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You know you’re in my thoughts and I hope that the Inkshares team reads this and is able to communicate more with you about your book and how long it might take for them to get to it. And also the benefits of Quill vs self publishing - there is their connection to various producers that might put your book in front of entertainment industry eyeballs.

Inkshares was publishing at least one Quill book a month, though I don’t know of any coming out after this month’s Sync City. Still, one a month and a backlog of 39ish books is quite a wait.
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    Sorry to hear about your cancer Tahani. My thoughts are totally with you! I can’t weigh in on your question, because I think that is a decision you have to make, but I wanted to send you my thoughts! I hope you conquer this illness. 
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      Okay. As some of you know, I’m currently battling cancer. While my treatments are going as well as can be expected and I’m optimistic, there are obviously still concerns. And, while looking at a calendar listing dates of Quill funding, MS requests, Quill publication dates, etc... I realize that there’s a very real chance I won’t be alive to see my book’s publication through Quill. I know I only reached funding 4 months ago, but I haven’t even been asked for my manuscript yet, and who knows how far down in the queue I am. So I guess I just want to be pragmatic and look at the options.

      In my case, what are the benefits to having my husband possibly publish through Quill after my death instead of self-publishing myself beforehand? As far as I can tell, we are in charge of our own marketing, cover design, and editing process in either case, right? I realize that Inkshares offers copy-editing for Quill publications, but I already paid to have The Last Faoii professionally edited months ago. On top of that, the profits for the first 250 sold copies in Quill go completely to production, which is not the case in self-publishing.

      The biggest difference I can think of is that with Quill I can at least promise my readers signed copies-- except I can’t even promise that if the worst comes to pass before my turn in the queue.  (Luckily, I already made signed bookplates for my readers as a contingency plan, so my warriors will still walk away with something worthwhile at the end of it all-- but I don’t see why I can’t send those out in either scenario). Am I missing something? What are the benefits of publishing through Quill?
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      Wow, faoii! 

      I didn’t expect such an influx of advice and opinions on the cover/title debate so quickly. I’m trying to go through and respond to each individual response as I can, but there are a lot of amazing ideas flying. As such, I’m inviting all of you to join the conversation about it on The Last Faoii’s (or whatever it’s about to be) facebook page by clicking here. This way you can see what others say, I can get a general idea of the overall opinion, and you can see updates as they happen so I don’t flood your inbox with these neat little inkshares updates. Just an option if you prefer. 

      That’s it, faoii. Dismissed. 

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        Greetings, faoii! 

        Not one to sit idle while our army’s story goes untold, I have continued my various conversations with professional authors around the country while I wait for Inkshares’ signal that we’re ready to proceed. The most common bit of advice from professionals? To change the name of The Last Faoii to something else!  Is that not surprising? Many authors thought that people wouldn’t be intrigued to read a book whose name they can’t even pronounce at a glance, which isn’t something I’d thought about before. 

        So, since we’re just sitting at the barracks for now, anyway: What do you think, my warriors? Would you prefer a change from The Last Faoii to Blade Blessed? And would you prefer different artwork for the cover? Here’s the cover we’ve been using since our campaign’s beginning, and next to it is a completely different (definitely not complete) cover that I whipped up quickly just to see what it might look like. I’m also considering hiring a cover artist to make something even grander (since we will not be able to utilize Inkshares’ cover artists), but I don’t know if I prefer the simplistic blade-on-black design or one featuring Faoii-Kaiya. Opinions, faoii?



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