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A virus wiped out every male on Earth, leaving the females to carry on alone. Now, five centuries later, the genome is breaking down and the only hope may lie in something long lost.

James Rasile liked an update for Asteroid Made of Dragons

I was pawing through my blog archives for an old April Fool’s bit - and I actually stumbled onto something I don’t remember writing. (All too common.) It’s from 3 years ago, after I finished my first book. It’s strange and sort of wonderful to look back and feel like maybe I’ve gotten a little closer to the things I talk about here -- and it’s all because of you.

I Want - 4/25-2013

Like Heinlein said, I want the Roc’s Egg.

I want the leather of my sword-grip to creak as my knuckles go white. I want the lightning to crackle between my fingertips like Egg Shen. I want the Flux Capacitor to ignite as I travel through time.

I want the power, I want the fairy tale.

I want to run down the secret hallway, and slam my rainbow colored key into the console of the Black Lion. I want to save the universe with Rock and Roll, my electric guitar made of steel and griffon-talon. I want to wake up in the middle of the night to the sound of Holmes and Watson clattering by in a horse-drawn carriage.

I want the legend, I want the world of doors.

I want the Master Sword dreaming in the glade, and Excalibur in the Lady’s hand, and Cloud picking up Zach’s sword — his mind all wind and shadow.

I want all the promises that the world is not as it seems. I want Mulder and Scully in a Ford Taurus arguing with the night. I want all the possibilities, the promise of wonder. I want Seven Dragonballs, even if I never get to make a wish.

I want the doors. The endless, endless doors.

I want this world to be not as it is. Or, at the very least, I want the walls of this world to get a little thinner. Thin enough to hear the music from the Universe One Over.

I want to tell my story and I want my mom to get better and I want there to be enough money and I want Emerson back. I want my Beloved to never know pain or doubt, and I want my friends to never know want or despair.

I want to break the rules. I want to undo and shine and defeat and cheat death, cheat life, mashing in the codes on my controller and rolling back the cruel grip of time.

I want to snatch the lost from death’s grip.

I want to not be afraid. Of the Unmaker and its thousand, thousand shadows.

I want there to be more magic in this world, because there is so little — just a tiny, tiny drop.

Such a little thing to shine in the darkness. The secret flame we clutch in weary hands through the wind and rain.

I want the thousand heroes, I want the doors open wide.

Most of all, I want you to help me pry them open.

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No reminders or promo-flogging today. Just wanted to share this and say thank you again - for helping a stranger tip-toe down an uncertain path. And I use ’stranger’ here in the way you would ’baker’ or ’potter’ - something I make, not that you don’t know my social media profile.

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James Rasile liked an update for The Decaying Destiny of Rob the Zombie

To my zombie hoard: Chapter two has been uploaded for your viewing pleasure. I hope you enjoy it and please do spread the word to all of your other followers that may enjoy Rob the Zombie’s story and all the crazy antics that he WILL be getting himself into. I plan on him doing things and eating certain people that will affect him in interesting ways. That being said, here’s a teaser as to what I mean....lol. Thanks for your support and help me get the word out, please! Thanks!

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James Rasile liked an update for The Tulip Factory

Hello, Spring! And just in time! While tulips are coincidently blooming across the state of NC, so is The Tulip Factory which is now in 17 bookstores across the United States! I can’t wait to meet, greet and sign copies of my book this summer at some of these amazing local indie book shops! Something else kind of cool... Barnes and Noble recently picked up my book as well!!?! (attempting to maintain composure) So you can also preorder/purchase The Tulip Factory from their website. Thank you ALL for helping me get to where I am today. The readers, sharers, shoppers... My friends, family and genuine book lovers... And those not so much into books but who supported me anyway... THANK YOU! xxo

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James Rasile liked an update for It’s All Fun and Games

Happy Spring everyone!

So things have been progressing nicely with the project, and since I’ve got some more info for you I thought I’d pass it along.

First, you can now find It’s All Fun and Games on both B&N and Amazon’s web pages. The book obviously isn’t out yet, but it’s cool to see it available for preorder on the big sites.

