Weekly update.

Did another talk-radio interview at a South Dakota station (KORN/KQRN) on Thursday.

But the biggest news of the week was my return visit to the Barnes & Noble in Salem, NH.

A week before Christmas I did a book signing event at this store and the managers told me that it was the most successful author appearance there for all of 2015. At that time my book was set up on a table at the front of the store - so a few days ago I went back to see where Journey had been placed on the shelves for the longer term.

As we all know, the vast majority of books are displayed so that you can only see the spine of the book, so the chances that any individual book will stand out from the rest is minimized.

You can imagine how psyched I was to see that Journey was one of the few to recieve the highly coveted "face-out" status!

That alone is pretty exciting, but in addition to that, by pure coincidence my book just happens to be displayed next to the current best-selling title in the sci-fi / fantasy section!

This happened because books in each genre are shelved in alphabetical order by author last name. So the decision to give my friend Mykl Walsh the cover credit led to an unexpected major benefit. Volume I of my serialized novel, SecretAgentMan is "hidden" inside the short story Journey and there is no mention on the cover that my work is what most of this book actually contains.




If you are ready to review Journey, here are the important links - 

http://www.secretagentman.org/PR.pdf (read this document after you have read the book and Before you review it)

http://www.amazon.com/Journey-SecretAgentMan-Mykl-Walsh/dp/1941758479


https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25915392-journey

If you've figured out how cool and ridiculously complex this story is yet, feel free to share it here on Inkshares and on your social media feeds!

On Twitter I'm @RFSaunders

https://twitter.com/RFSaunders

My FB account is https://www.facebook.com/RichFSaunders

Have a great weekend everyone!

Kind regards,

Rich Saunders

Dear readers,

I was a guest on the WriteBrain podcast! Episode 12 of JF Dubeau and Paul Inman's popular podcast aired yesterday and for the first time they had a guest. I was honored to be their first.

Come and listen here on JF's site, where we talk about writing, publishing, some of the fun we all have as authors on Inkshares, and even ... murder confessions!

And while you're there, be sure to check out JF's work. You can pre-order The Life Engineered on Amazon right now. (Here's a link for that: http://www.amazon.com/The-Life-Engineered-J-F-Dubeau)

JF is also still funding his book, A God in the Shed, so if you're into a story about an ancient trans-dimensional god in your backyard shed, check it out and please show your support!

Hey there wonderful people 

I have an announcement to make. I've decided to follow in the footsteps of other fellow Inkshares authers and start a series of preorder raffles!!

For every 50 preorders sold I will raffle off a prize of a lovely fleece blanket with my cool beans cover art on it. I will post a picture of the prize as soon as I can. 

Well well look at that. There are already 50 copies sold. That means I have the first of hopefully many raffles to do. I will post the lucky winner soon. 

Thank you all for your continuing support and don't forget to preorder for your chance to win a lovely price. 

Kelsey Rae Barthel