CAMPERS!
Sunshine is Forever’s Inkshares page now has a status bar so that you can follow the book on its road to publication. As you can see, the official release date for Sunshine is Forever is August 14, 2017! I can’t wait for you to hold the book in your hands!
Keep spreading the word and ask your friends to preorder as well! The final cover and final sample chapters are coming soon!
Kyle T. Cowan
Dear Fans of the Assasin, Earlier this week I signed all the pre-ordered paper copies of Tears of the Assassin. Today I shipped them back to California for distribution on the publication date of Feb. 7th. I gotta tell ya, it was really cool to see my book in print. To hold in my hands the cover, the words, the story, it was very gratifying. I know I have all of you to thank for that surreal experience of book building culmination!. With gratitude and appreciation, I thank you for your support. I would also appreciate it if you would check out my Willian Schiele Facebook page. Thanks
Hello fellow undead friends...
So, we enter winter finally. The time with the longest night of the year. It’s also the time that you’ve all finally gotten your books after all this time. So, before I start sacrificing small chickens to get reviews from people... let’s get you reading. Here is what you need to know!
The Digital Ebook... Mobi, PDF, Kindle versions will be available for all you backers THIS FRIDAY! Early! When the time comes, you’ll be able to download them from your Inkshares bookshelf by clicking HERE and signing in with the same email or facebook login you used to order the book. Simply click on your picture to the right, and download your style. I’m sure that there will be an email sent out from inkshares about it.
The physical book should be shipping soon, or very soon. Check your email, check your spam folders and make sure that you got a confirmation email of shipping address. Hopefully, you all get them in time for this:
Feel free to bring your books to the event and I’ll gladly sign them!
I’ll also be at Midwinter Gaming Convention in 7 days and Emerald City Comic Con in early March.
For now, I just want to issue a massive thank you from the bottom of my heart to all those who helped me out in the contest over a year ago to bring things to where they are now. Now it’s time for you guys to finally enjoy some apocalyptic fiction and me to keep writing!
Thank you so much everyone!
~Rick Heinz
Hey! Long time no update. But happy new year to all, and I thought I’d give thanks one more time to everybody who helped make a scene like this happen (this was at Vroman’s Bookstore in Pasadena shortly after the book was published. Pasadena is largely where the novel is set, so pretty appropriate, huh?)
The book often sells nicely when it’s promoted on one or another book-buying site (especially eBooks) and I’m so grateful to be able to hold it in my hands. That feeling never seems to wear off. If you have read the book -- whether you liked it or not but preferably you liked it! -- please leave an Amazon review. The more reviews there are, the more the book gets promoted on Amazon. Here’s a link to the page. Just scroll down to Write a Customer Review. It can be as brief as a sentence.
Also in 2016 my novella Falconer was published in four parts on Nikki Finke’s Hollywood Dementia, with amazing artwork by John Donald Carlucci. In case you missed it, here’s a link. Nikki recently made a deal with HBO to develop properties that were published on the site, so keep fingers crossed!
http://hollywooddementia.com/nikki-finke-fiction-falconer-part-one-by-jason-pomerance/
But it’s a new year and on to the new. Two things to report on the book front. I’m in the process of finishing up edits and revisions on Celia at 39, a new novel, one that falls more into the Chick-Lit category. Here’s a little blurb about it:
Celia Bernhart thought she had her life all figured out. She should, right, because she’s turning 39 in a week. She’s a success in her career. She’s about to marry her longtime boyfriend Barry. But then a package gets mis-delivered to the house she and Barry share -- Actually, it’s the right address, but it’s nearly forty years late! Celia becomes determined to deliver the package to its rightful owner, but when she does it turns her very well-ordered life completely upside down.
We’ll most likely be trying to go down the more traditional publishing route on this book since it falls more neatly into a genre. Stay tuned for more -- hopefully good news -- about this.