Second, we are getting ever closer to having the finished product. After copy editing was done we moved into proofreading, and that process is now done as well. So the book is pretty much in its final form. The amount of care that went into every step of the editing process was amazing - the proofreader actually caught a letter out of a word that wasn’t italicized when the rest was. Talk about professionalism! The editing team over at Girl Friday has been great!

So where are we now? Well, the marketing work has begun. The folks over at Inkshares and The Nerdist have been sending out galleys to influencers and other folks who might be willing to write blurbs for the novel. We’re hoping to get a couple great quotes to stick on the cover before we go to print. Speaking of which, at the beginning of May the cover, with all the text added, will be finalized and the files will be sent to the printer. Copies have also been going to bookstores, book clubs, etc., drumming up interest for the book once it is released.

The printed books will be in San Fran by the end of June, with backer copies going out not long afterwards and the book in Bookstores August 2. Ebooks will be available early July as well, so folks will be able to get started even before getting the physical copy.

The marketing blitz will be starting up in another month or two as well. Inkshares has so far been keeping cards close to the chest in terms of initial print run, so your guess is as good as mine, but the sense I’m getting is that most, if not all, of the stops are being pulled out. Super cool.

Now I’m sure you’re wondering how you can help promote It’s All Fun and Games! I’m glad you asked! There are a couple things we can do now before the book comes out.

First, don’t forget to join me on Facebook here and Twitter @llabak. Then, you can share updates and tweets with your own social networks.

Second, if you use Goodreads, you can do a few different things:

- Add the book to your list of "Want to Reads" The book page is here.

- Share the book with your other Goodreads friends. Inkshares is sponsoring a giveaway - 5 copies of the advance galley will be given out in a random draw of all those entering. It’s an advance copy, so you can enter too and get the book before all your friends!

- Vote for It’s All Fun and Games on the Goodreads lists, and ask your friends to do the same. If you visit this page here you’ll see a bunch of lists that it is a part of. A couple dozen votes in each of those may help increase visibility and create an avalanche effect as more people gain interest.

So that’s where we stand. I also want to remind everyone that Inkshares and the Nerdist are continuing to partner for more contests. The last contest, for a Space Opera, just recently ended with the top three books getting right around 300 buyers. There is a new contest that just got started for Hard Sci-Fi, sponsored by Geek and Sundry (a Nerdist sister company). If you’ve been sitting on a novel (or even an idea that you’ve been toying with), go for it! The funding mechanism has changed a little bit, but it’s still super doable.

Thank you all again for your support!

Cheers

Dave

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James Rasile liked an update for Space Tripping

It’s been just over two weeks since the contest ended, and I’m still on Cloud 9. You all have no idea how much your support has meant to me. Thank you so very much!

I realized I had better give you all an update as to where we are in the process. Inkshares is currently pairing me with an editing and design team. Once they’ve cleaned up the manuscript, we go into production. My understanding is that the book will go into distribution sometime this summer... possibly as late as September.

Please continue to spread the word, as people can still make preorders!

And speaking of that, if you’ve been to the order site since the contest ended, you might have noticed a slight drop in the prices. This is because those contest orders all went to cover the initial publishing costs... and they all came with perks (the personalized signed copies for the paperbacks, name printed in the back of the book for super readers, etc.)

I have a list of those who contributed during the contest and am planning some special acknowledgements.

I cannot thank you all enough.

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James Rasile liked an update for Sync City

Greetings Jackolytes,

The end is nigh. 21 pre-orders to go. 26 days to get there. What would Jack do? Easy. He’d grab a beer and relax. I shall join Jack in that beer later today. But before then I’d like you to think of anyone you know who’d like to come along for the ride. Send them in this direction: www.inkshares.com/books/sync-city If you haven’t pre-ordered yet, it’s be great if you could do so. If you feel like pre-ordering again, that’d also be fantastic. If you want to have a chat, you can find me at blooryan@hotmail.com .

Cheers,

Peter

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