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Thad Woodman liked an update for The Tulip Factory

Current mood: EXCITED!! Working on some small and obvious edits with fresh eyes.  It's been an awesome week for preorders and I cannot thank you ALL enough for helping me make this happen.  I promise you, the middle and end of this book will NOT disappoint.  I'm no stranger to wishful thinking, the need for a time machine and starting over. Keep sharing with friends, family, coworkers and strangers! XOXO

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    Thad Woodman liked an update for An Unattractive Vampire

    It's fourth of July weekend. More importantly, it's CONvergence week! Yes, I will once again return to my old stomping grounds of Minneapolis and St. Paul (mostly Minneapolis, stomping is frowned upon in St. Paul, especially after nine p.m.) in order to attend the Convergence Science Fiction and Fantasy convention in Bloomington, Minnesota.

    And lest you think I'm going empty handed...

    That's right con goers, prepare to find one of these bad boys on counter tops, taped to walls, and shoved under the doors of your convention hotel room, because I ordered a lot of them and my apartment isn't that big.

    I won't just be going person to person promoting my book, however. I'll also be be promoting my book to groups of persons, a practice known in convention parlance as "paneling." I will be discussing  "Building Worlds for Fiction" on Friday at 3:30 and finding ways to write jokes into the malevolent future societies that await us in the "Dystopia in Humor/Humor in Dystopia panel at 9:30 Sunday morning. Because nothing says comedy, like an AM panel on a convention weekend. There will also be stacks of postcards for all who attend.

    And don't miss my fellow writers and performers from Our Fair City as they perform our live radioplay "The Archibald Funnypants Variety Hour" at 4 PM on the mainstage before the closing ceremonies. Music! Molepeople! Live foley! You might even see me onstage, very briefly.

    It's going to be a big weekend. So if you or anyone you know or might have known or will might have known in an alternate timeline that was currently erased from existence are in Minneapolis this weekend, swing by CONvergence and say hi. Who knows, there could even be a postcard in it for you.

    For more information about CONvergence visit http://www.convergence-con.org/

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      Thad Woodman liked an update for The Music Anthology

      Hey Music / Lit lovers 

      Thanks again for your support. We’re one-third through the campaign for our Music anthology and it’s probably time to crank things up a bit. 

      So let's start with the exciting addition of some limited edition bonus items. 

      With every individual / Music Lover pre-order you have a chance to win any of the following: 

      • 1 of 20 Little Fiction “fuck yeah short stories” tote bags (seen here) 

      • 1 of 50 sets of Little Fiction cover art postcards based (set of 8) 

      • 1 of 20 signed Music anthology posters 

      • 1 of 20 sets of Music anthology stickers (set of 5) 

      And with every multiple / Die Hard pre-order, you’ll be eligible to win: 

      • 1 of 10 anthology-inspired mix tapes (on an actual tape. Tape player / Walkman not included. But we’ll gladly throw in a download link.) 

      For those who have already pre-ordered, consider yourself eligible. And please, help us spread the word. The only way to get your book is if we hit our pre-order goal and we need your continued help to make that happen. 

      Lastly, but certainly not least (leastly?), we’ve posted an excerpt from Megan Stielstra’s amazingly fantastic (and Jane's Addiction-fueled) essay, “Stop Reading and Listen.” 

      The mighty Roxane Gay says of Megan’s writing, “Stielstra is a masterful essayist.” And we couldn’t agree more. That’s why we think you stop reading this and start reading that. 

      So on that note, thanks again. 

      Talk soon, 

      Troy + Amanda  

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        Thad Woodman liked an update for Ageless

        Hello everyone!!

        1st - WELCOME to all the new followers and book owners!  Thank you so much!  I couldn't do this without you!

        2nd- Last week I got a new and improved Author's Questionnaire, and it is challenging!  I am working hard on getting it ready to send back to the powers that be.

        3rd- I have also been reworking the manuscript a bit to get it ready to turn over.  It's exciting!

        4th- And LAST,  I am traveling around seeing this beautiful country!  Be on the look out for some video updates.

        Thanks again!  Keep spreading the word! 

        Twitter: @paulinmansc

        Instagram: @paulinmansc

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          July Backers Update: Herb: Mastering the Art of Cooking with Cannabis 

          Hello Backers! 

          Wow, July already! That's OK, because it brings the book launch another month closer. I've got great news: yesterday, we finished the final review of the book's content. It's now in the hands of the copy editor. 

          All of the photos, recipes and text have been delivered. Thanks to the tireless work of the team at Girl Friday Productions, Inkshares, and of course our star chefs and photographer, we're set to deliver HERB: Mastering the Art of Cooking with Cannabis on schedule! 

          If I wasn't writing this from New Zealand (hurry up Kiwis, make cannabis legal!) I'd be able to celebrate with a few of these... Triple Bomb Brownies 


          While you wait, we're partway through publishing a video series on Ayahuasca, so check out our Backers Video page at http://www.thestonerscookbook.com/backer_videos.php to learn more about this hallucinogenic shamanic drug, and don't forget to visit The Stoner's Cookbook Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/TheStonersCookbook for a few laughs. 

          Thanks again backers, and I'll be back in August! 

