Good morning, everyone! It’s been a great day. New and great stuff all around...

Chapter 6 is up for your reading pleasure/critique!

The Diary of Mr. Butler has a new entry! 

I had the pleasure of being interviewed for another blog that includes everyone in the top ten in the Nerdist Space Opera contest! You can read that here.

On top of that, you can still read my personal interview with Elan Samuel of The Warbler literary blog here, as well as read my response in the first inshares blog regarding the contest here.

So...a lot going on!

On top of that, I need a vote, perhaps. I am teetering over on making the decision to add the Diary of Mr. Butler into the actual book. My wife suggested this, and I like it the more I think about it. Any feedback would be great! I’m considering incorporating it as either a Part 1: The Diary of Mr. Butler/Part 2: The Madness of Mr. Butler type of thing, or pushing diary entries in between chapters. I’m unsure at this point. But I really like the concept. It would add some depth to Mr. Butler as well as create something I had never created before: a story that has both first and third-person perspectives. Interesting...

If this happens, I have a few adjustments to make, but it’s all extremely exciting. 

This has been a fantastic month thus far, and I have all of you to thank for it. Your support means the world to me. I hope everyone has a great day.

And don’t forget, you can contact me at madmrbutler@gmail.com if you want to discuss anything, vote on the incorporation of the diary, let me know if there are any projects you think deserve my attention...anything. I’m here. 

Lovelovelovelovelove...

-Michael.

My wife just sent this to me. Now that I’ve finished fanning out, it occurs to me to wish with all my might that people in some far off future time might someday freak out similarly upon the discovery of some bit of MY half-baked ephemera....

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/feb/16/unseen-jrr-tolkien-poems-found-in-school-magazine

We are almost there  6 days left and we have 251 copies pre ordered.

I will be doing an official update soon, but I just realized that 55 followers still haven’t ordered Lies and Deception. Feel free to email me at : walternative809@gmail.com.  I want to know what is holding you guys to order this awesome book ;).  

send me an email tell me why if you don’t like it I can understand, if there is something else let me know and we will work something out  :)

Greetings sentiments!

Great news today, but first allow me to apologize if this post lacks the panache of my normal communiqués, I have to do this through my iPad while on the high seas.

So what’s this great news? It’s a gift to you my readers! I wrote a short story as a spoiler-free prequel to The Life Engineered! It’s published on SF Signal and you can find it here: http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2016/02/sacrifice-by-jf-dubeau-the-prequel-story-to-the-life-engineered/

(See? No hyperlink. Truly these are the dark ages.)

Do me a favor and spread this story and link far and wide. It’s a free story! How cool is that? Read it, share it, comment on it. Let’s show SF Signal we want more of this kind of content!

Thanks for your support my friends. I hope to have the opportunity to do more things like this for you in the future.

JF