But if you’re interested in supporting another Inkshares book, read on. Many of you know that we have not one but two beagles, George and Derric. George was adopted as a puppy from some folks who couldn’t handle him, but Derric’s adoption story is very, very different and, frankly, a little more disturbing. We came to Derric from a wonderful organization called the Beagle Freedom Project, which negotiates to get animals being subjected to laboratory tests freed. Until we had stumbled on the Beagle Freedom Project, we did not know that thousands of beagles were spending their lives in cages in labs all over the world. There are some who think these animals can’t make the transition from lab life to freedom, but Derric has a different story to tell, and that’s what this book is about. In fact he’s helping me write it. Click the link below to read more about this new book, and please follow its progress. Even better pick up a pre-order if you can.
https://www.inkshares.com/books/love-derric-my-journey-from-laboratory-experiment-to-freagle-who
So that’s it for now. Thanks again, and I hope everybody has a happy and healthy 2017.
Happy New Year friends.
First let’s take a look at 2016.
1- Lies and Deception got funded.
2- We have helped the amazing : A God in the Shed by the talented JF Dubeau.
3- The Anthology, which include my short story Hardcore : Too Many Controllers won the Nerdist Video game contest.
4- I launched the campaign for Arcadia.
Now for 2017
1- After some major changes to Lies and Deception, the book will be in the hands of the 2nd set of Beta readers in one week.
2- ARCADIA : we have 33 days left to the campaign and 107 copies to go before reaching Quill level.
This is where I , once again ask for your support friends,
a-If you follow Arcadia and didn’t ordered it yet this is be the perfect timing do to so
b-If you already ordered Arcadia, please find one person who will enjoy horror short stories.
Don’t forget I still have copies of A God in The Shed, each order = 1 chance to win a physical copy of this awesome book :)
Once again thank you my friends, and I hope 2017 will be as good as 2016 was for me :-)
Happy 2017!
I know it has been a long long time since any of you have heard anything from me. 2016 and Cape’s Side Bay got interesting.
At one point I thought we had hit full publishing, then it turned out we hadn’t, and the book was in limbo. I spoke with Inkshares and they were great, but I still wasn’t sure about the future of the book. Then, randomly, in November I received an email informing me that Cape’s Side Bay would be a participant in THE LIST contest. The final Inkshares contest of 2016. It was a contest were the participants were selected by Inkshares staff and peers. It meant a lot to me to see Cape’s Side Bay get a nomination. I, however, was exhausted and still not sure if participating in the list was something I had the energy to do.
Ultimiately I decided it was worth a shot, and someone we were able to come out on top!
Cape’s Side Bay is getting published! It took a little longer than anticipated, but we did it. I could not have done it without all of you.
Thanks especially to my wife Erin for putting up with me and obsessing over the orders! And to my family and friends! It was quite an experience, one that has only just started.
A special congratulations to the other two books, Murder at the Veterans Club by Christopher Huang. When I first started thinking about my campaign I spoke to Christopher several times and he was a great help. I am extremely pleased to see his book reach full publishing!
Sorcery for Beginners by Matt Harry. He came up strong towards the end of the campaign and manage to bump up in the list and finish top 3!
I look forward to reading these books, and I look forward to all of you reading Cape’s Side Bay.
James
Also, please check out the Inkshares blog to fully understand the timeline in which you can expect Cape’s Side Bay. It will take around a year, but it will be worth it!
And if you haven’t ordered Cape’s Side Bay yet you STILL CAN! And at a discounted price! SAY WHHAAAATT?
https://www.inkshares.com/books/cape-s-side-bay
Happy New Year!
Happy 2017 Followers of the Space Sloth!
Thank you again for supporting this draft as it moves along. To show my appreciation I’m providing a link to a new short(ish) story set in the Fortunes of the Space Sloth world. It’s called "Collateral Hazards". This story takes place before the draft book’s events. It provides a little more world building and if you pay attention you might see some clues to explain why things work the way they do on the Space Sloth.
Collateral Hazards, by P.A. Tebbe
I hope you enjoy it. Happy New Year.
PT
So the List ends tomorrow. I had hoped to have 2 chapters up by then, but I hadn’t counted on:
Y’know...best laid plans and all that, but it’s not all bad news!
Things will likely quiet down for a bit after New Years, though I’ll be sure to do an update once the results of the List are known, and I’ll do my best to update the page regularly.
Keep an eye on that horizon.
and onwards to 2017...
