Readers, this is it!!! Last chance to update your mailing address before your copy ends up at your old address. Please login and confirm ASAP. Thank you for your patience, and we can’t wait to hear your feedback on our story!
Greetings, adventurers.
I come to you today with perhaps the most exciting promise of treasure of all: an update.
Much like the feeling one has when dropping their child off at a new babysitter for the first time, I write to you with hope and apprehension today. Because Mushroom and Anchovy’s most recent manuscript has been sent off to Inkshares to undergo copyediting.
I’m not sure what this expressly means for our timeline, but the facts we have right now are thus:
1. Mushroom and Anchovy is currently sent in for copyediting.
2. This has never happened before.
We can, by means of logic and reason, now deduce thusly: the ball is finally rolling to get these books into your hands.
It’s been a long time coming, and I’m so excited to finally be able to share this wacky tale with you all!
I’ll contact you again when I have more news. But, for now, please know that the book is in progress. My biggest wish now is for it to be worthy of such a wait. Thank you so much for your patience and understanding!
In the meantime, I’m going to be looking into getting us a new artist and cover!
May your travels be fraught with wonder and just enough peril to keep them interesting,
K. M. Cooper
Dear Readers:
We know we have said it before, but we really are in the home stretch. Our best current guess is that A Friend for Otter will ship by late summer or early autumn. Although we have badly misjudged this timeline before, those earlier stages blindsided us with the pandemic and then the demands on our time and effort of copyediting after we (incorrectly) thought that the process was now primarily in Inkshares’ hands. Copyediting is over, and the process really is, this time, out of our hands. So although we can’t promise, we are crossing our fingers that you’ll be reading your own copies of A Friend for Otter well in advance of the holidays. We are incredibly grateful to you all for your patience and loyalty.
The stage after copyediting was when the typesetter poured the manuscript. We’ve reviewed it and provided very minor feedback. Inkshares will now finalize the manuscript and proofread it. Proofreading should begin in the next few weeks, at which point Inkshares expects to provide us with a firm release date.
In anticipation of the release date, please double check your mailing address with Inkshares, especially if you have moved since ordering your copy of A Friend for Otter (which was several years ago now for the vast majority of you).
Again, we can’t thank you enough for standing by us through the years of this project. It meant so much to us to have your support through not only time, but also through the hardship COVID brought. And we hope that as we near the last stages of publishing, your wait will soon be over and (we hope you’ll agree) well worth it!.
Your devoted authors,
Jesse and Ván (Sylvia) Medlong
I didn’t think I’d ever sign back into this account, but I’ve had several people message me today on how to get a refund from Inkshares. Not sure what prompted the sudden question, but I figured if people are asking ME, they’ve been waiting for a looooooong time, so I decided to just make a blanket PSA and sign back out of this account forever.
If you’re still waiting on a book you pre-ordered and haven’t heard anything for a while, I would suggest trying to contact the author of the book for a timeframe. In a perfect world they should be updating you on the status of the novel you invested in, but sometimes things fall through the cracks.
If you don’t know how to contact the author, just want your money back, or have lost interest in the last few years, you should be able to send an e-mail to hello@inkshares.com asking for a refund.
Hope it helps. Good luck.
((Oh, and if you’re still interested in the Faoii Chronicles the entire series is now available and has won several awards. Don’t buy them through Inkshares, though.))
Three (or Four, depending on how one counts) Cool Things to share today, and a lot of excitement!
First, a free book! JMS Books is doing a free ebook per day Advent Calendar this month, and mine’s today – and it’s Seaworthy (Character Bleed book 1)!
Actors filming a Napoleonic Wars drama & falling in love! Terrible bread puns! A Good Sex Awards runner-up for Sexiest Consent! Come grab it now!
Next, I’m over on Ofelia Grand’s blog today, chatting about my new short story release! “December with Peppermint” is a short fluffy holiday follow-up to “October by Candlelight,” and it’s all about handmade decorations, terrible puns about mint, and definitely no one making a holiday-themed sex tape, no matter what Finn’s agent suggests! Come read about it – and the Colby from Character Bleed cameo! – over here at Ofelia’s!
“December with Peppermint” is a 5k short, a holiday follow-up for Finn and Wes from “October by Candlelight,” my autumn-themed moving-in-together story—here, they’re getting ready for their first Christmas in their home together! Which comes with families wanting to visit, and Finn wanting to decorate everything in sight, and Wes needing to grade papers…and, on top of that, Finn’s agent worrying that he’s not visible enough, not memorable enough, not someone casting directors think of, these days…in need of something drastic, perhaps, to get people talking. (The sex tape suggestion isn’t entirely serious. Though…if Finn and Finn’s boyfriend might be willing to go along with it…) (Wes: “Not in this or any other universe, as much as I love you.”)
And look at the adorable cover! You can get it at Amazon here, or at JMS Books here, or all the places you like to buy books!
And…finally…the big news!
So… Frost & Raine, my little paranormal m/m romance novella about a Cupid & his Frost spirit, just won the 2020-2021 Rainbow Award for Bisexual Fantasy & Paranormal Romance – and was a Runner-Up in overall Best Bisexual Book!
The other two I submitted – Seaworthy (Character Bleed book one) & Cadence and the Pearl – also received Honorable Mentions! And I pretty much haven’t stopped smiling about it since yesterday! So many fabulous authors – it’s such an honor, and such a good cause, with over $10k raised for various charities! And now I suppose I should properly get back to work on the Frost & Raine spin-off, which is Luke’s story, and his own magical happy ending…