Thanks so much to you early followers. I really appreciate your support.
Hopefully you've had the opportunity to read through the first two chapters posted here. As Shadow Incandescent attracts more readers and pre-orders, I will release more chapters for you to read. Since this book served as my MFA Thesis, it's already completed and waiting to be shared.
Since I earned my MFA two years ago, I have been editing and revising (and editing and revising) Shadow, as well as working on a sequel. I'm 11,000 words into that project already, picking up where Shadow leaves off, though it's told from the point of view of a different character (whom I can't reveal yet, because it would spoil Shadow).
I'm excited for you to continue following Thom as he navigates the politics of qualifying for an Admin position, keeping his friendship with trouble-maker Geoff, meeting Minister Trask's expectations, and wooing Dee. Near the middle of the book, Thom, Geoff, and Scott make a paradigm-shifting discovery and the stakes quickly become life and death.
If you haven't yet, please share this page with your friends and followers on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, etc... As I used to tell my high school students, it takes all kinds to make a world, and I believe there are more than 1000 people that would enjoy reading this book. Unfortunately, I don't know all of them. But, you just might!!
Greetings my Boulderoleros!
And then there comes the day. The day when the sun shines and you see something beautiful.
Here it is. The official front cover of Asteroid Made of Dragons. The entire team at Inkshares and Girl Friday Production and our designer David Drummond really knocked it out of the park. Tom and Veronica from Sword & Laser were also instrumental in guiding the style of this and I can't thank them enough. If it weren't for all these skilled, talented, kind people - the cover would have probably come out looking something more like this:
How do I feel?
Proud and terrified. This cover is marketable and slick and makes me feel very, very grown up. Also it kind of looks like a Beholder.
I wanted you guys to be the first to see - as you're the ones that made it happen. I'll do an 'official' reveal on my site in the next day or so, but for now GAZE DEEPLY INTO THE ABYSS.
Thanks for the support for Dianno's Wolves. While the funding goal looks very unlikely to be met this time, with only 14 days to go, I will be allocating more time to this project in future and it will be back, with a standalone website, more sample chapters and a much greater promotional effort! Thanks again for your support!
Regards,
James