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Hi everyone! I have things to tell you about!



First, Kris Calvin’s One Murder More is currently 99cents for Kindle. This was the first Inkshares book I read and I enjoyed it! I love murder mysteries, and I bet some of you do, too.

Amazon allows ebooks to be gifted via the wonders of the internet... so the first FIVE of my readers who like this update will receive the ebook of One Murder More as a gift! (Just readers who have purchased my book, not followers; this is a thank-you gift! And if you don’t have a Kindle, apparently Amazon has a free app so you can read it on your computer. I’ve never tried it, though.)

We all want to relax and chow down on a political thriller while we lounge on the beach (or something), right?!



Also, there’s a new syndicate in town, and it’s a book club!

For those who don’t know, syndicates are a sort of book-of-the-month thing where you pledge $10 (ebook) or $20 (print) to purchase a book agreed upon by the syndicate each month. If the price is different from the pledge, you are refunded the difference.

Elan Samuel’s Inkshares Book Club Syndicate will select and read a currently available Inkshares book every other month and discuss it together! Syndicates have mainly aimed to support currently funding books to help them get published, so one that selects available books is a new angle to take. Since it has to be monthly at this point, the syndicate will support funding books on the off months.

Consider checking it out!

FINALLY, a She Is the End update:

I have untangled the disaster that was Episode VIII, and Alex is currently doing developmental edits on Episode VII. I solved a problem in the final climax that was leaving the ending too weak, and in general we’re tightening things up, cutting like mad, and I AM SO. EXCITED. TO SEND THIS BOOK TO BETA READERS SOON.

And when I do, I will be taking a little break from writing. It will be... Art Time. I’m going to be sketching out the illustrations for my
book!!!

Until next time, my space-faring friends...

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    Major Congrats Quincy! I’ll race you to 1,000! We have been running neck and neck in sales from the beginning, but I think I’m about to eat your dust after the Chronicle coup! Well done sir!
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      Happy Friday, backers!

      Here is a link to the segment of last night’s Chronicle episode featuring #upMdownC. I have noticed an enormous increase in traffic to my site since the spot ran (see below), and copies sold out almost at once on Amazon. That’s the power of the boob tube for you.

      If you notice toward the end of the segment, they show an overlay of someone browsing the reviews you left for the book on Goodreads. This is precisely where all of that advance work comes into play, so once again, THANK YOU! Hopefully, these reviews will convince other readers to give the novel a chance. If you haven’t left a review on Amazon or Goodreads yet, please consider doing so? I had 50 on Amazon a week ago, which means more exposure via search on their site (or so I’ve heard), but they mysteriously took one down. Who will rescue Daniel, Thomas and Bella from sub-50 review hell?

      Upcoming: an excerpt from my current novel-in-progress on The Anthill, a writers colony in Beijing; a guest post about the crowdfunding process on Asian Books Blog, a blog about, who would have guessed, Asian books; and a review on The Nanfang, a popular expat blog about China.

      Thank you for your support. The book literally (and I hate that word) could not have gotten here without you.

      Quincy

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        Hello everyone,

        The Chronicle episode mentioned in my last update featuring Up to the Mountains and Down to the Countryside will run this Thursday, June 16th, at 7:30pm EST. Market Share reported that Chronicle beat Jeopardy! in the ratings last month among adults 25-54, so this is surely the most exciting piece of publicity yet. If you can, tune in (or set your DVRs) to see how far you’ve brought this book. And don’t forget to tell anyone else who might be interested! I will make sure to post a link to the segment once it becomes available for those of you who don’t live in New England. Xie xie!


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