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Hey authors,

Although we haven’t used it ourselves yet, I wanted to pass along a potentially helpful resource/tool: www.findmyaudience.com. The CEO reached out a few days ago and it struck a chord. If anyone tries it out, I’d love to hear how helpful it is for you in case there’s integration potential down the line. 

The founders describe it as a "micro-marketing app that serves as a lightweight lead generation tool for authors". They send daily or weekly emails with leads on social, publishing trends, and posts authors might want to read.

Tutorial material: http://corporate.findmyaudience.com/resources
FAQ: http://corporate.findmyaudience.com/faq
Blog posts: http://blog.findmyaudience.com/

Hope it’s useful!

cc: @Thad Woodman @Angela Melamud @Elena Stofle @JF Dubeau @Tal M. Klein @Jamison Stone @Zachary Tyler Linville @Dave Barrett @Rick Heinz @Brian Guthrie @Ricardo Henriquez @Richard Saunders @Patrick Edwards and all y’all other first adopters!
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    Cem Bilici sent an update for Ward of the South

    Howdy folks.

    Things ain’t been progressing quite how I’d like in the campaign, but them’s the breaks. I thought I’d throw this out there to sweeten the deal, and just so everyone knows:

    Ward of the South is a finished novel.

    And by that I mean that it’s been completed in draft form and self edited by me a few times now. Five and a bit times to be exact. Currently it clocks in at 110k words, though will probably be a might less once this sixth and final pass through is done. Originally it was sittin’ around 118k.

    BUT

    I’m waitin’ to see the outcome of this campaign. If I have the chance to have it edited fully by getting 750+ orders I will put off polishin’ the final forty chapters.
    If I hit 250-749 pre-orders, then I will complete my final polish and have it copyedited.

    If neither happens, well I will be forkin’ out to get it done myself!

    One way or another this will be happenin’, so never fear.

    Now, havin’ said that, there is a finished draft that nobodies readin’ that y’all can peruse if you so wish! How about that, huh? So if that tickles your taste buds, holler out in a direct message to me, tell me your poison (file format) and where to send it!

    If’n you’re thinkin’ this sounds like snake oil, well it ain’t! But there is a catch. I’ll only be sendin’ it to those who have pre-ordered. Fair’s fair and a deals a deal. Put it right there, pardner!

    See you you ’round like a wagon wheel.

    P.S: If’n you’re wonderin’ why I’m talkin’ like a B grade movie cowboy... I got no idea. Seemed a good idea at the time.

    DANCE VARMINTS!
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      Cem Bilici liked the forum thread, Gollancz writers festival
      It was a great day! A bit of a fleeting visit to London for me, as I only attended the morning Writers Day session, but well worth the time.

      The morning started out with a moderated discussion between Tom Lloyd, Ben Aaronovitch and Joanne Harris. They discussed the idea of expanded universes, in particular what it’s like to write in the EU of a preexisting property, and also what they think about the concept of their being a true ’canon’ to a story. Joanne Harris had a particularly interesting take on this, as she deals a lot with Norse mythology. Amusingly, she described the ’original’ written versions of this mythology as Christian fanfic!

      Next, we heard from a literary agent named Juliet Mushens. She gave us a fascinating insight into what the role of an agent is, what an author can expect from an agent and so on. She stressed the importance of drafting, saying that you should expect to do many drafts before querying an agent, but that a submission is quite straight forward: a one-page cover letter, two-page synopsis and the first three chapters of your book. She also said not to worry about submitting to multiple agents, as they expect you will contact many agents at the same time. Also, if you’re submitting a book that’s part of a trilogy, that’s okay; she expects most SF&F books to be part of a series. She did stress however that if you’re submitting part of a series, the publisher will want to have confidence that you know where the series is going.

      Last, we did ’author speed dating’. We got 20 minutes per table of attendees (approx 4 people for table) with 4 of the authors in attendance. I got to speak to Alex Lamb, Joanne Harris, Ben Aaronovitch and Edward Cox. We spent a lot of this time discussing each authors approach to getting an agent, what they thought about writing outside of their own culture and how to combat writers block.

      After these chats, there was plenty of time to get books signed. I bought a few books by authors I hadn’t tried so far, including Edward Cox’s The Relic Guild. Edward was so lovely and supportive! He asked me to let him know how the Inkshares fantasy contest was going from time to time.

      It was great to meet and speak to so many authors - including the many dozens of attendees, most of whom were mid-way through writing fantasy books of their own. I also came away with a nice ’swag bag’ of book samplers and free Audible audiobooks!
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