Sadie Fans,

We did it! With your amazing support and savvy sharing, SADIE MCGRADY, LEADING LADY has reached 1,000 pre-orders! Go ahead, do a happy dance and jump for joy. This was no small feat. After a few months of editing and revising, this empowering picture book will be available via Amazon, through major bookstores, and in independent bookstores. Sadie will get her chance to inspire young readers, thanks to you. Stay tuned for publishing updates and please continue spreading the word to grow awareness about this spunky, new candidate. 

As you talk to friends about Sadie’s success, let them know that orders can still be placed using our Inkshares link: https://www.inkshares.com/books/sadie-mcgrady-leading-lady 

With gratitude,

Mary & Corey

Sadie is on Facebook and Twitter - spread the word!

Quick exciting update to share!

Today I had the honor of being a guest on the Inkshares blog. I was asked some questions about the relentless community building work I’ve been helping with, and given an opportunity to reflect on the future of the Inkshares vision of a democratic publishing model:

http://blog.inkshares.com/post/139935867965/qa-with-john-robin-a-pillar-of-the-inkshares

Enjoy -- and please share this. The more readers who know about Inkshares, the better.

p.s. remember a few months ago I rallied to help get Jack Bender’s, The Elephant in the Room to its funding goal? Well, I received my three copied yesterday -- and read it in one sitting. What a great book! Stephen King calls it a picture book for adults, and it comes with high praise from J.J. Abrams and David Benioff and D.B. Weiss. Well, I read it in one sitting. What a book! In some parts I laughed hard, but most places touched my heart. Jack has a dark sort of wisdom that’s contagious and it was nice to spend a good hour with him in those pages. Highly recommended! Here’s a link: http://www.amazon.com/The-Elephant-Room-Jack-Bender/dp/1941758797

My wife just sent this to me. Now that I’ve finished fanning out, it occurs to me to wish with all my might that people in some far off future time might someday freak out similarly upon the discovery of some bit of MY half-baked ephemera....

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/feb/16/unseen-jrr-tolkien-poems-found-in-school-magazine