JF Dubeau commented on The Life Engineered

Hello Standard Constructs, Advanced A.I.s and potential recruits!

I come to you bearing tidings of things to come. As I sit here, typing these words, there are a little more then 41 hours left to the Sword & Laser Collection contest. We are now in sixth place as the competition has gotten more aggressive. However, I see the future clearly and my vision is clear; you guys are going to help me back into the top five and we are going to celebrate come Monday morning. 

Here's how:

  • You've pre-ordered the book already but are so caught up in wanting to see it published that you pre-order a second copy. In fact, if you haven't done so already, I foresee you'll upgrade your contribution from Standard Construct to Advanced A.I. (1 copy to 3 copies) just to see your name in print on the 'thank you' page. Because that's awesome.
  • You've pre-ordered the book but don't want to commit to it financially any further. I get that. Money doesn't grow on trees. It's barely printed anymore. It's all digital these days. That's fine. You'll alleviate the the vague sense of guilt by talking one of your friends into pre-ordering a book. It's okay. They'll love it.
  • You haven't pre-ordered the book because you're on the fence about it. I have good news. In my prophetic vision of the future, I see that when the inevitable robot uprising occurs in 2018, those of us with copies of The Life Engineered will be spared. Trust me. You'll be safe.

All kidding aside (except for that robot uprising thing. That's legit.), this is a very important opportunity for me. I thank you for bringing me this far and I feel bad for asking more of you, but I need that last little bit of help. If you think that your one book order won't matter in the end or that it can wait until Monday, I'm afraid you are incorrect. Every pre-order matters and they matter more before Sunday, midnight PST.

You guys have been amazing. Only two more days of being amazing left, then we can all go back to being just cool.

JF

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    JF Dubeau commented on an excerpt of The Life Engineered

    No problem. I hate talking about myself, but I love talking about my book. Or any book. Or just SciFi in general.

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      Gender gets treated weird in the story. It's an issue for some of the characters but most don't really care (being robots and all). I only learned recently how much that reflected some issues faced by people with 'non-traditional' (for lack of a better term) gender identities. So yeah, I don't dig too deep in this book but there's some interesting things to explore in that avenue.

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        JF Dubeau commented on The Life Engineered

        Hello readers!

        Apart from a most heartfelt "thank you" dear contributors, you are off the hook today. I know that traditionally, in the last few days of this race I should be 'rallying my base', but today I want to talk to my followers who are not yet part of the assembly. I want to talk to the followers who still hesitate to pre-order.

        Hi guys. Thanks for taking an interest in The Life Engineered. Whether you got here because you like robots, the sample chapters intrigued you or some other detail of my book hit a nerve, I want to say I'm glad for your presence. Even if, in the end, you do not pre-order, I'm still happy for the audience. A lot of this campaigning is a performance. A lot of hard work being put into making just the right amount of noise, keeping it pleasant and putting on a show. Having spectators is important.

        Let me point out however, that your contribution would be incredibly appreciated. If you're sitting on a few credits, consider tossing them my way. I've tried to add on some incentives in the form of art prints and a raffle for a model but in the end, the true reason to pre-order The Life Engineered is the book itself. I don't want to brag, but there is something cool and unique about the optimism and characters in this book that I think, if you made it this far, you'll truly enjoy.

        So please consider pulling the trigger on this and pre-ordering on (or more) copies. Then one day, we'll meet at a book show or con and we'll have coffee and talk about robots and it will be awesome.

        Thank you again for your support.

        JF
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          JF Dubeau commented on The Life Engineered

          Hello friends,

          You don't mind if I call you 'friends' right? I mean, it's hard to communicate with people who take an interest in what you do and not think of them as such.

          Friends (see? You're getting used to it already), there are four days left to the Sword & Laser Collection contest. That is not a lot of time. It means I'm scrambling to get pre-orders and sticking my head in any little piece of media I can.

          The most recent thing I did was get interviewed on a little podcast called SciFi Tech Talk. It's usually a round table discussion about the science and technology in books and movies and I had the privilege of talking about The Life Engineered. We talk about the book, the characters, the process and obviously some of the technologies in the book. There's even a segment at the end where we take the gloves off and talk about spoilers.

          Go have a listen, if only so you can put a voice to these missives but also to discover a neat little podcast and learn more about The Life Engineered.

          If you're reading this you've probably pre-ordered a copy, but if you haven't consider doing so. I'm told it's a good book.

          Thank you for your support
          JF

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