nothing in the middle. At the same time though, it was obviously enough to garner some attention.

But I need more. Clearly.

So, this afternoon I sat down, fired up ’Hamilton,’ and churned out a little over 1000 words of notes and scribbles that seem to have come together to be at least 3/5’s of a story. And it’s one I think I kinda like. It’s still all pretty general, and there are holes...chasms even...but things are a lot further along than they were yesterday.

Any progress is good progress.

Over the next couple of days, a campaign will likely launch, and it might be a bit bare in here for a little while, but I’m hoping to have that first chapter written this week. Or a version of it at least.

Keep an eye on that horizon.

You never know what you might see.

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Paul Robinson sent an update for Ghosts of War

Update time!

As you can see, things were a bit disrupted again this week, but I solved a few logic problems with Ghosts that I’m really happy about. The thing with this read-through stage is that it doesn’t generate a lot of words. I’ve identified a few areas that need expanding, so words will come then, but for now it’s just tightening everything up.

You might have noticed the big blob of words for LandFall today. Well there’s a reason for that:

http://blog.inkshares.com/post/153308043055/the-2016-list

LandFall has been nominated for ’The 2016 List’, which is Inkshares’ new (and inaugural)end-of-year contest to highlight ’the top-voted projects that haven’t reached full Inkshares’. What that means is that, should I enter (which I probably will), I’ll be starting a funding campaign up for that in the coming days.

What it also means, is that I have to do a lot of work fairly quickly. I’ll be the first to admit that I wasn’t expecting this, like, at all, and Ghosts will still be the primary focus until it’s done. So I’m taking the next couple of days to focus on LandFall and get it set up and then once that’s settled in, it’ll be back to editing Ghosts.

If you want to follow along on the development of LandFall, you follow it at the link below:

https://www.inkshares.com/books/landfall

Oh! Before I go, I found a new thing hidden in the analytics that Inkshares gives us: It’s a heat map showing all of Ghosts of War’s readers. This really is a global book now, thanks to all of you.