Greetings Destiny-followers,

Events are proceeding apace in the world of Destiny Imperfect. For those of you who want an idea of where the story is going, I’ve uploaded a revised chapter 1 as well as all of chapter 2. You can find the revision and update here. As always comments on the content etc. are more than welcome. If you have yet to board the Destiny train, then follow this link to pre-order!

And in further news, Destiny’s stable mate, Sync City, now has a publication date. For those of you with a romantic bent, this is good news, for that date is February 1st - just in time for Valentine’s Day! If you want to be the proud owner of a 1st Edition copy of Sync City, then head over to here and pre-order.

If you have any questions on either Destiny Imperfect or Sync City, feel free to drop me a line or direct message me via Inkshares.

Have a great day!

Cheers,

Peter

Dear Lucky Readers,

I’ve received a few questions about the status of Lucky recently, so I wanted to make sure everyone understands the "next steps" for this novel.

Firstly, I want to assure everyone that YES you will still receive your copy of this novel, once publication is complete. Since this is a crowd-funded project, production does not start until the funding period is over. (It’s like paying in advance for your subscription to National Geographic in that you send them the money, then in a month you get a new magazine.) 

So now we’re in the production phase of this process. This means that the first draft of the manuscript is currently being edited and rewritten. I sent the first seven chapters to my amazing Madam Editor Jessica this week, so content editing is well underway. After that, we will do a pass of line editing (the fancy grammar and spelling check). Then the manuscript will go to the Quill team for formatting, setting, and printing. All of this could take several months. My current estimation is that I will finish edits and rewrites by the end of November. From there, we will enter the production queue at Quill. My hope is that we will see production sometime in early 2017. 

I know this is all general information, but right now this is the best I have. I want to thank you all for your patience with, generosity to and faith in this project. I truly feel that I am the most blessed of all authors to have such supportive readers as all of you.

Stay tuned and happy reading!

Webster

The Weefolk refers to the collective races of the Courtless people’s that live in the realm of Tír na nÓg. They live far and wide and can be found in cities, forests, mountains, and rivers throughout the realm. A great majority of the Weefolk make their homes within the safety of the Greatwood Forest. The Weefolk have and affinity for the natural world largely because a great portion of the nomadic peopleś are elemental in nature, living in trees, rivers, and rocky caverns. They are peaceful peopleś who keep to themselves and rarely involved themselves in the political or religious realms of the Fae and Mankind. As they are part of the Courtless races of Tír na nÓg those that make their home in the Greatwood Forest are guarded by the Kentaros. Those who live outside of the Greatwood are protected by the sacred laws of the Goddess, however, due to their valuable elemental essence, many who live beyond the Greatwood are at greater risk of being poached. TheWeefolk are countless in number largely in part to their reclusive nature. They come in many shapes and sizes, each with a magical gift that harnesses elemental magic. Some of the more well known Weefolk are:

• Faunus
• Kelpie
• Pixie
• Trow
• Dryads
• Water Nymphs
• Brownies
• Puca
• Many More

These are but a few of the many mysterious and magical Weefolk that one can see while traversing the lands of Tír na nÓg.

Hello Intrpid followers:

 I have noticed that Intrepid has been building interest among followers in the last few days. First off, thanks for your interest and support. I have big hopes for this project, and I am glad that it is generating fans already. Second, I am not intending to run a campaign on this project quite yet... but, I am currently hosting this story as a series on Channillo.com. 

http://bit.ly/IntrepidSeries

Channillo is a subscription service starting as low as $5/mo that hosts a myriad of writing projects, running them as series. I currently have six chapters up, and intend to post a new chapter every1-2 weeks. Please join Channillo, and help support authors like me to build their fan base for their art and projects.

Thanks again!

-Lebs

Friends

Just a quick update to announce the winner of this week.

But first, let’s talk about the campaign. Thanks to your support Bad Medicine is still holding second place in the contest with 107 readers. That is great news but no reason to relax. Contests are unpredictable until the last minute, and you may or may not know that I lost a Nerdist contest by 1 book, I repeat 1 book!!

So I still need your support. Please pre-order, share the love, ask your family and friends to get a copy of this funny and scary book.

And now the big news.

The queen joining the colorful cast of Bad Medicine: Slay it Queen is Miss Booby Von Trapp (AKA Liz Trond)

Booby Von Trapp is a comedy queen with a huge social media following of which she is annoyingly proud!

Congratulations Liz!

Have a great weekend

"We are all born naked, the rest is drag"

Dear friends and followers,

The one thing I’ve learned about deadlines is that they are always closer than they appear. Looking at my calendar, it feels as though all of my time for the rest of the year has been claimed and eaten up by this, that, or the other. Are we on track for the finish and the magical 750? You’ve been generous and you’ve gotten me this far already, but the future is a mystery. I can only hope and pray that any efforts made now will bear fruit in time.

It often feels like an impossibility, but I believe in miracles. And speaking of impossibilities, here’s a look at another one of the characters you’ll meet in "Murder at the Veterans’ Club": Mortimer Wolfe.

It’s Thanksgiving weekend for those of us in Canada, and I plan to be stuffing myself with turkey. I will be remembering in gratitude the support I’ve been given so far. And until we meet again: have fun, and keep reading.

Underdog: 1. One that is expected to lose a contest. 2. One that is at a disadvantage. - American Heritage® Dictionary

Referral giveaway update time, just as a reminder that it is still going on.

