Matthew Isaac Sobin liked an update for After Death

Hi, everybody!

A while back, Jessica Rothert, an actress with whom I share a bunch of mutual friends, reached out to me to let me know that, unbeknownst to me, she had decided to record the first chapter of AFTER DEATH for her demo reel, as an example of her reading an audiobook.

She sent me a copy of her recording, and hearing it was such a moving experience for me that I wanted to share it with all of you!

Click the image below to check it out on YouTube:

Give it a listen on your drive home tonight, or on your hike tomorrow, or while you’re working out. If you like what you hear and haven’t yet ordered a copy of the book, please consider doing so!

Thank you so much!

Dan

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Matthew Isaac Sobin sent an update for California’s Lost Gold - Illustrated Poetry

Hey All!

Oh boy, do I have a rad illustration for you today! Art master Jack Katz has outdone himself. I am in love with this composition for the new poem "Suits". It’s something straight out of The First Kingdom! Hope you dig it too! -Matt

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Matthew Isaac Sobin liked an update for Squids In

Hey There Tentacle Lovers!

A fresh rewrite of my video-game playing octopus story "Squids In" will be coming to Inkshares soon, so make sure you keep following the project on Inkshares - https://www.inkshares.com/books/squids-in

Matthew

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Matthew Isaac Sobin liked an update for The Punch Escrow

Hello glorious The Punch Escrow backers!

By now I hope you’ve all received your books. If you haven’t, please let the good folks at Inkshares know. This update is to let you know the inside scoop on the movie adaptation news you’ve all been asking me about, as well as to let you know when you’ll all be receiving your early backer exclusive prize.

Okay, let’s talk about The Punch Escrow movie! The most important thing you need to know is that the book has been OPTIONED but that option has not been exercised yet. This means that The Punch Escrow movie is like Schrodinger’s Cat. It’s in the box. We won’t know whether it’ll get made or not until we get to see inside the box. What I can tell is you that it’s a hell of a lot more likely to get made if the book becomes a bestseller. And for the book to become a bestseller we need REVIEWS.

You don’t need to buy your book on Amazon to post a review. As you know, I’m a loud and passionate advocate of Indie bookstores. But! — Amazon reviews matter a lot for conversions. We’re at 23 — The magic number is 101. After 100 reviews Amazon’s algorithm treats the book differently. It kicks things into a flywheel effect that puts the book front and center as a recommended product for like properties (like, say, Dark Matter, or Ready Player One) much more often. So — if you’ve read the book and enjoyed it, please consider posting a review. That’s the thing that you can do to help the movie happen.

Last weekend, after my event at LA’s delicious Book Soup, I met with the man Lionsgate has hired to adapt and direct The Punch Escrow film. His name is James Bobin. He’s a director and co-creator of Flight of The Conchords (to date my favorite HBO show of all time), and he directed The Muppets reboot, its sequel, as well as Alice Through The Looking Glass. I believe his work on Flight of The Conchords makes him a unique fit for the adaptation because — if you read the synopsis of the show it sounds very sad and derivative: two lazy Kiwi guys in a band try to "make it" in New York but fail at every turn. It sounds like a depressing Kiwi/East Coast version of Tenacious D, right? Many of the same things could be (and have been) said about The Punch Escrow; many who read the synopsis instantly accuse it of being derivative of everything from The Prestige to Think Like A Dinosaur, and so a director who has experience in both turning a dire synopsis into a lighthearted, funny story full of childlike wonder, and ensuring that said story is so obviously different that no one could accuse it of being derivative of anything — those two capabilities are essential to the successful adaptation of my book (IMO of course). Here’s me with James. I may have had a post-gig martini or two at this point. Yes, this definitely looks like my "two martini face":

The other factor to consider here is James’ amazing work on The Muppets reboot. Not only did he produce a uniquely original take on The Muppets, but his work on that film largely involved working with sentient puppets. Those of you who have read The Punch Escrow will understand the value of that skill when adapting a world full of sentient cars, rooms, and robots.

