Hi guys, so we have 4 days left and unless there is a huge Hail Mary pass coming my way that nobody’s bothered to tell me about, this book won’t make the Quill imprint.  Between being sick and work deadlines (I work in film so everything is now, now, now) I’ve not been able to focus on the campaign as much as I would have liked, especially as a few things fell through.  But rest assured that this doesn’t mean this book is dead.

I wasn’t depending on this campaign to finish the book, since it’s already been completed and had a first pass at editing.  One of the huge attractions of Inkshares was being able to afford to work with one of their professional editors (if we’d reached the 750 mark).  So You Might Be a Vampire was first serialized on Wattpad and has over 690K reads over there, and I honestly thought that this would be a good way to get some traction out of the readership, but there is a huge difference between people who want to read for free and people who are willing to pay for it.  A small number of Wattpad readers have followed (Hi Sharyl), but ultimately some people are really hard to lead and see an author trying to make a living from a book as "selling out".  Go figure, right?

Anyway, my point is this: it’s not going to make it here on Inkshares, so I will make it available to everyone who has ordered.  I will get coupons for Amazon for those supporters who wanted the paperback (via CreateSpace).  Digital copies will also be available via iTunes and Amazon, so you can read on iPad or your Kindle.

Book 2 (So You Might Not Be Human) is almost complete and you might see that popping up on Inkshares, so I hope to have your support with that (I’ll have a much better campaign planned), especially after your receive your copies of So You Might Be a Vampire.

Thank you for all of your support. You guys have been great.

Tears of the Assassin has begun it’s publishing campaign.  Thanks for being a reader.  Check out the first three chapters and I would appreciate it if you made a comment or wrote a review.  I hope you enjoy the story and I look forward to hearing from you. Thank you.

Greetings, everyone!

I hope you’re enjoying a lazy Sunday, or getting the most out of this love-holiday, to close off a great week. My week has been a roller-coaster ride full of marketing and networking, trying to make sure that The Traveller’s Cup continues on its path toward publication. 

First, there’s a new blurb up on the page. I ran this by a group of my writing friends and they agree it packs a better punch, so I hope you enjoy it too. And also that it spurs you to send the link to all your friends. 

Second, you guys are amazing. Thanks to you we’ve managed to stay fairly consistently in the top 10. Maintaining this means more exposure for the book, and inspires me to make sure it’s a story worthy of your pledges. For proof of the exposure, check out the article Nerdist did about the campaign, where you can get some details on the inspiration that went into The Traveller’s Cup. 

Lastly, despite all of this great news, we have a long way to go still. If we all share with our friends and communities enough to get one more order each, we could reach first place. Please help me make this happen. 

With all the warm Valentine fuzzies you could ask for and then some,

-AC

A new entry has been added to Mr. Butler’s diary at thediaryofmrbutler.wordpress.com! For those of you who are new followers, I am posting in the link provided a prequel of sorts to The Madness of Mr. Butler. These are entries from Mr. Butler’s diary that he kept prior to the events chronicled in the novel. I am particularly fond of this entry. So, enjoy! Tell your friends! These entries will always be free supplemental material for anyone to read!

I have also updated the "about" section on the homepage for Mr. Butler to give everyone a little better idea of what the book is, well, about. You can check that out here.

Everything else is going quite well. This competition is fierce! This makes me quite happy, as a good, close competition will keep everyone on their best game. I am honored to be in the top 5...but it’s the top three that matters in the end, so if any of you are on the fence about pre-ordering, please let me know if you have any questions, or if I can do anything for you. Heck, it’s Valentine’s Day...if you’ve already ordered a copy or if you order a copy by the end of today, I promise to write you a short love poem. Just let me know if you’d like one by emailing me at madmrbutler@gmail.com. 

The rest of the novel’s construction is a fun and difficult task. I have holed myself up in the corner of my basement near my daughter’s toys, keeping a large roll of chart paper in front of me to keep the novel’s events in check while keeping many notebooks and scribbles to help my brain organized. The guitar and ukulele are being abused, and all of the post-it notes to the right are all of my wonderful backers. I have a board dedicated to all of you so I can keep track of things and admire those who have had such faith in the book thus far. (I hope the picture shows up; this is my first time trying to post one.)

Thank you again for all of the support, and much love to everyone this Valentine’s Day.

Love always, 

-Michael.