Hello Friends!

This picture was taking 15 years ago, in October of 2001. I had just arrived in the country, and I was full of hopes and dreams.

Unfortunately, soon I learned that my degree in journalism was looked at less because I had got it in a different country. I also learned that my broken English made me unqualified even for a retail job. So I started washing dishes, earning $7.5 an hour.

I am telling you this story because I want you to understand the impact that your support is having. Either if you pay $30, $9.99, $5 or if you bought the book with Inkshares credits, taking a chance on me has completely changed my life.

I am proud of myself, and I want to present to you a book that I will be proud to share. So I will be working hard with the Inkshares team to turn The Catcher’s Trap in the best version of itself.

The day The Doctor invites me for a ride in his Tardis, I will ask him to take me back to the day I took that picture, just so I can tell that kid, “hold on because it will be bumpy and hard, but it all will work out in the end.”

Love

Ricardo

Sorry to everyone for the updates 3 days in a row,  I usually prefer to give at least 3 days between updates so as not to flood your inboxes.  This is a short one, just a reminder to everyone who's been considering ordering but hasn't done so yet that today is the last day to place an order at $9.99.  Tomorrow the funding model changes go into effect which will increase the preorder price of each book ordered 10/30 and onward to $20.00.

This will be my last update until Tuesday, so thanks for your patience and I hope everyone enjoys their Samhain!