Hello Machiners! And a happy Saturday to all of you!

So have you seen it yet?? 

You must have. After all it’s been up on the Inkshares homepage for The Last Machine for more than a week.... And I know each of you must be checking in over at Inkshares.com almost daily as you eagerly anticipate any updates on when Jonathan, the last machine, will finally arrive on your doorstep (as a book, not a 9 foot tall robot)!

It’s going to be a bit longer, Inkshares has decided April 2017 is more conducive to a successful publication date than February. So Spring 2017 it is!! And back we all go to our thumb twiddling...

And now, without further ado, for those of you who don’t frequent Inkshares as often as you should, the final high resolution cover art!!!

Awesome, isn’t it?! Many thanks to artist Dan Stiles for this tremendous result. It’s going to absolutely POP on the bookstore shelves!

Lastly, Jonathan and Nikolai are officially back in action, together, billions of years earlier in a new short story called "The Creator and The Machine" to be published in the Nerdist contest winning video games anthology Too Many Controllers!!! I may have BURIED the LEAD here. Go check it out and grab a copy of this epic book full of work by exciting Inkshares authors!

And believe me, there are a ton of great books funding right now on Inkshares that deserve your attention; in particular there is a Geek & Sundry sponsored FANTASY contest going on right now. Lots of cool potential books to peruse! 

Have a great weekend!

Spotlight Update:
It seems like everyone and his mother has given this book a well-earned recommendation by now, but I haven’t thrown mine in yet. Considering how hard Jaye Milius has been working throughout her campaign, this book really should have hit full funding by now.

Terminus has such a simple, yet endlessly promising premise: in the future, technology has bridged the gulf between life and the afterlife. This story is set in a world where mortality itself no longer means what it once did. The entire world has been forced to make radical changes to accompany the revelation that one of the most universal and inescapable aspects of the human experience, the inevitability and finality of death, is now merely a new stage in an increasingly complex lifespan.

The premise is fascinating, the worldbuilding is brilliantly thought out and developed, and the characters manage to be highly relatable, despite living in a world so far removed from our own.

Currently, Terminus is only 24 orders away from reaching the Quill publishing goal, which it absolutely deserves. If this premise interests you, please check it out and see about supporting it!

Also, for Tantalus Depths, today is the last day of my special promotion: a free copy of this poster to anyone who orders or refers someone else who orders a physical copy of Tantalus Depths. Order by midnight, and you can still get one!