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Craig A. Munro liked an update for The Life Engineered

 Whoa! My fellow thinking beings, what a ride the last few weeks have been. 

In case you haven’t heard, my second book, A God in the Shed, on Inkshares has funded successfully and will be seeing publication in a few months. It’s pretty exciting stuff but unfortunately I have no time to dwell on it. What else is taking up my thoughts?

DragonCon is starting its own awards. I won’t bury the lead; I want to see The Life Engineered nominated. I mean, I’ll be happy if any Inkshares book gets a nomination but obviously I’d be deliriously happy if The Life Engineered got a nod in there. So this will fusion reaction powering my communications with you for the next little while: Let’s get Inkshares a Dragon Award. Have a look at the nomination page and please consider putting in The Life Engineered for the Science Fiction category. While you’re there, here are some suggestions for other categories if you feel like supporting the Inkshares platform:

  • Fantasy: Asteroid Made of Dragons
  • Horror: An Unattractive Vampire

Click here for the nomination page.

Next up: one of my friends is nearing the end of her funding campaign and she is so very close to her goal of 250 pre-orders. I know I’ve been asking a lot from you guys lately, but if you have a few credits rolling around or you’re just curious about her book, check out A.C. Baldwin’s The Traveller’s Cup. It’s a great book and A.C. is a tremendously promising author and a tireless artist. She deservers this.

Finally, while I’m still asking for favours, currently The Life Engineered is sitting at 80 reviews on Amazon.com. That’s awesome and I love to read the comments and critiques of readers. However, if I can get to 100 reviews, magical things start happening on Amazon. If you’ve read The Life Engineered and enjoyed it, consider leaving a review on Amazon. It helps me more than you can imagine and I’d love you forever.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go prep the funding campaign for Arch-Android.

JF

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    Craig A. Munro liked an update for A God in the Shed

    Hello friend!

    It’s with dark joy in my heart and the lingering effects of celebratory scotch that I come to you this day.

    First, I have an announcement! The winner of the ’I Want to Kill You’ raffle has been decided. He’s accepting the ’honour’ of having his likeness murdered in A God in the Shed and while I can reveal his identity, we have yet to discuss the manner of his demise. Congratulations to Brad Ludwig! I can’t think of a better dude to murder... in a book. Fiction. I’m not really killing Brad.

    In more serious business, I want to ask for your help again. Don’t worry, your wallet and credits are safe this time, however...


    DragonCon is starting its own awards. I won’t bury the lead; I want to see my first book; The Life Engineered nominated. I mean, I’ll be happy if any Inkshares book gets a nomination but obviously I’d be deliriously happy if The Life Engineered got a nod in there. So this will fusion reaction powering my communications with you for the next little while: Let’s get Inkshares a Dragon Award. Have a look at the nomination page and please consider putting in The Life Engineered for the Science Fiction category. While you’re there, here are some suggestions for other categories if you feel like supporting the Inkshares platform:  

    • Fantasy: Asteroid Made of Dragons 
    • Horror: An Unattractive Vampire 
    Click here for the nomination page.

    Last but not last, I have yet another favour to ask, but this time it’s for my friend A.C. Baldwin. She’s is nearing the end of her funding campaign and she is so very close to her goal of 250 pre-orders. I know I’ve been asking a lot from you guys lately, but if you have a few credits rolling around or you’re just curious about her book, check out A.C. Baldwin’s The Traveller’s Cup. It’s a great book and A.C. is a tremendously promising author and a tireless artist. She deservers this.

    Thanks friends. Inkshares has already sent me documents to fill out so we can prepare the first production meeting for A God in the Shed. The wheels start rolling. The book is being made.

    JF
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      Craig A. Munro liked an update for An Unattractive Vampire

      1500 COPIES
      WE DID IT!!!! In fact, we killed it! It’s dead! We are over 1600 copies on our way to 1700. VAMPIRE PARTY!

        (When going to your snobby vampire blood tasting, swirl the blood in your glass and take in the full bouquet.)

      DID YOU KNOW?
      9 out of 10 hypothetical doctors say that leaving a review on Amazon makes you super cool. The last doctor is your dentist who keeps trying to give you adult braces. Don’t listen to her. Leave a review!

      NEWS
      An Unattractive Vampire was this months featured book pick of the Paranormal Shopping Network. I also did an interview with them on Twitter which I compiled into a handy little post here. Also, I will be a spotlighted author on the 125 Pages blog in September.

       Dragon Con is accepting nominations for their new awards and there is a push to get Inkshares authors into the mix. So head over and nominate An Unattractive Vampire in either the Fantasy (Paranormal) category or...Asteroid Made of Dragons in Fantasy and An Unattractive Vampire in Horror. Either way, be sure to nominate The Life Engineered in Science Fiction.

