First off, congratulations to the winners of the latest Sword and Laser contest:  Joseph Asphahani (The Animal in Man);  Matthew Isaac Sobin (The Last Machine in the Solar System);  and Craig Munro (The Bones of the Past).  In addition to what I've read of each book being well written, intriguing, and most definitely deserving of this honor, from my interactions with each of them they all seem to be wonderful people as well.  If you haven't already checked out their books, then do yourself a favor and go do so now.  While you're at it also check out the remainder of the top 10, especially three of my favorites:  Adam Greven and Matt Deller’s The Knight Proper;   Byron Gillian’s The Children of the Forest;   and  Amanda Orneck’s Deus Hex Machina.

Now on to the current state of my campaign.  We're still moving ahead and had a brief uptick in the normal sales which I suspect was mainly due to the efforts of a number of fellow Inkshares authors, but that has since slowed considerably.  We're currently at 85 copies ordered, and with only 5 days left in the campaign we are in need of quite a large surge in order to get the minimum 250 orders to get into Quill.  With such a short time left, I'm hoping that more of you who have followed but not order will go ahead and place an order.  I'll continue work on my end to draw in more readers beyond the exiting 283 followers, but with such a short time left it will be quite difficult to draw in enough new people to make up for those who haven't ordered.

Regardless, as I've said before many ways I will not give up on hitting the goal until this campaign is over, and even if it ends in failure I won't give up on getting this book published though I may have to reassess just how I go about that.    I hope I can reach the goal through Inkshares because I truly believe that this is a publishing model which can lead to a better environment for both readers and writers, but as I'd noted in my previous update with my lack of network and promotional abilities/financing it may turn out that this technique of crowd-sourcing is not one I'm as capable of as I need to be to succeed at Inkshares.  Wherever my path takes me and this series of tales about a strange dwarf and his increasingly strange family, I hope you won't give up on it or me either.

As for new material, unfortunately we haven't hit the next thresholds(at least 90 preorders and/or 290 followers), so I won't be posting anything new up yet.  I'll post up new sections on the day thresholds are hit from now until the campaign ends.  There's 7 sections of Chapter 6, and section 4 was the last uploaded .  Section 5 will of course be next, with sections 6 & 7 being posted simultaneoulsy at the next threshold after that.  Also, section 1 of Exile, Hunted's 2nd chapter will be posted once we hit 100 preorders for Exile, Magus.  Keep the orders coming in so I can continue to share these stories with you and we can eventually get the full book into your hands.

Thank you all for your time and support.  Keep reading, enjoying, and have a good remainder of your weekend.