Mr. Butler’s diary has been updated! Go to thediaryofmrbutler.wordpress.com to read the latest entry. He had a few sketches in his journal as well, and those will be posted soon.
For those of you who are new followers, thediaryofmrbutler.wordpress.com is where I am posting entries from Mr. Butler’s diary that he kept prior to the events chronicled in The Madness of Mr. Butler. This is supplemental material to my novel, and it is not required for understanding of the story. It is intended as a way to connect with the main character, his environment, and a few of the other characters while I finish the novel itself. I have earned your support, and this is a way of thanking you and giving back. I hope you enjoy. Mr. Butler’s diary will always be free for anyone to read, so please spread the word. Thank you!
Otherwise, I just wanted to say...WHAT A CONTEST! This is a tight race, and there are a ton of great stories out there! I wish everyone the best! I had no idea this site even existed prior to having this competition recommended to me, and I must say this place is awesome! I hope everyone is having a good time on here enjoying all of the undiscovered authors and dreamers with which you can interact and fall in love.
Have a great day, everyone! Pictures of the process of making Mr. Butler are coming soon, as soon as I figure out how to do that...
Onward...
Love,
-Michael
Dear readers,
Today I want to tell you about a very special new book that’s funding here on Inkshares: my husband’s space opera novel, Infinity Mind -- a novel about a telepathic assassin on a future Mars colony who must break his conditioning before he murders his wife.
Here’s a video we did together to introduce his book and how you can help him reach his funding goal. (And also at long last: the secret of the science fiction book case in my office is revealed!)
Click the picture to be taken to Pat’s page where you can view the video (and pre-order a copy while you’re there):
Pat’s been watching me work hard on connecting to an audience for Blood Dawn here on Inkshares and he’s been lurking in the community for some time, but with the launch of the Nerdist space opera contest we both saw this as a great time for him to make his debut with Infinity Mind. That, and the fact that we both finished our manuscripts last December, so he’s now got his sights on publication.
It would mean so much to me if you could support him by pre-ordering a copy of his book. This book, originally called "Rebirth" when we met, was actually one thing that first brought us together. It was a stormy weekend in May back in 2011 (that weekend when the world was predicted to end) and we both trekked our way across Winnipeg to the Radisson hotel for the annual Keycon writing convention to learn about how to get our respective books published (at the time, I was writing a fantasy trilogy called "The Blood, The Sword, and the Shadow", my second novel). Neither of us found fame, but we found each other and soon we were critiquing each other’s work.
Eventually, we both shelved our work, deciding it wasn’t ripe yet, and we moved on to other things. But Pat always did intend to go back to his novel about Mars colony, its corrupt dictator and her power-hungry right-hand-man, and the mystery hiding far beneath the Martian soil -- and I was eager to find out more about where he was going with the big reveal at the end (no spoilers!). Finally, last year, after seeing how beneficial the Author Accelerator program was for me, Pat decided to use it to rewrite "Rebirth". The result: Infinity Mind.
Again, the link to where you can view the video and pre-order a copy of his book: https://www.inkshares.com/books/infinity-mind
Thanks so much for all your support!
(And fans of Blood Dawn, boy have I got something cooking here for the final push -- reveal is coming sooooon!)