          Lucas Young

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            Thad Woodman liked an update for Asteroid Made of Dragons

            Updatery in  your facery!

            I am a writer. This is some clever wordplay. History will vindicate me.

            Just a 'due dilligence' sort of update. Still chugging away at the manuscript, I'm hitting the half-way mark this weekend in between fireworks, burgers, and debauchery. [Ahem - America.] I'm going to reward myself with a large glass of chocolate milk and the weirdest possible scene that will irrevocably destroy the very novel I'm trying to write. I'll keep it short though - 500 words tops.

            I did hit an important personal milestone in the manuscript, I drew a map of Corinth.

            I know it doesn't seem like much, but that little thumbnail rocked me back on my heels a bit. In the vast tangle of the stories I tell, Corinth and the country of Gilead itself feature most prominently. They are symbols for me - heroism, the golden age that is lost, the naive hope I felt as a child when I read the tales of Arthur in the pages of King, White, and Mallory.  But more than that -- in a way I fumble to express - it's the fulcrum, the place where my world turns. Like a time traveler, I've seen this place in the future, I have walked its halls before in the moonbeam past. I, myself, have lead the armies of darkness to its walls.

            So it's strange to arrive here again, on the back of a sky-cycle with Xenon and Mercury. And drawing the map, my silly little scribble made the city real again - made it real NOW in this moment that my heroes and villains will meet in its cobblestone streets. 

            Eesh - this got weird and soppy? Sorry, folks - this is the hedge wizard you hired. Sometimes you pull the rabbit out of the hat for the crowd and sometimes the rabbit pulls you into the hat.

            Here's a little snippet, the first sight of Corinth for you. As always - tell me what you think! Here on Inkshares, or come yell at me on twitter @gderekadams

            The sky-cycle cut through the clouds and Xenon laughed as a sudden updraft blew the hem of her half-cloak right over her head. She pulled the fabric free with one hand while keeping her other hand steady on the throttle. Mercury grabbed the flapping cloak’s edge and jammed it down into the edge of her piloting sister’s belt - it had become a tediously common occurrence during their days of flight. They would be humming along, magenta light spooling out behind them, goblin eyes wide at the vast and beautiful landscape beneath them, then WHOP - faceful of cloak. Xenon snickered as her younger sister grumbled - her cloak was perfect for travel and investigating clammy ruins or burning sands - but it patently was not intended for the air speeds that Tobio could reach.
            “Take off the cloak!” Mercury spat in her ear.

            “Nope!” Xenon laughed, and straightened her goggles. Something about the way it flapped against her shoulders just felt proper and just -- plus the wind’s bite and the high altitude made the skies a fierce torrent of cold.

            The last silver-white vestiges of the cloud bank parted and the city of Corinth lay before them, like a child’s plaything. The surrounding grassland green, broken occasionally by outcroppings of sheer granite and thin copse of oak and elm, smashed up against the graystone walls of the city like a verdant wave. Xenon took a long breath of cold fall air and wished she could make her eyes go wider. The city walls were vast slabs of granite, surely quarried from the surrounding countryside - but each slab showed a hundred scars. Scorch marks, cracks wide enough for a goblin to stick his hand in, a pockmarked graveyard of abandoned steel rusting away in the walls, arrowheads, lances, halberds, and glaives - all flung by the champions of evil come to lay siege to the crown city of Gilead. Time itself seemed to be the greatest beast savaging the high walls, the simple erosion of rain and sun had widened the gaps between slabs to the point where industrious soldiers were working know to construct wooden palisades and gates in between the dwindling granite. Corinth was a city that had known the hammer and the breaking of stones, and every shattered line of building or errant cobblestone street carried the memory of the days when darkness had beaten down her defenders and made vicious festival in the home of the righteous.

            And yet the sun shone down on Gilead’s capitol as if it could not remember Night. From every tower, every high place, the brave blue flags flew and snapped in the wind. Blue for the sky, where the priests of the Nameless God teach that all valor is recognized. A white circle, for the will of the heart that cannot be broken. Inside the circle, three blue swords crossed. Rage, fear, despair -- all bound by Faith. Xenon turned the sky-cycle into a slow banking arc across the northern face of the city, information running through her head. Gilead had never been her speciality, but there were things that any scholar worth their salt knew by heart. The small country, really a city-state with allied territories across a small corner of the continent of Eridia had managed to involve itself in far more than its share of history. The Dragoon War. The MNO Incident. The Sandwich Rebellion, where Carroway broke free of the domination of the dwarven empire of Sypria. The Swords of the Faith, found in every major conflict for hundreds of years. Always on the side of Good. The goblin’s academian brain quivered at this last thought, a shallow mealy-mouth platitude. It was the sort of statement put in children’s history texts, not the thing a true researcher would accept at face value. Tobio flew lower across the spine of the city and she shrugged off her quibble. Of course it’s hard to assign such gross qualifiers as ‘Good’ and ‘Evil’ to historic events - but I think it’s a reasonably safe approximation to assign to the Red Wizard and his armies. The Knights of Gilead have always answered the call of any other country in peril, and nearly lost their own country many times. This is the place where I’ll find help with SHAME.  
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