Hello Ladies & Gents,

I know I don’t update like I should. It’s a character flaw I’m working on. I spend all my royalty money on therapy. I’ll get better

Here’s the news today! I just got final interior layout files from the absolutely awesomest people ever at Girl Friday Productions and the book looks great. Sexy even. Now all I have to do is send my final cover art over to Inkshares and this sh*t is on like Donkey Kong.

That will be happening today. As soon as I finish writing this update actually. So to celebrate I want to share something I found a couple days ago that I had forgotten existed. This is a sketch I drew almost 15 years ago while the idea for this book was floating around in my head.

I know it might not make a lot of sense since you guys haven’t read the book yet but I thought you might enjoy a little bit of what went on in my brain while I was thinking about this story.

Thank you all so much for following, for preordering, for supporting this book that I really hope brings you some joy this summer.

Thank you!   - Landon

5 days left, 87 pre-orders until Quill, and a raffle!

Tough odds, but I will continue to plug away. In the meantime, check to see if you’ve won:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SybeSKwKPPY

Also, in other news, I’m looking to line up some help with developmental editing for this book, regardless of the campaign’s outcome. This help will come from a familiar face in the Inkshares community, but first I need a completed manuscript to hand over. I am looking forward to it!

As always, thanks for your support, and tell your friends about my book if you haven’t already. I happen to think they’d like it. :)

-Mike

Woot! Woot! We just hit 240 orders!  Thank you all for pushing it this far.  Why don’t we close the funding to Quill today...we only need 10 more orders to reach Quill and then I can focus on the editing and stop pestering you guys :)  You’ll gain more chances in the raffle and get the bonus script gift, so it’s all good.  

As an added bonus I’ll be sending another chapter to the final 10 pre-orderers...so let’s do this today and make it Quill sunday!  

Thank you in particular to both of the syndicates that have been singing my praises.  The Idiosyncraticate Syndicate  and The Thriller Night syndicate  why not join up with either or both of these fine establishments, they’re a great pair of organisations to have behind you if you want to get published.  Okay, back to editing and see you on the other side of the Quill border soon!  Hit HERE to pre-order LOUISIANA BLOOD.

Hello Champions,

Just a quick note to let you know I’m still writing! I usually write with a soundtrack playing in the background so I thought I’d share what Champions of the Third Planet sounds like to me.

First, this track from Two Steps From Hell, which was used in the Star Trek trailer a few years back. I picture a lot of the moments from the beginning of the story here, with the kids discovering the Orb. Milo says, "I found something in the woods" around the :38 mark and the Orb takes off around 1:02: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxkJvYGP2qE

This track is from one of my favorite bands, the Dandy Warhols. It seems to get used a lot in movies and trailers. It’s pretty high energy and a lot of the very original images for Champions came to me with this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuFtfhOipNQ

Whenever I’m thinking about the kids on the Dead Planet in their quieter, melancholy moments -- hanging around, missing home -- I think of this part of John William’s score from Star Wars, where Luke is looking up at the binary suns: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Gt8D8SXD_8

This track from Mad Max: Fury Road is something I’ve been using for a huge set piece late in the book that I can’t tell you about yet, but I love the furious intensity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Gt8D8SXD_8

I don’t know if any of this music makes sense to you in terms of the book, but it’s all awesome and it all speaks to me for this story, which I guess is what counts.

Back to work!

--Chris