Hey, Jamison, I listened to your interview. Very cool! I have a question. You say the profits from these pre-orders will go to military families, but I thought the funds go to Inkshares to publish, market, promote, and distribute your book. There aren't any profits till more than 1,000 are sold.. I also understood only ebooks will be available until sales surpass 750. The people who pre-order right now see a message that this book is currently only an ebook unless the 1,000 goal is met. Where did the information you gave out on the radio come from?
Before you call the cops on me, let me explain.
'A God in the Shed' is a Fantasy/Horror story. This means I'm going to be murdering some characters. I decided it would be fun to have one of these victims be one of my supporters.
The idea is that everyone who pre-orders the book gets a chance to win. Every pre-order that is from a reference will award the referrer an extra chance. The more you promote the book, the better your chances of 'dying' by my keyboard.
The winner, chosen at random, will get to collaborate with me (we'll Skype or something) and we'll come up with a suitable way to include your likeness in the book, as a minor character, which will be gruesomely dispatched.
As a disclaimer: You can't, without their approval have someone else 'killed' in your stead. I reserve the right to cancel this contest if any issue that make it too complicated should arise.
Aloha supporters! Here's an update...
Well, when you start over, you really start over, eh?
When I first was spurred to writing back in the Spring of 2008 after reading Stephen King's On Writing, I took a bit of his advice as holy scripture - namely that of not using an outline. He's quite adamant about not doing it - just write the damn story. And so, ever since then, I have not outlined.
Now here I am, a little over seven years later, ready to attack my writing with the certainty of publishing and I'm finally able to admit that maybe Mr. King's method isn't for me. I mean, he's a very ubiquitous author with many of his works existing as movie adaptations and I have a trail of abandoned blogs and two crappy rough drafts.
However, over this past extended weekend, after resolving to pursue self-publishing, I decided to go back and look over my years of notes I've composed and compiled about this alternate form of earth, Magnami, and its saga, The Oddity....
For the rest, please click the link below and thanks again for your wonderful support and encouragement!
http://www.thebaileyadventure.com/blog/2015/9/8/back-to-formula
I'm going to finally start cycling through which excerpt is featured on the main page now, been meaning to do so for a week. Also, I'm going to delay starting from page 1 until Monday, because there's a section with Talari in Chapter 11 that I really want to post up before I start over from the beginning. If you're enjoying what you've been reading, then please preorder if you haven't already. Also feel free to recommend to others as my own promotional skills are far from great and I'm currently forced to work on a budget of approximately $0.00, so any help is wonderful and greatly appreciated. Thanks for your support.
The lovely Christine Brennecke just left the first review for Sarcasm Font. She says,
Russo's writing is full of wit, humor, and heaps of snark. Sarcasm Font is well-paced, full of delightful details, and far more earnest and thoughtful than you might expect a zombie's tale to be. It's evident that he has done his research and feels at home speaking through the MC's eyes. I can't wait to read more.
Suh-weet!
So far, I think only the most discriminating Readers have found my book. If you want to share this and tell other people you know to take a look, I wouldn't mind. In fact, I'd appreciate it. It's not like Sarcasm Font is a threat to anybody in the Top 5. Or the Top 253. Not even the one with the zombie story. Yeah, I'm talkin' to you, Linville! What's it gonna hurt? Go ahead, send all 31,847 of your Readers my way just to take a peek at a day in the life of a REAL zombie. Should be good for a laugh or two. And who doesn't appreciate heaps of good old American snark?