To sum up for those of you who haven’t read about it a previous update(about a month or so I think):  if Exile, Magus reaches funded status, then I will go through the list of those who have referred the book.  Anyone who has also ordered at least 1 copy of Magus themselves(ebook or physical) will have 3 added to their effective total.

The 10 people with the highest  effective totals will then be contacted to claim an item from the giveaway pool in order from highest to lowest referrals.  In the case of a tie the person who ordered their copy of Magus first will be chosen.  Currently I’m in the lead of referrals, but since I’m obviously not eligible that doesn’t matter.  First place is only ahead by 1 referral, and 2nd place is something like a 20 way tie last I checked, so it would be easy for anyone to move up the ranks as it were.

Any items in the giveaway pool after the referral portion is decided will then move to a giveaway pool just for those of you who were kind enough to order the book.  As I’m trying to add as many items for giveaway as I can, I’m not sure how many items will be left over.  If Magus funds I’ll divide everyone who has ordered up as evenly as possible chronologically and roll off(because I love rolling dice) for the remaining prizes.  So, for example, if we only hit 250 orders and there were 10 items left over from the referral giveaway, then there would be 10 lists of 25 orders each which I would roll on.

The items currently available for giveaway are:  

• 1 signed copy of Oliver Tooley’s "Children of the Wise Oak" (2 available)
  
• 1 signed print of the Exile, Magus cover art (Calden family crest) by Rachel Donne (3 available)
• 1 signed print of the title art for Part 4 - Llanchland (Buscidia vs. the Cog Monster) by Lizzy Perez (3 available)
• 1 signed print of the title art for Part 11 - Ansvari (Talari calling wind spirits) by Lho Brockhoff (3 will be available, currently on order awaiting shipment from artist)
• up to 10 wild cards; this is intended as a you name something that we can both agree on.  Some acceptable examples of the top of my head are:  you get to name a river, lake, mountain range, town/city, or other such location within the world of Exile, Magus;  I write a piece of short fiction for you;  I design a one-shot adventure for a tabletop RPG for you.  Really though, anything you can name that I’m reasonably capable of doing would be acceptable in this category.

So as it currently stands there are 21 items available which means 11 would be left over after the referral contest.  I’m hoping to scrape together enough money to fund at least 1 more piece of art before this campaign is over, and since I make it a point to get 3 signed prints with each commission that would up the total pool to 24.

As a reminder though, Magus does need to fund before these giveaways happen.  As much as I wish I could just do giveaways without regards to funding status, I can’t for practical reasons.  Put simply, I plan to get this book out, and while I really do hope this can be done through Inkshares, if it can’t then I’ll likely be going the self-publishing route.  If I go the self-publishing route I’ll like have to crowdfund at least a portion of that, and I’ll need the items currently available as part of any crowdfunding effort since my budget couldn’t really support giving them away twice.

The art mentioned above is all viewable on my page, but I’ll also be posting it below.  You can check out a bit about "Children of the Wise Oak" on its Amazon page here.

Thanks to everyone for your time and support!  Enjoy your weekend, and the art to follow!

Calden Family Crest

Buscidia vs. the Cog Monster

Talari calling wind spirits

Hello dear readers,

A lot has been going on and that’s kind of why I’ve been rather discreet in my communications. Also, I bet with three contests currently vying for attention, you get enough emails already. So what could possibly have taken up so much of my time?

Let’s start with how I had to do revisions to the manuscript for A God in the Shed. I had already handed it in but after a meeting at WeedRoad Pictures in L.A. a few weeks ago, several ideas to further improve the story demanded to be put to the page.

WeedRoad Pictures? What the hell is that? Well, that’s the second bit of paralyzing news. A God in the Shed has been optioned by Skydance Productions through the help of Akiva Goldsman from WeedRoad (props to Greg Lessans and Alexandra Neil for their part. Amazing people). I can’t do this news justice but you can read the article by The Tracking Board if you want to know more.

 So what does this mean? The short answer? I don’t know! It doesn’t mean that A God in the Shed is going to be a television show but rather that there are efforts behind making that happen. Needless to say that the book is in the hands of some incredibly talented and hard working people. I’m still reeling from the news and gathering the details myself, but as far as excuses for my silence, I think that’s the best I can do right now.

What’s next?

• I think it’s obvious that this has delayed my plans and promises for Arch-Android (Give it a follow why don’t you?), the sequel to The Life Engineered. I’m still a few chapters short of a full draft but that should be taken care of before the end of November. I’m giving myself some room to work with this time so I can keep that prediction.
  

• I’m also finishing another manuscript for The Ed Greenwood Group.

• Obviously, the sequel to A God in the Shed, currently titled ‘CoudFire’ is going to be the first thing I work on after I’ve cleared these other projects. CloudFire is half written already, but it’s going to undergo some serious changes. Let’s just say that I’ve got a good skeleton to work on but I have to tear away the flesh and start that part anew.

• I have some more good news coming up. Other cool opportunities and some new projects I want to toss out into the world.
  

Let me finish this with a heartfelt ‘thank you’ to Adam Gomolin and Brooklyn Weaver who worked like tireless maniacs to make this happen, along with the rest of the Inkshares crew for their support and of course, you guys, the readers, without whom none of this would be possible.

On to the next step!

JF