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Supplanters are nearly impossible for mortal men to kill, making war against them difficult. Their goal is to destroy your soul and take control of your body. This is Aaron and Tace’s reality, and it’s about to be ours.
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Hello readers! Things ARE progressing well! My first video update is here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5Az9m898O0

Also, I’ve started selling pre-orders again! As you’re a follower of this book (thank you!) please seriously consider supporting it by ordering a copy. The more the merrier, but one is fun, too!

The video updates will be weekly, but I may also update in here any time during the week.

Thanks again for your support and please share with your friends!

Cliff

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    Eric H. Heisner liked the forum thread, More Readers
    Yeah, @johnsoncm , It’s crowd funding. Before you crowd fund, you’ve got to have your own platform and do your own legwork. 70% of your book funding needs to come from your own resources easily right now. 

    I know it’s the harsh truth, what @Ricardo Henriquez is saying has merit. 

    As part of what you are doing in crowd funding is selling yourself and practicing your self promotion skills. 

    Syndicate backing isn’t a matter, or a metric, of if a book will sell or not. That’s more a matter of community engagement. Authors who are helpful to the community, will be picked up by Syndicates more than anything else.

    Which, does increase the chance the book will fund. But you’ve still gotta bring your own readers to the table. 

    There just simply aren’t enough authors to reliably fund a book from someone else on the website. I could go further into some tactics and some math behind stuff. 

    One thing to do: Is recruit people who want to support as readers, to join syndicates. Although that’s a hard sell because basically you are paying a lot of money for years before you get a product. 

    However just so you know: Inkshares Nirvana moment is when they have enough readers on the site where it’s easier to fund, and they are indeed working on that behind the scenes. It’s just going to take years for that kind of traction to build up. 

    They do, however, come. I’ve got 5 people who are just avid readers that stalk a lot of books on here. I brought them to Inkshares with me. Now imagine if every other author had 1-2. 

    Eventually...
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      I agree with you  @johnsoncm  that is a great book, but maybe this is not the right platform for that book to see the light. All I’m saying is that Inkshares is what it is. It is a crowdfunding platform and like any other crowdfunding platform it is on us the authors to make sure our projects hit their goals, not on them. That is just how this business model works. I don’t mean to be heartless, just matter of fact. As authors we need to make the best strategic decisions to get our work out, if crowdfunding is not something we are good at, or have the time or network to do, then Inkshares is not the right avenue for us. We can’t expect them to change their business model just because the books we like don’t succeed. Believe me, I support a lot of books here and I’m sad every time one of them don’t fund.
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        I think that something you have to take into consideration is that inkshares is a crowdfunding platform, which means you are in charge of bringing enough readers so your project succeeds. The idea of being salesmen selling to other salesmen come from the mistaken perception that the way to funding is from selling within Inkshares. Inkshares is too young for that. The bulk of your sales have to come from people you know and their extended networks.

        Readers will come. Once the books they are publishing start picking up steam and inkshares’ authors build a readership beyond those who helped them fund, people will come, but we are some time away from that still. AS of now, it is on you to find the people in the real world that will come here and purchase your book. Very few of those will stick around and support other authors. It is what it is right now.

        I believe the strategy Inkshares is utilizing is the right one. I know they are aware that most of the burden for funding is on the author right now and they want to help reduce that burden. I doubt a form to do that will be giving a % to a reader. I certainly wouldn’t use the platform if that was the case.

        PS: I am fan of your book. Bought it early on. I hope you fund because I want to read it.
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          Eric H. Heisner liked an update for A Bedlamite in Shadow

          Hey Everyone,

          Just wanted to drop a quick note, as I will be away for the weekend. We hit 151 pre-orders this week. That means we just need 99 to hit our goal.

          Since we hit the 150 mark, it is time for our raffle for an Amazon gift card. I will be randomly drawing a name and the winner will be announced early next week. Once we hit 200, we will have another. So, if you have yet to order, this is a good time to do so, as it will automatically enroll you in the raffle. And, remember, every individual order gets enrolled.

          Thanks again for your support.

          Rob

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            Eric H. Heisner liked an update for Mission 51

            Woohoo!!  Mission 51 just passed the 150 pre-order mark! This is very exciting! Do you know what that means? It means we can run the Mission 51 Raffle!

            I will now enter the names of every person who pre-ordered Mission 51 so far into Riffle Raffle. Here is a link to the original post and rules for the raffle. The winner will be chosen randomly, electronically.

            I’ll announce the winner sometime this weekend. Good luck! :-)

            And please, keep pushing Mission 51 to all your peeps. We still have 97 pre-orders to go, and only 22 days in which to do it, for Inkshares to publish this book! We can do it!!! :-)

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              Eric H. Heisner liked an update for The Frozen Wastes

              NINE MONTHS... nein! Months!!

              Wow - so I’ve been out of the game for quite awhile. I hadn’t quite thrown in the towel, but I dropped it on the floor and kicked it under the locker. Now it’s time to fish it out and wash it and start drying again. Or polishing. Or whatever - the point is ALWAYS HAVE A TOWEL. 

              I’ve started work on the novel again; kind of starting over again, kind of not. I’m going to start doing weekly writing updates on my YOUTUBE channel this Friday, July 15. Also I’ll try to keep things going on my blog over at www.thecliffbailey.com. 

              Thank you all for sticking around! And thank you to those who have joined up when I wasn’t doing a single thing! The story is not dead and Perilea Greyleaf will have her adventure!

              Cliff

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