The Nerdist video-game contest has officially entered its closing stages. With only 11 days to go, now is the time to get your pre-orders in both for SQUIDS IN and any of the other awesome books in the competition. 

Experience has shown that the final few weeks of an Inkshares contest can produce massive fluctuations on the leaderboard. I just hope that SQUIDS IN, which is currently in 4th place, will either maintain this position and be the first of the losers or see a massive run of orders over the next few days and take the fight to those infront!

SQUIDS IN was mentioned on this weeks WriteBrain podcast along with a few other books from the top ten so go check out what JF Dubeau and Mr. Murloc have to say about the concept and my campaign page (Note: Yes I know Octopuses and Squids are different types of Cephalopods. Is just that octopuses are cooler but "Squids In" sounds like "Quids In" which is a slang British term for winning a lot of money. Obviously this pun doesn’t translate very well.

I am also happy to say that the first raffle winner Thomas J. Arnold has shared a photo of his prize octopus playing Fallout.

I know that these Inkshares contests get a lot of visibility on the site and that frankly disrupts the normal operation of the platform for those of you who are trying to fund a different type of book at the same time. Well I just wanted to highlight three books that are funding right now and do not appear in the Nerdist contest for the simple fact that they are great books.

Mission 51 by Ferd Crotte - https://www.inkshares.com/books/mission-51

Murder at the Veterans Club by Christopher Huang - https://www.inkshares.com/books/murder-at-the-veterans-club

I Am Waltz by Matthew D. Dho - https://www.inkshares.com/books/i-am-waltz

I think that is all for now. If I think of anything else, I’ll be sure to send you a note about it.

Matthew