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

Hello and hope you are all having a great weekend!

Friday I posted about having 98 pre-orders and later that day we hit the big 100! We are currently at 42% of our light-publishing goal and 14% of full-publishing.

I’m thrilled to be past the 100 mark and want to once again, and at the risk of sounding like a broken record, thank you all for your support and for pre-ordering!

The mugs were all drawn and the winners will be e-mailed shortly!

We’re still a long way to go from hitting all of our goals, please keep sharing, recommending and spreading the word any and every way you can. You’ve been an amazing help and let’s keep this going! 

Enjoy your Sunday!

James

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 and hope you are all having a great weekend!

Friday I posted about having 98 pre-orders and later that day we hit the big 100! We are currently at 42% of our light-publishing goal and 14% of full-publishing.

I’m thrilled to be past the 100 mark and want to once again, and at the risk of sounding like a broken record, thank you all for your support and for pre-ordering!

The mugs were all drawn and the winners will be e-mailed shortly!

We’re still a long way to go from hitting all of our goals, please keep sharing, recommending and spreading the word any and every way you can. You’ve been an amazing help and let’s keep this going! 

Enjoy your Sunday!

James