Hey Campers!

Greetings Jackolytes,

It’s been a couple of months since Sync City has gone out into the wild, and I’ve been getting some fantastic feedback – thanks very much.

To celebrate, and hopefully get some wider exposure, I’m doing a giveaway on Goodreads. If you follow this link you can enter to win a signed copy of Sync City (scroll down below the book cover and click on Enter Giveaway):  https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33377334-sync-city.

It’d be awesome if you could dive on in and take part. It would be even better if you could share this link with your friends and family. Head on over to Goodreads! Jack is waiting for you!

Cheers,

Peter

Hi!  Long time no update!  But here’s a little bit of news!

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Yep, an eBook sale!  If you haven’t purchased Women Like Us and you read on a Kindle or iPad, what are you waiting for?

And if you have read the book, and you haven’t left a review on Amazon, please do so. Doesn’t have to be more than just a few words, but the more reviews the better.

Oh, one more thing:  If you haven’t read about our beagle Derric’s book about his journey from Laboratory experiment to Freagle (free beagle!), here’s that link.  Check it out, why don’t ya?

https://www.inkshares.com/books/love-derric-my-journey-from-laboratory-experiment-to-freagle-who

So that’s it for now.  Happy Reading!

Hey Campers!

My good friend Lew Temple blurbed Sunshine is Forever. Check it out! Your copy arrives August 29, 2017! 

Hello everyone! 

I have lots of great stuff to share today!

First and foremost – The Bones of the Past eBook is ready and available for download for those who pre-ordered through Inkshares!

To grab your copy, just go to the book page here: https://www.inkshares.com/books/the-bones-of-the-past

After you log in, there should be a ‘Download’ tab under the cover image. The book is available in both EPUB (Kobo/Apple) and MOBI (Kindle).

This should be available to you if you ordered an eBook or if you ordered a hardcopy. If you haven’t received a notification email from Inkshares about it, and the download tab isn’t appearing for you, a quick note to Hello@inkshares.com will get it sorted out quickly.

Second - Paperbacks should start going out sometime next month. I’ll be down in the San Francisco area signing the backer copies on May 8th. Your books will start shipping out shortly thereafter!

Third – For anyone in the Ottawa area (or willing to travel!), Chapters Rideau will be hosting a launch event for the book on May 30th from 6-8pm. Come join us for a reading, coffee, and swag, as well as some appropriately themed baked treats from Lolai’s Yummies! For those who asked – there will be lots of paperback copies available in the store that night :)

Full details are here: https://www.facebook.com/events/126870887829199/

Thank you all again and again. I cannot express how grateful I am for the support you’ve shown me, and the help in getting my story out into the world!

What I love most about Maria’s drawing technique is the balance she strikes between stylistic interpretation and realistic detail. Her innate sense of what’s too little and what’s too much resonates with me, it always has, which is why I’m so excited to be partnering with her in this way. Like me, she’s learning as she goes (or, as my partner Michael would say, she’s building the plane while flying it). Maria’s making great progress, and her illustrations look fantastic!

For those of you who missed Maria’s introduction in my last update, you can catch the video here.

Other news

I’ll be receiving my editor’s comments on May 3, which basically makes me this owl, right now, and for every second until then.

(Photo credit: Naldz Graphics)

(Very exciting. Blink blink. I might puke I’m so nervous.)

Also exciting, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau paid Kitchener a visit yesterday. The folks at Vidyard hosted him. They took him on a tour of the office and chatted about many things.

I had the pleasure of tuning in to watch the livestream of the chat, which was fantastic (full recording here: http://demos.vidyard.com/watch/7VRMFw6CbkSfmFfPTsaaRH).

To everyone who pitched in to make yesterday seem so dreamy from the stands: Congratulations on doing an incredible job of hosting our country’s leader. Thank you for making such a lasting and positive impression. I’m proud to be part of a community where members push themselves to be compassionate and thoughtful, take risks, and behave transparently. 

End of news.

You can probably surmise that the phrase ’Your book is in the mail’ is my dearest haunt. I can’t wait for the moment when I get to call you up (email or text, more likely) and say those words. So I thank you for your continued patience and understanding. Most of all, I want to thank you for reading! 

Donna

Now for some fun bits... ;)

Maria’s creative process has been fascinating to observe. I mentioned how, like me, she’s figuring things out as she goes. Maria’s had to stretch her limits to overcome challenges, and in doing so, has developed her own techniques (read: hacked solutions together and I love it). 

It’s my pleasure to be sharing with you some of her midstream work.

(^ ERMAGHERD!)

I hope you’re tantalized by these small flashes. Stay tuned for more detail in updates to come!

Hi everyone, I’m still here. Not in the Jaoquin Phoenix performance art sense, but in the "oh geez, I’m not talking to anyone much lately" sense.

A call to action. PLEASE REVIEW SINGLE VERSION ON AMAZON. That is the best way anyone out there can help me right now. And it does help. A lot. Go here and leave a review when you can: https://www.amazon.com/Single-Version-Scott-Barsotti/dp/1942645139

Reviews on Goodreads, Inkshares, and elsewhere are great too, but Amazon is where I need to see those numbers ramp up in order to continue pushing the book.

I saw CURE in the MOAB.

I saw CURE during NoDAPL.

I saw CURE in the United incident.

I saw CURE in that Pepsi ad.

I see CURE every time I open a news site, more and more everywhere these days...which is not comforting.

A lot of people have messaged me and said that SINGLE VERSION appears to be coming true, politically, socially, environmentally, technologically, and for the people reading it right now, I’ve heard that’s an eerie experience. I’ve heard "I’m glad I read this BEFORE the election" more than once.

I go back and forth about what this means.

So...tell me what this means. Is it good SCI-FI? Good HORROR? A good yarn, who cares about genres? Let me know. Email me or better yet, PLEASE REVIEW SINGLE VERSION ON AMAZON. Pretty please.

https://www.amazon.com/Single-Version-Scott-Barsotti/dp/1942645139

Great news today! I received the Rites of Passage syndicate award! This syndicate supports first time authors, and I couldn’t be more proud to be recognized this way. 

I’ve submitted my manuscript markups to my development editor, and I like to imagine her pouring over them this week. Once I’ve heard back from her, I’ll move on to reworking sections of my manuscript, adding and deleting scenes, and changing back to the original point of view. It’s going to be a lot of work, but well worth it in the end. :)

Cheers, Debbie