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It is all about personal asks @Charles Moore  this is a crowdfunding platform, you have to go out and ask people to donate to your project, in this case your project is a book. You have to switch your pitch from "buy my book" to "support me" that is how you get your friends, family and acquaintances to pre-order. This is about you so when you hear from your cousin "I don’t really read" (who does these days) you can answer "I’m not asking you to read the book, I am asking you to help me become a published author" You need a special kind of personality to do this successfully and you need to be willing to get over your fear or whatever it is that stops you from asking people, following up with people and asking again. Read Tal’s advice, her run a great campaign.
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    I started off using Pages, but I have now switched to Scrivener, which I highly recommend. It was clearly designed with writers in mind, and makes it simple to create finished books in a variety of formats.
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      I use Scrivener to write formally and Ulysses to gather ideas. I have a big issue with Ulysses not being able to change its storage location (in a fully featured way,) and that is almost a deal breaker for me. I like to keep all my writing materials backed up to Dropbox in the case of critical failure.

      I think the Windows version of Scrivener is far inferior to the Mac version, and that may be a consideration for you. I’ve never found an application that is as good at taking your drafts and rendering it to a Kindle file and reading the work in that format is fairly critical to my process.
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        Quick Pilot X Update

        So things are progressing well and the best thing of all is we have an official publication date!

        Pilot X is set to come out March 14, 2017. 

        Your early support and patience will definitely be rewarded.

        I met with the fine folks at Girl Friday Productions last week to talk over the plan and we’re in the process of settling on cover art. Very excited. The visual style will be a big departure from my video, I promise, Heh.

        THE EDIT!

        Got the first edit back from Clete with some excellent suggestions. Very excited that one of the suggestions was not "hmm, you should start over." So that’s positive! 

        Actually the book is in better shape than I expected with some areas that need clarification and mostly concentrating on keeping it friendly to new readers. So I’m 100% confident this is going to be a better book than it was before. I sent my first pass back to Clete yesterday.

        RANDOM BOOK FACT

        If you were at a party on Alenda you might find yourself eating a creamed farragut pastry and a bottle of Kreistner’s Malt .

        Thanks again for your belief in and support for this book! I wish it was March already.

        Tom

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