But, again, none of this will matter if the book option doesn’t get exercised, and to do that, we need reviews!

Since many of you are still reading, I’m holding off the special early backer-only surprise I’ve prepared for you as a reward for surpassing 5,000 sales (we’re just north of 7,500 now!). because it contains spoilers. But I’ll tell you what it is: I’m going to give you a chapter that’s been cut out of the book! An entire chapter! You’re getting the "author’s cut" of The Punch Escrow with this as its special feature. This will be delivered to you lot when we hit 101 reviews! So...

Ta ta for now, and thank you for all your amazing and gracious support,

Tal

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Matthew Isaac Sobin liked an update for A God in the Shed

Hello horror fans!

There’s so much I want to talk about today, but for simplicity’s sake, I’ll keep it to two thing and both of them are a plea for help.

Please, if you can, review A God in the Shed on Amazon and Goodreads. There’s a long list of reasons why you should do this. Some are marketing, some have to do with the television option, but mostly, you want to win the leather bound copy I’m raffling off when we reach 100 reviews on Amazon.

Wow... for a second year in a row, one of my books is nominated for a Dragon Award. That’s right, A God in the Shed is nominated in the horror category. You can turn this nomination into an actual victory. Just head over to the voting page and fill out the form and when the voting ballot comes in please vote for A God in the Shed.

NOTE: If you don’t know how to fill out the rest of the ballot, here are some suggestions!

Horror Novel: A God in the Shed, by J-F. Dubeau
Science Fiction: Rise, by Brian Guthrie
Young Adult/Middle Grade: It’s All Fun and Games, by Dave Barrett
Apocalyptic Novel: The Seventh Age: Dawn, by Rick Heinz
Fantasy Novel: Dangerous Ways, by R.R. Virdi (a friend of mine)

Thank you again for your support. I fail as a writer because I can’t conjure the proper words to tell you how much your help has meant.

JF

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Matthew Isaac Sobin liked an update for Not Afraid of the Fall: 114 days through 38 cities in 15 countries.

Friends and Family,

WE ARE MAKING WAVES!

Not Afraid of the Fall is ranking incredibly high right now thanks to you guys and has almost broken the top 100 Best Selling books on Amazon. Spoiler - there are a TON of books on Amazon...

However, we are in dire need of reviews. In order for the book to gain exposure and be seen on larger pages, we need 100 reviews. We currently have 15 and they are terrific (for the most part), but 15 is not quite enough!

If you have finished reading Not Afraid of the Fall, or are far enough to have a pretty good idea of what is going on 😉, please help out!Thanks in advance!!

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Matthew Isaac Sobin liked an update for Deus Hex Machina

Greetings, Hexers!

I’m plum in the middle of my cohort production cycle for Deus Hex Machina, about to head back into rewrites once I get approval from my editor. In our discussions the illustrious Matt Harry has suggested that I rename the book. I am quite fond of the title I chose for the novel, but I am too close to the subject, so Matt suggested I survey you loverly backers and see what you think.

Here is a link to a survey. Please hop on over and tell me which of the title options you prefer. The more responses I get the better, but I’m starting with you all because you backed the book and should more say than those that didn’t. At least that’s how I see it.

Thanks so much,

Amanda

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Matthew Isaac Sobin liked an update for The Bones of the Past

Time flies. It’s already been two months since The Bones of the Past officially launched. It’s been an insane ride filled with blog posts like this one on Epic Fantasy Writer; interviews like this one from Geeks Media and this one from Alicia Smock; not to mention some great reviews– The Hardcover Life, RobertBatten.net, and WordoftheNerdOnline stand out in particular, as well as the Midwestern Book Review and Roll Out Reviews.

