I am honored to announce that Deus Hex Machina was chosen as the February book for the Break the Bechdel syndicate.  I am humbled that a group of esteemed Inkshares readers identified with Isidore RAM and her story.  As a small thank you, I will post the complete chapter two today, which introduces our inciting incident as well as Daxas Piers. Mechs ahoy friends!

This means that we blew past our 150 order raffle and are only 1 order away from the 160 raffle!  Amazing!!! I will do the raffle pull later on today, since I really need to get that last scene written before I can post the chapter.  It’s a biggie.  

Dear friends,

I’m glad and grateful to have you all here, and so: a present. "The Adventure of the Oxford Comma" is a short mystery, complete, starring our friend Eric Peterkin; published on Wattpad and free for your reading pleasure. I hope everyone enjoys it as a prelude to the full-length feature that is "Murder at the Veterans’ Club".

Cheers!

I would like to thank all of you for following my project, it means so much to me. I am planning on releasing more of my poems here in the near future, and I hope that all of you will enjoy them. Thank you for your support and interest in this project, I fully appreciate it! It purely excites me every time I see my follower count increase, and I am thankful for every one of you.  

I am currently projecting that I will have an estimate of around 50 poems for this collection, and I currently have completed 21 of these poems. I am continuously getting more and more excited as that number increases, and I can not wait until the complete collection is finished and ready to be read by others as a whole. I welcome any and all support any of you choose to give, whether it be pre-ordering, sharing my project in any way, or simply following it and taking an interest. It gives me great delight to see anyone at all taking an interest in my work, I cannot thank you guys enough. 

Thanks again for your support!

Greetings, everyone!

I hope you’re enjoying a lazy Sunday, or getting the most out of this love-holiday, to close off a great week. My week has been a roller-coaster ride full of marketing and networking, trying to make sure that The Traveller’s Cup continues on its path toward publication. 

First, there’s a new blurb up on the page. I ran this by a group of my writing friends and they agree it packs a better punch, so I hope you enjoy it too. And also that it spurs you to send the link to all your friends. 

Second, you guys are amazing. Thanks to you we’ve managed to stay fairly consistently in the top 10. Maintaining this means more exposure for the book, and inspires me to make sure it’s a story worthy of your pledges. For proof of the exposure, check out the article Nerdist did about the campaign, where you can get some details on the inspiration that went into The Traveller’s Cup. 

Lastly, despite all of this great news, we have a long way to go still. If we all share with our friends and communities enough to get one more order each, we could reach first place. Please help me make this happen. 

With all the warm Valentine fuzzies you could ask for and then some,

-AC

Greetings wonderful people. 

The newly edited Chapter 3 is up and running. Please take a look and let me know what you think. I always appreciate feedback and I hope you like it. 

We are around the half way point of this campaign and I can’t say enough to thank everyone for the continuing support that I’ve seen from this community. But like everyone with a project on Inkshares I am holding on to hope of making it to Quill. So please please please please put in a pre-order for Beyond the Code if you like what I put my heart and time into. Not only will you get a first edition of my book you’ll also get entered into a raffle for a cozy blanket with Beyond the Codes cover art embroidered on it and you get plenty of good karma from helping a friend’s dream come true. We only have 20 more orders till our next raffle.  

So if you are following Beyond the Code and you like what your reading please pre-order and help me reach Quill. You will take your rightful place as one of my favourite people. 

Thank you so much for your time and Happy Valentines Day.