Juan Alverez has his shop vandalized by a group of thugs. He has to find out who is hurting him.
Yo, readers!
As I said earlier, there would be a late update today. So, officially, I welcome you to our 12th Detective Sunday by yours truly. Technology can be a hassle to deal with when you got plans set out for you, so I apologize for the hold up. Now, I hope everyone’s doing alright these days, and I also hope you’re enjoying your summer because it’s slowly coming to an end. I’ve been staying in the most of my summer, and that’s mostly because I’m writing or chatting up with friends I’ve known for years but are way too distant for me to spend time with them. Anyways, I’m shying away from the purpose of this update. Let’s jump into it.
First, I want to mention that there will be a spike in orders this upcoming week. The majority of these orders are coming from family members or friends, and the desired goal I have is somewhere around 30-40 orders. It’s a nice jump from where we are now, and it can be very well possible if you guys assist me as well. Help make the load easier by contributing, and those of you who are writers are open to PM about anything as far as trades go.
Next up, the 2016 LaunchPad Manuscript Competition. Now, this all really just came out of the blue and I was rather intrigued by it because it’s different from the other competitions. I couldn’t join the others because I either wasn’t here at the time or my books didn’t fit the category. This competition doesn’t seem to have specific genres, and I’m a competitive guy, so I see no problem with going through with it. I was debating on using an old project of mine called Rewind, or possibly the new idea I’ve been dreaming about called Changing Seasons. Rewind is about a highschool boy in his senior year that has the power to wind back time for a split-second in order to correct specific errors. The power was bestowed upon him when he lost his parents in a wreck, and ever since, he’s been using his power to save lives; however, when he transfers to a new school, he couldn’t save a particular girl from death and struggles with keeping her alive after saving her because a much darker force is after her. It turns into a much bigger story when he learns of how he got the power and the effects of abusing time. Changing Seasons is a collection of short stories that spans over seasons. I’m debating about how many stories, but a few heart-to-heart sequences that I came up with involves an immortal living in a village alone, but watching over the deceased, or a sacrifice going on a pilgrimage and coming to the end which results in death in order to keep the world stable. Either way, I will have the opportunity to work on my writing and challenge myself against fellow writers who are very skilled.
Sooo that’s about it for this update. Once again, sorry for the late update, and have a good rest if it’s night for you as well, or good morning when you read it the next day!
Until next time, A.J.III.
Thank you to everyone who has placed a repeat order for SQUIDS IN following my last update. As a result the book is that little bit closer to publication.
Hendrix the Octopus is continuing in his promotion of the book, though personally I suspect he’s just playing Pokemon Go!
Special thanks to Nick Holden who ordered 10 BOOKS!!! Nick races in the Britcar series over here in the UK in a Renaultsport RS-01 and uses one of my Race-Keeper HDX2 onboard video-data logging systems. Now tell me that this isn’t a gorgeous looking race car...
110 orders in 46 days. LET’S DO THIS!!!
Matthew
POSTATHON UNDERWAY!!!!!
Hello all 231 readers... the postathon is officially underway!
If you have a facebook and are able please help me by posting on your page.
Copy and Paste the post below & tag in a comment or the post 10 friends you challenge to do the same...
READ ENTIRE POST PLEASE:
DO NOT SKIP:
My Friend @MatthewDho wrote a book & to get it published he needs people to Pre-Order a copy for $10. I am asking all my friends who see this to order a copy and support his dreams.WHAT YOU GET IF YOU PRE-ORDER…
1. A copy of the book
2. Entry into a contest to win 2 Tickets to the sports team of your choice!
3. Help the victims of the Pulse Night Club shooting. (Matthew is giving all his proceeds to the victim’s families)
4. Help someone achieve their dreams
5. Tell people you helped publish a book
6. Something great to read.
7. Early access to books 2 & 3. (Beta read chapters and early drafts. Author’s notes)
8. My affection and gratitude
9. Matthews affection & gratitude(Copy & Paste this as an update on your Facebook, then Tag 10 People you Challenge to post this as well!) I Challenge you. ENTIRE POST PLEASE:
Hopefully, this will gain a lot of notice about I Am Waltz and people will push us to the Quill Goal!
Reminder: if you have not ordered yet, there is no better time than now. We need to push hard to get the quill goal accomplished sooner rather than later!
If you ever thought about ordering but haven’t yet... well Willy Wonka is wondering why...
Love you all,
Matt
Today I’m excited to reveal our new cover for BLUE WATER. Our old one was designed in roughly five minutes to replace the generic cover Inkshares gives you when you start your book page. And since everything with the first campaign was done in haste, designing a cover never really occurred to me. The first campaign fizzled out, and the old cover just sat there.
Then we started the new campaign, and there it was still. Boring, not eye catching, not even sized properly. Nothing but the title giving a hint about the tone of the book, some blurry design behind it, just letting the potential reader glance past it without noticing. And being that Inkshares is a game of getting noticed, it was doing me no favors. And by doing me no favors, it was doing you no favors, because if it doesn’t get seen it doesn’t published, and you don’t get to read it.
So, with that in mind, I set out to design something that would jump off the screen and grab attention. Hopefully, I’ve done that.
Whaddaya think?
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