My not-so-little book has already made it farther than I ever could have dreamed, and it’s still surreal to walk into a bookstore and see it on the shelf. More great things are still on the way too - Audible will be creating an audiobook version at some point in the (hopefully near) future, bookstores continue to welcome me in for signings (next one is Chapters South Keys 11:00 to 15:00 on August 19th!) and stores are stocking and, more importantly, RE-stocking my book!

With all this happening, I’m still finding time to work on the sequel and the final book of the trilogy, and I can promise that they’re going to be bigger and better than ever 😊

The most important thing in the meantime is to keep the momentum going, and for that I need reviews. Book reviews (even negative ones!) make a massive difference in book sales and they are the single most important factor in keeping this crazy ride going. The reviews don’t have to be long or complicated, just take a few minutes to write out what you liked (or didn’t) - a single sentence will do!

The goal is to get 100 reviews on Goodreads and Amazon (Barnes and Noble and Indigo are also good!). Reviews are starting to trickle in as people make it through the 500-odd pages, but there’s a long way to go to get to 100. So, if you’ve had a chance to finish Bones, please take a few minutes to write a quick review on any one of these sites:

Amazon http://amzn.to/2triUX4

Goodreads http://bit.ly/2rgbe6T

Indigo http://bit.ly/2shV0JE

Barnes and Noble http://bit.ly/2qwbVM0

If you feel particularly generous – please copy and paste your review to several of them, or even all four!

Thank you all yet again – I could not have done this without your support!

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Matthew Isaac Sobin liked an update for Women Like Us

Good morning and Happy Anniversary to Women Like Us, because today is one year since Pub Day!

Here’s a look back at me holding the book for the very first time. I still pick it up, leaf through it and find it amazing that it actually exists.

A lot happened around this little book in the past year. Here are a few of my favorite things.

It made it into the top 100 of its top sub-genre on Amazon (still pushing to get it into the top 10, though).

Some nice folks did interviews with me about the book. Here’s a couple, in case ya missed them.

http://www.theindieview.com/2017/05/11/indieview-with-jason-pomerance-author-of-women-like-us/

http://renderositymagazine.com/the-art-of-story-interview-with-author-jason-pomerance-cms-759

Also, the book made The Malibu Times!! This may not seem like a big deal, but we lived in Malibu for a short while, and First Point Malibu is still a favorite surf spot, so it just makes me smile. Here it is--

http://www.malibutimes.com/malibu_life/people/article_0dea1256-283f-11e6-b17a-8bda111c1653.html

We’ve given away many signed copies on Goodreads (a favorite thing to do...in fact one is going on now so go over to Goodreads so check it out) and given some away to our nearby free Local Libraries too.

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The push to the thousand mark in print and ebook sales is getting slowly closer. That was always a sort of goal on this book but, you know, if we go well into the thousands that’s good too. Don’t stop spreading the word, people! Sales happen when marketing happens but reviews are still so vitally important. If you’ve read and not reviewed, please leave a few words on Amazon (remember I still donate 10% of my royalties to the Beagle Freedom Project so helping with sales helps free more beagles). Remember you don’t have to say anything more than "Great book" (or "Crappy Book" works but we prefer great). Here’s the Amazon link--

https://www.amazon.com/Women-Like-Us-Jason-Pomerance-ebook/dp/B01IOZUBEW/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1501024483&sr=1-1

Meanwhile, the biggest recent news is that an audio version of the book is in production right now!! It’s being narrated by a wonderful voiceover actor, Yolande Clark. I’ve heard the first 15 minutes and it’s amazing. The audible version should be available around September. Stay tuned.

Finally, just to demonstrate how it’s not all sunshine and daffodils, in doing some research for this post I came across this really not nice review on some blog...ouch!!

https://www.reynoldsreviews.com/single-post/2016/12/18/Women-Like-Us

You gotta take the good with the bad, huh?

Thanks all for the support. Seriously. And Happy One Year Since Pub Day Women Like Us!

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