Sometimes you see an injustice and decide to help. Along the way you discover that the ones you think you’re helping, the hopeless and lost ones, are giving you your life. This is about women, some with AIDS, transforming one another.
Is our universe real?
"This the classic Cartesian question. It essentially asks, how do we know that what we see around us is the real deal, and not some grand illusion perpetuated by an unseen force (who René Descartes referred to as the hypothesized ‘evil demon')? More recently, the question has been reframed as the "brain in a vat" problem, or the Simulation Argument. And it could very well be that we're the products of an elaborate simulation. A deeper question to ask, therefore, is whether the civilization running the simulation is also in a simulation — a kind of supercomputer regression (or simulationception). Moreover, we may not be who we think we are. Assuming that the people running the simulation are also taking part in it, our true identities may be temporarily suppressed, to heighten the realness of the experience. This philosophical conundrum also forces us to re-evaluate what we mean by "real." Modal realists argue that if the universe around us seems rational (as opposed to it being dreamy, incoherent, or lawless), then we have no choice but to declare it as being real and genuine. Or maybe, as Cipher said after eating a piece of "simulated" steak in The Matrix, "Ignorance is bliss."
-http://io9.gizmodo.com/
I'll be the first to admit that I haven't worked hard enough to build interest and pre-orders in this book.
I get easily distracted and demoralised. Nobody is a more damning critic of me than I am myself. I've concentrated more on promoting my other books already published on Amazon Kindle, and I'm going to take a moment to mention them.
Time Tunnel to Londinium, Londinium Revisited, and Time Tunnel at the Seaside, are all on Amazon now for 99c/99p each and this month I am giving half my profit to my local RNLI
OK, that's likely to be a few quid but it's a gesture. If I ever become a best selling author I will give them a lot more.
Now, back to this project the book is now called "Children of the Wise Oak" because the other title was rubbish and already in use by at least one published novel.
I'd really appreciate anyone who can give the project a boost. Share it on social media, recommend it, review it 23 of 25 chapters are already on here in full.
I notice at least one author has offered all her profits from publication to charity. To be honest, I would consider doing that if I thought it would get me published, this is the first of a series of nine books that I have planned out with a timeline spanning over a century.
Win or lose, I believe in this book more than I have believed in anything I've done, and will keep banging away until I get it right.
All the best to y'all for 2016
Finished revision through to the epilogue! Feels great to see the story take on it's true character. Now it's coffee time and then back to more writing.
What did someone tell you that writers actually get breaks....
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99 copies of DHM on the wall, 99 copies of DHM! Share the book, pass it around, 100 copies of DHM on the wall!
Sorry, I'm a little loopy right now having only gotten an hour of sleep last night (Yay insomnia).
Despite my best efforts, I am starting to see the end of the contest and really understanding the likelihood of me ending up not anywhere near the top three. I was hoping for 2nd, eager for 4th, but at this point even the numbers between 7th and 5th are pretty insurmountable. And I think I am coming to peace with that.
I am going to make a few more pleas with friends for orders, and this one is to those who are following DHM but haven't backed it yet. There are 125 followers for DHM but 86 backers. If each of you 39 people backed the book today, we would be back in the race, at least the race for 4th place. My son is sitting at my shoulder reading this, saying "I want to be in the race." Yeah, me too, kid. Me too.
So if you have been waiting to order DHM, now is the time. Please preorder the book today!
Incentive wise, we are four people away from our next raffle, 1 order away from 100 books ordered today, and six orders away from sixth place.
Psst. Isn't that pic of Cri-Lux awesome? I bet you'd love to know who she is! How about another incentive. If we get to 125 backers, then I'll release chapter 2, and you'll meet not only Cri-Lux but also Daxas Piers, our street wise mech racer. Now I have to go race with my toddler. He says "we have to get all the way to the finish line." Wise words.
