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    Thomas J. Arnold liked a comment in the forum thread, Deus Hex Machina
    No sorries, just let me clean up this random moisture that's accumulate in my eyes somehow...

    Honestly I was just talking with my husband about how I think I've stalled on all the possible channels for funding on this project.  I've reached out to the last 20 prospects on my list and will keep pinging until I get a definitive answer, but all we can come up with is posting fliers in libraries, but that's more of a passive shot in the dark.  I was just saying to him this might be my funding limit -- 43 copies.  I mean that's more than Shadow of the Owl got, so that's a success in itself.

    I tried to leverage a massive facebook group I'm in called Mamageeks, but they must have seen through my proxy self-promotion through a friend because there was no response, like at all to the post.  These wre the people that bout like 400 copies of SotO the first weekend, but that might have been because they were free and I was complaining about how my mother wouldn't read the book so they were jumping to my defense.

    I did post on reddit, but self-promotion has never been successful in my book (or for my book even): https://www.reddit.com/r/writing/comments/3vqqam/check_in_selfpromotion_and_off_topic_discussion/cxzwe0s

    I thought of using a Twitch stream -- I did this during my last day of nanowrimo and although the quality of the writing suffered a bit since I had an audience, it was kinda fun to stream and write at the same time.

    But ultimately all these avenues are passive.  The person who I wish I could emulate in terms of preorder strategies is @Jamison Stone .  He managed to reach out into the community and pull hundreds of preorders in just days.  It's a real shame that this contest ends mid January, because I have a table at Chattacon where I could have sold preorders, but that's the last week in January.  

    @A.C. Weston Your page keeps coming up because Art really wants to collaborate on the graphic novel with you. He asks me like daily about this hehe that's how excited he is about the idea.  

    Mylanta, I'm just so darn HONORED that you all think this much of the book! 
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      Thomas J. Arnold liked a comment in the forum thread, She Is The End
      (I ended up deleting my joke answer and writing a real one. Sorry, @JF Dubeau!)

      Writing is one of the ways I interpret life. I need it to help me figure out how to exist in a world filled with horrible things and still feel hope. I had your garden-variety shitty childhood, and stories were always an escape - both reading and writing them helped me make it to adulthood.

      I'm not interested in convincing comfortable people how "dark and gritty" life can really be. Those kinds of stories are fine for whoever wants to read and write them, but a lot of us already know. We need to know whether or not the darkness and grit are worth it.

      Stories help me survive, and I like to think maybe someday something I write could help someone else survive, too.

      As for this book, I like adventure and angst and love and heroics, and I don't just want to consume these kinds of stories; I want to create them.

      In the most general sense, I'm working out my understanding of how justice and mercy might exist in tension in a world where everyone is flawed, and everyone wants forgiveness. My faith as a Christian informs my exploration of justice and mercy, but I'm not writing an allegory or trying to indoctrinate anyone. (Unless you count writing multiple complex, realistic women as feminist indoctrination, in which case... yeah.)

      I'm interested in exploring service, humility, and self-sacrifice as the foundations of leadership.

      I'm interested in exploring power and injustice, recovery from trauma, and the meaning of beauty.

      I'm interested in exploring community versus the individual, identity formation, and the definition of family.

      Also, I want to make spaceships explode!
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        I was inspired by science. And an angel. A science-angel. With robots.
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          The REAL question is: where is my Captain Marvel movie, damn it? 
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            Thomas J. Arnold liked a comment in the forum thread, Captain America
            Obviously, I am team Captain America for CA: Civil War. This shouldn't even be an argument... I mean, I get that Tony is spooked after all he's been through, but is the US government really, in his experience, the one to judge about a lack of accountability?? Seriously? Who watches the Watchmen??? Maybe the US military needs some oversight from some superheroes, HUH?

            I know, the story is specifically about Bucky Barnes - accused of a crime he didn't commit, I suspect. Well, he DIDN'T DO IT FIRST OF ALL. Second of all, if you're so worried about the superheroes, let the superheroes police themselves! The Avengers are, in essence, a judicial council anyway. Maybe they need a few regular-joe members, so they can have an ombudsman or livestream their discussions or whatever. The point is, PROTECT BUCKY BARNES AT ALL COSTS.

            #VICTIMNOTAVILLAIN
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