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 Wednesday reading went well, despite some technical/parental? hiccups. You can watch the reading right here! I’ll do a reading of chapter 3 in a few more weeks--around mid-July. After some feedback, I’m going to try and keep the live readings to a shorter amount of time, keeping it just to the reading.

I announced my backer contest on the live stream on Wednesday night as well. Here are the rules!

1. Preorder the book! 
2. Like and share the pinned post on my Facebook page (NOTE: make sure the share is public so I can see it!) 
3. Those three things are the pre-requisites for the contest. You can earn bonus entries, however... 
4. Share a picture of the book’s cover OR the business cards on Instagram  (1 entry each)
5. Tweet a link to the book using the hashtag #MushAnch (1 entry) 
6. Being a Patron on my Patreon account gives you 1 entry per dollar value of your monthly contribution (i.e. $5 month = 5 entries) 
7. Referring a friend who preorders the book will get you 10 entries! Please get them to contact me after they have preordered. This is the only one you can do multiple times. If you refer 3 friends who preorder the book as well, you’ll get 30 bonus entries! 
8. Requesting a "street team" package and posting pictures of successful promotional material placement will get you 5 entries. 

The prize? A $50 Amazon egift card (in YOUR CURRENCY). This contest will be going on until July 31st. 

The Nerdist contest is officially over, so I imagine people will be looking to the LaunchPad contest now. This would be a great time to preorder and help Mushroom and Anchovy move up the contest ladder. We’ve dropped down to 6th place as another contender has swooped in to 5th! We still have several months of the contest left, however, so it’s still anyone’s game. I will continue to keep a close eye.

Speaking of the Nerdist contest, congrats to everyone in the Sci-Fi contest! Special congrats to backer and author of Curio Citizen Katherine Forrister, who got 2nd place! As you know, I was really pulling for her, so I’m so happy for her that she got in the top three! I can’t wait to read Curio Citizen!

I changed the name of the backer categories to something a little more in-universe: Adventurers are ebook tier, Agents are print book tier, and Commander is the 3-copy super backer name-in-the-back-of-the-book tier. 

I know this is Lore Day but I’ve already inundated you with so much today that I don’t want to hold your attention too much longer! I’ll move it to Monday instead so you can get a DOUBLE LORE WEEK next week, and I’ll try to keep the updates to a minimum. Unless something awesome happens.

A final note: I’ve been submitting a press release for the book to multiple sources, and will be reaching out to different avenues over the coming weeks. As well, we’re just 11 preorders away from the chapter 4 posting. I hope to be able to share that incredibly zany chapter with you soon!

Whew! That’s a lot. Thanks for your attention, folks. Next week’s e-mails will be a lot more fun. ;)

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

K. M. Cooper