James Rasile liked an update for LOUISIANA BLOOD - A Chandler Travis and Duke  Lanoix mystery

Hello all of my 220 slice and dicers...just a brief update. 

I’m at 234 pre-orders...so I only have a few days to scoop up the last 16 pre-orders to get over the Quill line.  So far I have nearly 100 of you entered into the $100 raffle...no that doesn’t mean one lucky winner will take home a $1.  One lucky winner will take home $100.  

Now simple maths dictates that if you pre-ordered more than one you will have double or more  chances of being picked.  But whatever you choose to throw your $10s at, I’d like to thank all of you for supporting me during the last three months. 

I’d especially like to give a big shout out to some of the many generous authors that have helped guide me through the treacherous waters of  crowd funding.  

Peter Ryan, the author of SYNC CITY, a great thriller and worth checking out.  Joni Dee, author of AND THE WOLF SHALL DWELL, a wonderful thriller, also Billy O’ Keefe author of  THESE ARE MY FRIENDS ON POLITICS a wickedly funny children’s book.  Christopher Huang’s MURDER AT THE VETERAN’S CLUB a lovely period detective novel and Kelsey Rae’s BEYOND THE CODE, an adventure in the fantasy genre ...

And last but not least the two great syndicates that helped raise my profile by picking me as their book of the month...THE IDIOSYNCRATICATE SYNDICATE  and the THRILLER NIGHT SYNDICATE check them out.  When I’m fully funded I will post a more effusive list of the wonderful people that have also helped me along the way.

Anyway, enough hyperbole...if you have some credits, or are feeling generous, why not throw a few dollars at the Louisiana Blood stagecoach and spur those horses over the Quill border.  Saddle up HERE!  

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    James Rasile liked an update for A God in the Shed

    Hello friend!

    It’s with dark joy in my heart and the lingering effects of celebratory scotch that I come to you this day.

    First, I have an announcement! The winner of the ’I Want to Kill You’ raffle has been decided. He’s accepting the ’honour’ of having his likeness murdered in A God in the Shed and while I can reveal his identity, we have yet to discuss the manner of his demise. Congratulations to Brad Ludwig! I can’t think of a better dude to murder... in a book. Fiction. I’m not really killing Brad.

    In more serious business, I want to ask for your help again. Don’t worry, your wallet and credits are safe this time, however...


    DragonCon is starting its own awards. I won’t bury the lead; I want to see my first book; The Life Engineered nominated. I mean, I’ll be happy if any Inkshares book gets a nomination but obviously I’d be deliriously happy if The Life Engineered got a nod in there. So this will fusion reaction powering my communications with you for the next little while: Let’s get Inkshares a Dragon Award. Have a look at the nomination page and please consider putting in The Life Engineered for the Science Fiction category. While you’re there, here are some suggestions for other categories if you feel like supporting the Inkshares platform:  

    • Fantasy: Asteroid Made of Dragons 
    • Horror: An Unattractive Vampire 
    Click here for the nomination page.

    Last but not last, I have yet another favour to ask, but this time it’s for my friend A.C. Baldwin. She’s is nearing the end of her funding campaign and she is so very close to her goal of 250 pre-orders. I know I’ve been asking a lot from you guys lately, but if you have a few credits rolling around or you’re just curious about her book, check out A.C. Baldwin’s The Traveller’s Cup. It’s a great book and A.C. is a tremendously promising author and a tireless artist. She deservers this.

    Thanks friends. Inkshares has already sent me documents to fill out so we can prepare the first production meeting for A God in the Shed. The wheels start rolling. The book is being made.

    JF
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      James Rasile liked an update for The Life Engineered

       Whoa! My fellow thinking beings, what a ride the last few weeks have been. 

      In case you haven’t heard, my second book, A God in the Shed, on Inkshares has funded successfully and will be seeing publication in a few months. It’s pretty exciting stuff but unfortunately I have no time to dwell on it. What else is taking up my thoughts?

      DragonCon is starting its own awards. I won’t bury the lead; I want to see The Life Engineered nominated. I mean, I’ll be happy if any Inkshares book gets a nomination but obviously I’d be deliriously happy if The Life Engineered got a nod in there. So this will fusion reaction powering my communications with you for the next little while: Let’s get Inkshares a Dragon Award. Have a look at the nomination page and please consider putting in The Life Engineered for the Science Fiction category. While you’re there, here are some suggestions for other categories if you feel like supporting the Inkshares platform:

      • Fantasy: Asteroid Made of Dragons
      • Horror: An Unattractive Vampire

      Click here for the nomination page.

