You guys may have noticed it’s been a little quiet here. There’s a reason, and it’s a long one, so I’ll sum it up before I get to the good stuff.
First, all cards on the table: running a crowdfunding campaign is exhausting. Emotionally, it’s draining. You have a day where you crush it and you feel on top of the world. Then there are days, weeks, where nothing happens, and you wonder who you thought you were to even attempt something so ridiculous. We came out of the gate firing, and then I faded away. I feel like I owe you all an explanation as to why.
Here’s the deal. Inkshares is in the middle of a leadership change, and the restructuring shook things up. I wasn’t sure if Inkshares was necessarily the right way to go in publishing Blue Water. And in the last few weeks, while the campaign sat stagnant, I started looking into self publishing, and any other options I could find so I could make an informed decision about what to do next.
The campaign suffered for it.
After a bit of soul searching, and a pep talk from another amazing Inkshares author to which I owe SO much for her support, (please, check out Amanda Orneck’s book “Deus Hex Machina,” currently available to pre-order on Inkshares. Unlike Blue Water, there’s no gamble here. Her book has crossed that finish line), I have decided to attack this Inkshares thing with all I have. I need this book to be in your hands. You all have helped me get this far. I’m not changing direction at this point.
So, with that in mind, I contacted Inkshares to explain the situation, and was granted an extension.
The new deadline for us to cross the finish line, be it 750 or 250, is now November 14, 2016. That’s our new target, and wouldn’t you know it, that’s also my daughter’s third birthday.
Now we’re have 110 preorders to get, and we have 77 days left. That gives us a perfectly round number progress chart. Ten a week. 150 by next Monday, 160 by the Monday after that... if we stay at exactly that, order 250 comes in on day zero. So let’s stay above that. For safety’s sake. We’ve pulled off twenty in a day before. I’m quite optimistic about our chances.
This now has my full attention, like it did during the first four weeks when we got halfway there. We’ve got a lot of fun stuff planned on this campaign. Things I’m very excited to show you. If you guys can keep fighting for this book, keep spreading the word around, keep telling your friends to buy this novel, I promise we can get there.
More to come shortly.
Thank you all for hanging in there with me.
If you haven’t preordered Blue Water yet, click the button to purchase it now.
Here we go.
-Joseph
