Hi all,

 Daughter of the Mara is closing in on 90 pre-orders! Woot! Thank you all for your support and please continue to share this book with anyone who is interested in fantasy stories, nightmares, and strong female characters.

 I love this community and am grateful to Inkshares for the ability to share my work with a group of writers and readers who love fantasy as much as I do. While I may never be as awesome at crowd funding as some of my fellow authors, I’ve come to embrace Inkshares more as place where I can give my work a broader audience than as place to get published. In this vein, I am going to spend less time this month drumming up pre-orders and more time actually writing. It has been months since I’ve touched the second book in the Mara Chronicles, Heir to the Dreamscape, and I am also working on a world building document, which I’ve been calling the Mara Compendium, so I am going to take some time to focus on those. Also, if you haven’t already, please check out the Facebook page for Daughter of the Mara where I will be posting updates on this work as well as interesting items related to the origin of the book. I am also currently updating my website and I will update you all when that process is complete.

 Happy Monday!

Alex