      Next up: one of my friends is nearing the end of her funding campaign and she is so very close to her goal of 250 pre-orders. I know I’ve been asking a lot from you guys lately, but if you have a few credits rolling around or you’re just curious about her book, check out A.C. Baldwin’s The Traveller’s Cup. It’s a great book and A.C. is a tremendously promising author and a tireless artist. She deservers this.

      Finally, while I’m still asking for favours, currently The Life Engineered is sitting at 80 reviews on Amazon.com. That’s awesome and I love to read the comments and critiques of readers. However, if I can get to 100 reviews, magical things start happening on Amazon. If you’ve read The Life Engineered and enjoyed it, consider leaving a review on Amazon. It helps me more than you can imagine and I’d love you forever.

      Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go prep the funding campaign for Arch-Android.

      JF

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        James Rasile liked an update for The Knightmares

        Hey gang...

        So I’ve hit twelve pre-orders. Twelve!? We can do better than that. Just remember, if I don’t hit 250 none of us see this book in print (or on our fancy back-lit screens). 

        Please help spread the word, and please, if you haven’t purchased, grab a copy. 

        If we hit 250, I’ll make sure everyone gets a super-awesome poster copy of the cover art my super-awesome friend is putting together (she illustrates comic book covers for a living). Both things combined create a super-awesome(squared) deal, right?

        Are we cool now? Did sweetening the deal lubricate your appetite for some Knightmares fun? 

        Let’s go get ’em, team! 
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          James Rasile liked an update for Seeking the Elephant

          Some exciting mid-week news!

          First, we’ll be introducing a brand new cover for Seeking the Elephant, this coming week, 4\28 (or a little soon!) Keep your eyes open for this exciting change!

          Second, we’d like to announce -- Seeking the Elephant Pre-Order Raffle!

          We’re almost 1\3 of the way to our Quills Goal of 250 copies! To celebrate, we want to announce a raffle -- We’re giving away a $50 Amazon gift card! You can use this card to buy anything you’d like, as a gift from the team behind Seeking the Elephant! How can you qualify? Purchase or recommend Seeking the Elephant in the next 10 days! Between NOW and 4\28, 12:00 PM PST, all orders & recommendations enter you into a drawing for this $50 gift card!

          Here’s ticket quantities:

          Recommendation: 1 ticket
          E-Reader Order: 5 tickets
          Reader Order: 10 tickets
          Super Reader Order: 50 tickets


          Help push Seeking the Elephant into 100 pre-orders before our 60-day mark and you could win some instant gratification!



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            James Rasile liked an update for Asteroid Made of Dragons

            Asteroid Made of Various Information

            Hello everyone! This space has been a little quiet since launch - but I wanted to update you on some cool things that are happening, new reviews, wheedle some more help out of you, and talk a little about the future.

            • AMOD on Kirkus.com! - The Lighter Side of Science Fiction and Fantasy . Top of the list, son - and it has nothing to do with the alphabet, I’m sure.
            • New review on The Warbler. - "Asteroid Made of Dragons is a self-aware, funny, and action-packed novel that is basically a Dungeons and Dragons adventure in delicious prose. It is absurd and delightful, with a great cast of characters, fun set pieces, and suffused with a larger-than-fantasy-life essence that punctuates every page of the book."
            • My Publisher’s Weekly review, because I’ll never be tired of linking it.
            • Speaking of reviews - I still NEED YOURS on Amazon and Goodreads.
            • Crazy milestone - as of about a week ago, we have sold more books than were pre-ordered, and passed what was the actual pre-order goal without the contest. Probably no one was paying attention to this but me, but I’m super relieved so Inkshares won’t feel like it got cheated.
            • I want to win an award and feel like a fancy person. You can help me do that by nominating my for the first annual Dragon Award at Dragon*Con. YES IT IS A LITTLE ON THE NOSE, I DON’T CARE. Further details here. Being nominated alone would be VITAL exposure for the book, so I’d really appreciate you guys taking a moment if you don’t mind.

            And now, the future? I’m bad about planning my life only so far in advance - with big horizon moments, after which there is nothing. The launch of this book was most definitely a cliff, and now I’m stumbling forward a little aimlessly. There should be more exciting things coming up about AMOD and I’ll tell you all about them as they arise, but the life cycle of a book is long. I can’t keep hovering over my various social media channels waiting for news or refreshing Goodreads and Amazon for the umpteenth time to see if a new review has popped up indefinitely. I’m going to a convention in May, that’ll be fun? I’m writing something new and that’s exciting?

            Are we breaking up? Is this the end? You have what you wanted out of me, now it’s just awkward conversations and remembering the good times.

            As many times as I can, I want to thank you all again. Your support has brought me to a new level, a new leg of this weird-ass writing journey. Expect much less frequent updates here - (unless something CRAZY AWESOME happens) - and come follow me on twitter @gderekadams or on my own blog spell-sword.com.




             

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