      As for events:
      Tonight

       Our Fair City is having a fundraiser at Headquarters in Chicago (2833 N. Sheffield) Come out, say hi, and support your favorite dystopian mad science audio drama featuring a wall of meat.

      Saturday


      Our Fair City (including me) will be doing a podcasting panel at the Columbia Geek Culture Gala at 2 PM. I will have postcards to hand out and fruit will be SMASHED!

      Next Week:
      I will be returning triumphantly(?) to my old Quad City stomping grounds to sign books for backers at Barley and Rye in Moline, IL. There will also be copies available for those who make a donation to Children’s Therapy Center. 

      OTHER NEWS:

      Big congrats to fellow Sword and Laserer J-F Dubea for hitting tha magic 750 preorder number for his second Inkshares book.

      Remember: there are still lots of worthy books out there looking for love in all the right places (Inkshares). For example Lucky by RH Webster and the contestants for the Live Free or Die...Hard Science competition.

      So that’s all for now.

      Go forth and leave Amazon Reviews.
      (I must be this guy...because I keep Harping on that.)

        


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        Craig A. Munro liked an update for Pilot X

        Halfway There. THANK YOU!

        So we just hit the halfway mark on the way to full publishing of Pilot X. Cannot thank you enough. It’s incredibly humbling to see not only how many people are willing to take a flyer on this novel, but how many of you are going out on Twitter and Facebook and Snapchat and telling other folks about it.

        Y’all are the best.

        I want to put up another sample chapter for you to get a little more of a peek at the book but I’m curious what you might like to see.

        More from the prologue? A page from the Encyclopedia Alenda describing some more about the races? The pinepapple planet?

        Let me know!

        And thanks again!

        Tom

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          Craig A. Munro liked an update for Beyond The Code

          Greetings wonderful people, 

          Quill is just around the corner which is super exciting...but then again the end of the campaign is also not far away which is terrifying!!

            

          Keep it together!

          So I just wanted to drop a line with you fine people who have decided to follow this crazy dream of mine. First of all thank you all soooo very much for you continuing support and awesome feedback. You all have carried me through the uncharted territory of this campaign and I couldn’t be more grateful. 

          Secondly, I need your help to make that last push. We are short only 56 orders till Quill and I know we can make it. So please if you ever wanted to support Beyond the Code put in your pre-order before time runs out. 

          Thanks again

          Kelsey Rae Barthel

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            Craig A. Munro liked an update for Asteroid Made of Dragons

            Asteroid Made of Various Information

            Hello everyone! This space has been a little quiet since launch - but I wanted to update you on some cool things that are happening, new reviews, wheedle some more help out of you, and talk a little about the future.

            • AMOD on Kirkus.com! - The Lighter Side of Science Fiction and Fantasy . Top of the list, son - and it has nothing to do with the alphabet, I’m sure.
            • New review on The Warbler. - "Asteroid Made of Dragons is a self-aware, funny, and action-packed novel that is basically a Dungeons and Dragons adventure in delicious prose. It is absurd and delightful, with a great cast of characters, fun set pieces, and suffused with a larger-than-fantasy-life essence that punctuates every page of the book."
            • My Publisher’s Weekly review, because I’ll never be tired of linking it.
            • Speaking of reviews - I still NEED YOURS on Amazon and Goodreads.
            • Crazy milestone - as of about a week ago, we have sold more books than were pre-ordered, and passed what was the actual pre-order goal without the contest. Probably no one was paying attention to this but me, but I’m super relieved so Inkshares won’t feel like it got cheated.
            • I want to win an award and feel like a fancy person. You can help me do that by nominating my for the first annual Dragon Award at Dragon*Con. YES IT IS A LITTLE ON THE NOSE, I DON’T CARE. Further details here. Being nominated alone would be VITAL exposure for the book, so I’d really appreciate you guys taking a moment if you don’t mind.

            And now, the future? I’m bad about planning my life only so far in advance - with big horizon moments, after which there is nothing. The launch of this book was most definitely a cliff, and now I’m stumbling forward a little aimlessly. There should be more exciting things coming up about AMOD and I’ll tell you all about them as they arise, but the life cycle of a book is long. I can’t keep hovering over my various social media channels waiting for news or refreshing Goodreads and Amazon for the umpteenth time to see if a new review has popped up indefinitely. I’m going to a convention in May, that’ll be fun? I’m writing something new and that’s exciting?

            Are we breaking up? Is this the end? You have what you wanted out of me, now it’s just awkward conversations and remembering the good times.

            As many times as I can, I want to thank you all again. Your support has brought me to a new level, a new leg of this weird-ass writing journey. Expect much less frequent updates here - (unless something CRAZY AWESOME happens) - and come follow me on twitter @gderekadams or on my own blog spell-sword.com.




             

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