Well hello there,
So? How was your summer? Mine was busy. Too busy to run a book funding campaign properly. I started funding Arch-Android (the sequel to The Life Engineered) around the time of Nerdtacular in late June. It got a good start but soon after I got caught up in going to other conventions like Necronomicon and DragonCon along with promoting A God in the Shed after its June 15 release and writing the sequel to A God in the Shed!
Long story short, I dropped the ball.
But I’m back!
Inkshares was good enough to grant an extension to the Arch-Android campaign. Let’s get 750 pre-orders as soon as possible and get this over with. The faster this funds, the faster you can read the final product and I am so eager for you to read this one.
Here’s what you can do to help:
What do you get for helping?
So there you have it. Expect more updates and more previews and information as this campaign progresses. Let me put this bluntly: If everyone who receives this pre-orders a copy, we’re done. The book is funded. How cool is that? The campaign ends on December 7th.
Above: The KOBO Aura ebook reader
Thanks!
For all you budding book cover designers
check out font squirrel
it’s a great resource
lots of free fonts for the download
https://www.fontsquirrel.com/
See you tomorrow Albuquerque! 
Thank you to Adrian Gomez at the Albuquerque Journal for doing an article about my signing at Barnes and Noble Coronado in Albuquerque tomorrow at 2PM. I hope to see some of you there! Share the article with this link: https://www.abqjournal.com/1073668/sunshine-is-forever-a-poignant-story-about-youthful-depression.html
Thanks everyone!
Kyle T. Cowan
RUNE’s Two Year Crowdfunding Anniversary and a New Crowdfunding Campaign is Live!
Hello fellow Apprentices and Masters! I just got back from Baltimore Comic Con where we celebrated the 2 year anniversary of our first RUNE Booth! It was also Freya’s very first Comic Con this weekend, and yes, she is sporting a “Straight Outta Asgard” shirt! #WinningAtParenting ?
So wild, just over two years ago we started this whole crowd funding thing, and you all have been with us every step of the way! What a trip it has been! Even as I type these words, I can hear Becca and Freya laughing in the other room! From the bottom of my heart I thank you! The picture below (my first booth ever!) makes be both smile and cringe, but I have learned a lot, and look forward to many more books, booths—and maybe—babies :) But I digress...
I wish to thank all of you for making Rune of the Apprentice possible. If reading it gave you even a fraction of the joy I had writing it, then I consider it a wild success! In that vein, I also would like to humbly request that you leave RUNE a quick review on Amazon by clicking here or by going to www.RuneOfTheApprentice.com It will only take you a moment and will ensure that I can publish many more books in the future—both sequels AND prequels!
Which leads me to my next crowdfunding project called The Last Amazon and it just went LIVE! Yes, you heard right, on the 2 year anniversary of starting my crowdfunding campaign for Rune of the Apprentice I launched the crowdfunding campaign for The Last Amazon, an Epic Graphic Art Novel on Kickstarter! Yay! Go check it out by clicking here!
Fear not, fans of RUNE, for The Last Amazon is a prequel to RUNE and The Rune Chronicles. This story arc not only shows how a desperate human race got from a broken earth to the technologically majestic world of Terra, but also chronicles the birth of Terra’s creator, Numen Consciousness! I am excited beyond words for this book and so proud to be partnered up with David Granjo, illustrator extraordinaire! He is a truly magnificent artist, and now, dear friend!
David and I have so many awesome things planned for this 96 page, 9 x 12 Landscape "Graphic Novel!" Art of this caliber deserves nothing less than the highest quality of inks, printing, hardcover, and care, something which Inkshares is unable to do. To learn more about this epic project click here or go to www.TheLastAmazon.com. If you want to bring this epic near-future sci-fi graphic novel to life, please back it now!
Again, our Kickstarter is now LIVE and taking pledges! How awesome! We are so excited to share more info about The Last Amazon with you in the coming days, so stay tuned. For now I will leave you with these awesome action illustrations below and give you this warning—the fall of liberty is upon us! Beware! To learn more go to www.TheLastAmazon.com
Please support my new book today at www.TheLastAmazon.com THANK YOU!
Greetings to you all.
Extra Life 2017 is almost upon us and I wanted to send an update out about who I’m supporting this year. Usually, I fundraise through the event for Providence of Anchorage, the hospital that saved my niece when she was born too early. For this year, I’m changing to support UNM Children’s Hospital and here’s why.
Liam is a handsome, happy two-year-old son who was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (A.L.L.) in April of 2017. His family was turned upside down and changed forever but remain determined to help this little superhero fight and win this battle. Learn more here.
I want to help little Liam as much as possible, so I’m supporting UNM as they help treat his cancer. On top of that, his family needs support in other ways.
Please consider helping with even a small donation. Every dollar raised through Extra Life will fund critical treatments, healthcare services, pediatric medical equipment, charitable care and more for my local CMN Hospital.
My personal fundraising goal is $1000 to start (I’ve already cleared my first goal). I would appreciate a gift of any amount. Can you help support my efforts? All donations are collected securely by Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals.
I appreciate your time and consideration. I hope I can be supportive of a charitable effort of yours in the future.
Sincerely,
Brian Guthrie
Find out more about Extra Life via the official Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/ExtraLife4Kids
My jefe, whom I call Melon Baller, a.k.a. the Editor, says to post a few lines from Chapter 4 of Murder Happens.
But first, a big THANK YOU to everyone on this site. It’s been a terrific experience. Super appreciative for everyone I’ve met and all the support received.
I fully intend to support as many writers as possible. And I’m taking a breather from extorting pre-orders and breaking knuckles so participating authors can focus on their Launchpad entries.
Anyway, very excited about this story again, and actively working on the manuscript that I’d finished a few years back.
I always blame my day job when I hit a slump, and Melon Baller goes for my heart with, you guessed it, a shiny steel melon baller.
Ouch!
But you know that feeling when you write something, and you sit back and read it and are able to see it without your can’t-kill-your-darlings bias?
It’s like that, it’s good and creepy and the story is evolving much stronger.