Greetings, adventurers! 

 HAPPY DOUBLE LORE WEEK! 

Before I get into today’s lore entry, I want to say a great big THANKS! We had an awesome weekend for preorders and jumped up by quite a few! Thanks to everyone who’s preordered so far, and everyone who’s been sharing the link. We’re just 6 preorders away from chapter 4. We’re so close! I’d love to give you something new to read for the coming weekend! 

Without any further ado, here’s your first dose of lore from Double Lore Week. 

THE PANZEROTTI GROUP 

The Panzerotti Group was founded nearly 75 years prior to the events of Mushroom and Anchovy, by Roberto Lombardi. Lombardi was heir to a family restaurant, but felt the call of adventure from far beyond the confines of his humble home. Lombardi tossed pizzas in the air and folded panzerotti, and he pantomimed the toppings as adventurers travelling. Yes. He really did that. 

One day, while working front of house in his family restaurant, he overheard a couple of travellers talking about finding a statuette in an abandoned church and getting rewarded for it. Roberto initiated a discussion with these two gentlemen, and the next day, he closed his shop for the first time in years and ventured out with these two men. 

The trio found the statuette and brought it back to the standing church—and they received a lofty reward. The three split it evenly and started talking about more adventures to come. Before they knew it, they had a waiting list worth of treasure to be found—and they needed more adventurers. They began to outsource, and Roberto found he also had to outsauce as his restaurant was being neglected. 

Roberto “Crust” Lombardi, Abramo “Marinara” Conti, and Salvatore “Mozzarella” Romano became the three founding fathers of the Panzerotti Group, which then grew and flourished into the entity you will read about in Mushroom and Anchovy. 

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See you on Friday, adventurers, with another Lore Day update and, hopefully, another numbers update. 

 May all your adventures be fraught with wonder and just enough peril to keep them interesting, 

 K. M. Cooper  

Greetings, adventurers! 

 The campaign has truly begun now. I’ve been reaching out to businesses, I’ve been passing out flyers and I’ve been working double time to get the word out about Mushroom and Anchovy. There’s even more to come this week, and I hope to have a big update on Friday! 

 We’re still holding down 5th place of the Launchpad contest! This is great news. The Nerdist Sci-Fi contest is finishing up this week, which will likely mean that more focus will be drawn to the Launchpad Contest after it’s over. This may mean other books jumping up in the leaderboards. 1st and 2nd place are pretty far off right now, with both surpassing 250 preorders, so if we want to get a guaranteed publish, we’ll have to see a real surge in numbers. 

 I’ve decided that Fridays are going to be “Lore Days”, in which I will introduce you to some aspect of the world of Mushroom and Anchovy. I’ll choose one part of the universe to describe to you—please let me know if there’s anything from the first three chapters that you want me to elaborate on! 

 That’s it for the first half of the week, folks. I hope to hear from some of you soon about Lore Day! 

 May all your adventures be fraught with wonder and just enough peril to keep them interesting, 

 K. M. Cooper

Greetings, adventurers! 

 We’ve climbed back up to the 5th place in the LaunchPad contest! We have a ways to go to get to fourth, so won’t you please consider throwing in a preorder to help nudge the book a bit further, if you haven’t already? Remember: sharing your link drives referrals, which earns you Inkshares credits! More books for you! 

 After a quiet week, I’m ready to return the the campaigning world. I’m currently awaiting some very nice flyers in the mail and plan on reaching out to all kinds of people over the coming weeks. Though I can’t make it to Animaritime this year, promotional materials will be handed out there, and there will also be an ad in the registration book. 

 I’ve decided to do a couple more Q&As—one of them will be through my Twitter account (https://twitter.com/nekonezume) this Wednesday (14th) night at 8:30 PM, and the other will be, again, on my Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/kcooperwriting/), the Wednesday after next (28th). The latter will include a live reading of chapter 2, as well. I’m trying to make up for all the time I lost last week while my household was a bit topsy-turvy. 

 That’s all for the moment! I’m hoping to have more to report on Friday. 

 May all your adventures be fraught with wonder and just enough peril to keep them interesting, 

 K. M. Cooper

Greetings, adventurers! 

 Last week was INCREDIBLE. We started off at just 13 preorders, and by the end of Saturday, we’d flipped that number around and made 31! We more than doubled within a span of about 24 hours. I’m so pleased! There’s a lot farther to go, of course, but we’re making a great pace.

 We’re really close to the 50 preorders mark, by the way, which means I can upload chapter 4 soon! 

 Are you looking for other ways to help get the word out? There are free ways that do an awful lot for me!

• re-tweet me on Twitter  
• share my link on social media 
• share a picture of the book cover on Instagram, along with the link (and please tag me so I can thank you personally!)  
• get a Street Team package from me! I will ship you some business cards and bookmarks—get in touch with me to make this happen. Please keep one of the bookmarks for yourself! 
  

 Also, did you know that if someone buys the book from your referral link, you’ll get credits to spend on Inkshares? There are lots of amazing books on this site to support, so that’s a great way to do it! (Or you could just… order another copy of Mushroom and Anchovy. If you want.) 

At the moment, we’re sitting with 32 preorders and 50 followers. That’s a big difference in numbers, so I’m just wondering: what can I do to get you a bit more interested in preordering a copy? What would grab you? More chapters, some art, a trailer? Better e-mails?! I’m all ears, folks: give me a shout. Also, since the first reading went so well, I’m going to make myself even more uncomfortable and do a reading of chapter 2 in a few weeks, if there’s interest in that. 

A quick thanks to everyone taking this journey with me so far. There’s still a long way to go, but this is a marathon, not a race--I’m in it for the long haul!

May all your adventures be fraught with wonder and just enough peril to keep them interesting,

K. M. Cooper

Hi Adventurers! 

 Sorry for the inconvenience here, but when I started my pre-order campaign, I wasn’t aware I had to enter a contest while the story was still in draft format. Unfortunately, this would have led to me missing out on several preorders, and risking the story not reaching its complete goal. As a result, I had to end the campaign. Anyone who has preordered has been refunded entirely. Please consider preordering again.

 The good news is that I just re-started it! I was advised that doing this will raise my chances of meeting the 750 goal. This also gives me the chance to refine my dialogue with the book so that people seeing it for the first time will be more drawn to it.

I really do apologize for the inconvenience and hope you’ll give me a second chance to do this right!  This will be the only time this happens, I assure you--and it’s great that I caught it so early on.