Wow, guys! Wow, wow, wow. 

Would you believe we went up 10 pre-orders in a day? I knew you could make it happen. So as promised, by tomorrow you’ll have a brand new sample chapter! 

The level of encouragement I’m seeing from you all is astounding. It reminds me why I started this book in the first place: to reach people like you with a wacky idea for a space opera. 

Now for the important news...

This is officially the last week of the Nerdist Space Opera Contest! Next Tuesday the contest will close, and that means that whichever authors have books in the top three will be set up with a publication deal. 

If we aren’t there it means we’ll have to work a lot harder in the future to make sure this book sees the light of day. I don’t know about you guys, but I’d rather finish this now so I can make sure the book goes to market in this collection.

Again, this is referral week! I’ll reiterate what that means for the newcomers and folks who don’t read the bottoms of every email:

If you refer three people to pre-order this week you’ll get: 

•  A signed first-edition draft version of the book complete with random scribbles of frustration
  
  
• A collection of sketches of characters and setting, 10 in total, as a bound art-book
  
  
• A pack of 10 Traveller’s Cup bookmarks

• A custom Traveller’s Cup mug so you can enjoy your hot caffeinated beverage of choice with your new book

All of these items will be delivered physically to you after the release date, complete with a spacey thank you note. If you refer by word of mouth, that counts too. Just send me an email or message telling me how you know the person. 

So with that out of the way, I again want to say a space-sized thank you to you. You belong in this crew because of your dedication to our mission: to make more space books and send them to the worlds beyond. 

Your Overworked But Determined Space Captain Whose Blood is Now Caffeine,
-AC

Two quick notes.

1. We have officially moved to the Draft Stage and need to start building a community of Readers and potential Backers! (previously, this group has been almost exclusively made up of Inkshares authors interested in submitting an entry for possible inclusion in the anthology)

2. We have a temporary cover! (check it out)

Exciting news!  I will be giving the next 100 people who pre-order my novel a FERRARI!  Er, well, in a literal sense that is...I am not going down the T-shirt and signed mug route.  But the Ferrari version of a novel is a film...so I’ll be giving a copy of my multi award winning screenplay LOUISIANA BLOOD to the next 100 pre-orders.  I’m well over 25% of my initial funding aim and I’m after more fuel in the tank. Thank you to all those trusty followers who have already committed and welcome to any new ones. 

 https://www.inkshares.com/books/louisiana-blood-a-chandler-travis-and-duke-lanoix-mystery?referral_code=2c27906f

START YOUR ENGINES!

Greetings Jackolytes,

Napoleon Bonaparte said an army marches on its stomach. Jack Trevayne says Sync City marches on because of its readers. Today Sync City hit 100 readers - thank you all so much.

Sync City is about halfway there in terms of pre-orders and about halfway there in terms of funding days remaining. Here’s another interesting Napoleon Bonaparte fact - as a result of the Napoleonic Wars, canning was invented. Here’s another interesting Jack Trevayne fact - Jack likes beer. At the moment Jack’s can is half full. He’s not a half-full kind of guy. Buy Jack a beer - get friends and family on board and have them pre-order Sync City. Thank you again.

Cheers,

Peter

Soon.  

Very soon now.  

Goodnight.