Michael Valdez liked a review for Beneath White Clouds

There's a grade-a distinctive voice on display here, fast, clean and full of wit, worth your time to peruse a chapter.

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Michael Valdez liked an update for The Sleeping Man

Good morning Dreamers,

We made it to San Diego... after some brief stops in Vegas and LA, but we’re finally here and I’m about to report in to my intermediary school and then I’ll be on a Destroyer sailing off to [REDACTED] to [REDACTED] some pirates! Also, my Masters classes will soon be drawing to a close and then I’ll have to submit my thesis, which, as it turns out, I cannot use The Sleeping Man anymore because it will be published. So, now I have to write another book for my thesis. #FirstWorldProblems

Also, I would like to announce the formation of The Reviewer’s Association Syndicate (Patent Pending)! This is not only to democratically select books for a block of pre-orders, but to have its members suggest books for review by the syndicate members, and by joining, the agreement is that its members will review the books put forward.

I chose to do this because I had a pre-order campaign fail, and by spending hours a day reviewing and reading books on Inkshares, I have now had that failed campaign succeed (and it’s not even over yet). I want to further this positive network and I want to do that by passing on the tools I used to succeed.

I can’t thank everyone enough for their support, and since we’re guaranteed to get a copy, why not pre-order if you haven’t, share if you have, and help raise money for a great cause.

Sweet Dreams,

Stephen

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Michael Valdez liked an update for Cape’s Side Bay

Hey Cape’s Side Bayers!

We have only 200 pre-orders left until we reach full-publication! I have to say I am grinning non-stop at this. Thank you all for your support of this book, it has been incredible. I can’t wait for you all to read it!

46 days remain in this campaign and I am exhausted, but it’s far from over and 200 orders is still a mountain to climb!

So please, if you have not yet pre-ordered your copy of Cape’s Side Bay you still have a chance to see your name in the back of the book! And if you have ordered, thank you so much and please continue to spread the word and share this book as much as possible (most of you have and I cannot thank you enough!).

Huge congrats to Joni Dee having And The Wolf Shall Dwell reach full-publishing!

Until next time,

James

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Michael Valdez liked an update for Beneath White Clouds

"What?" you ask after opening your inbox. "What what what? An update from Beneath White Clouds? But it’s a dead project!" You stroke your chin in baffled wonder, girding your loins for the coming upheaval. "What is this?"

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See what I did there? Yep. Prose in second person. Just felt the urge to stretch that particular brain-muscle.

So hello one and all. I am writing this update to lay the groundwork for zombifying the heck out of this dead project. It’s voo-doo time! Why? Well, I started receiving some of the Inkshares and Quill projects I backed and they’re good, they’re outside the norm, they excite me, they have re-invigorated my interest in the idea of Inkshares. Bunch of paradigm-busting geeky punks.

I’ve heard it said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing twice but expecting different results. But who cares? I’m gonna do it again! I’m putting on my Quixote pants and revving up for another Inkshares drive! And this time, I have a plan!

What plan?

Well, I plan to run the crowdfunding campaign with a modicum of preparation. Prepare to talk. Prepare for outreach. Prep for updates. Prep for games, prizes, funstuff! Stuff what’s fun and cool. Or, as Rishi Bee once said, "fucool," which sounds like an insult, but assuredly is not.

I’ve got things to do to make this work. Groovy things. But groovin’ voodoo takes time. I tentatively expect to hit the go button on the new campaign in August-ish.

The purpose of this update is to ping my first-run followers. PING! I’m sounding the depths. Imagine you’re in a submarine, all cramped corridors and low-hanging conduits, creaking noises, the crushing weight of thousands of feet of water hanging like an obese lurgy of doom overhead. PING!

If you’re diggin’ on the notion of Beneath White Clouds charging ahead for a Quill or Inkshares publication, then PING back. By which I mean "like" this update.

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Michael Valdez liked an update for The Amaranth Chronicles: Deviant Rising

Guess who was almost killed by a Time Machine? I don’t make this stuff up you guys...

https://youtu.be/LK-_zE1YvgM

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Michael Valdez sent an update for Blurred Weaponry (Saints of the Void, Book 1)

Short update today!

I always underestimate how long it will take for a YouTube project, so the last three days have been me staring at colored bars in After Effects for extended periods of time. It doesn’t help that I always kind of go hard despite not knowing what I’m doing. Oh well. Here that new clip, which I’m pretty happy with as a bit of world-buildy info for the book.

Nes Costume Analysis

Now that my edits are done (maybe like fifty more words for a specific thing I forgot in my notes), I have to give it to my editor and await the Red-Lined Yelling. It also means I’ve started finalize the plot of Sinopia Property Management, which is looking quite different than anything I’ve done in a lot of cool ways. Also, there’s a character in it named after my Dominican loanshark / banker grandpa. Just wanted to say that somewhere besides my own head.

Peace out!

(And, don’t forget to click these next words to download the three-chapter preview, and maybe review the project and let me know what you think? I’m asking nicely before I start the process of begging for pre-orders ^.^)

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