Hello friends!

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I remain impressed and grateful for your support. Even if you’re just following me to keep track of what’s going on, I appreciate your presence. But, what is going on?

I’m sending personalized emails to followers and supporters of my other book, ‘The Life Engineered’ to ask them to support ‘A God in the Shed’. It’s fun but time consuming and doesn’t leave me much time to create things that might be entertaining for supporters. Thankfully, this awesome little community we’ve formed amongst the participants to this contest have my back. 

Paul Inman, fellow winner of the Sword & Laser contest, author of the upcoming book ‘Ageless’ and currently funding ‘Motor City Chronicles’ surprised me with this awesome voice over of the prologue to ‘A God in the Shed’. Have a listen. It’s incredible. He absolutely nails the tone of the narration, conveying perfectly the sad, detached emotion of the scene.

I think if I take anything away from this contest it will be how much we are now so much more than individual writers trying to break into an insular and increasingly political industry. We are now a burgeoning community of fellow authors supporting each other in our desire to create worlds and tell stories. The lesson of the first contest, how these people with whom I’m competing today are my contemporaries and colleagues of tomorrow has permeated the consciousness of most of the participants. We all want to win the contest but we also all want each other to get published and that’s amazing. Crowdfunding depends on community for its lifeblood and to see this forming in real time is a fantastic experience.

I’d love to think my initial blog posts about working with each other have something to do with it but the truth is that this is something in the very nature of the people involved. My initial plea for mutual support was less a motivator than an observation of an inevitable truth; we are all in this together.

Have you pre-ordered ‘A God in the Shed’ yet? If not, please consider doing so. If Paul’s narration doesn’t convince you then at least go pre-order ‘Ageless’ and/or ‘Motor City Chronicles’ to reward the man for his amazing work.

Thanks Paul.

Thank you everyone for your support.

JF