Happy early 4th of July to all of my fellow Americans and non-Americans, I hope you have a great day too!
Quick update - You may be interested in following a new idea that I have placed here on Inkshares. Here’s the extremely short pitch:
Follow the life of Eugene Trickens, a survivor of WWII genetic experimentation with a secret, in this indirect sequel to AGELESS.
That’s right, I am in the planning stages for TIMELESS, a sequel to AGELESS! The plan (currently very, very rough) is you will see a lot of characters again in some capacity and dive deeper into some of the mysteries of the first book! I want to stress, this is not a direct sequel and we won’t pick up where the last book left us but don’t worry...possibly someday...whoops, I’ve said too much!
Also, we are less than two weeks from the end of the Nerdist Video Game Contest, and it’s time to jump in feet first and support TOO MANY CONTROLLERS! For those that have, I say thank you! If you haven’t, (and I’m looking at YOU James M. and a few others too) NOW is the time. We still need you! I still need you.
Lastly, if you have some time to listen, I had to pleasure of sitting down with Elan Samuel of The Warbler Books for a great interview (there are heavy AGELESS spoilers)!
And we can’t forget THE ROAD TO 100 REVIEWS on Amazon! Please leave a review if you can!
Have a safe, happy holiday and thanks for everything!
Are you there Inkshares? It’s me, Tony.
As you see, I need your help. I’m told when you hit 100 reviews on Amazon, your life changes drastically. I’m assuming ending world hunger will be involved...but what do I know?
I need your help getting to the pot of gold at the end of this rainbow. We are already more than a quarter of the way there. So, if you haven’t reviewed let me help:
Here are a few great new reviews to read to help you if you get stuck. FYI - They contain SPOILERS. Click at your own risk!
Ageless reviews from TheWarblerBooks.com and CulturedVultures.com
EBOOKS ARE COMING!
Hi everyone! Guess what? We just reviewed the ebook files (both kindle and epub), and they’re looking pretty sweet. What does this mean? An early weekend present for all my backers - the ebook should be downloadable by this Friday, so if you’d like to dive into the story over the holiday weekend, you can! Huzzah!
To access the ebook, you must return to www.inkshares.com, log in, and when you click on your profile picture (top right hand corner), select "Bookshelf." From there you’ll be able to download the book to your computer (or other device). Then transfer the file into whatever folder holds your ebooks, and boom, you’re good to go!
In other news, the physical books are in as well, and should be shipping out some time in the next week or so. So if you’d rather have the feel of paper between your fingers, it’s not that much longer of a wait.
For those of you who live in the Maine area, look for a backer thank you party soonish, as well as possible events at Bull Moose stores. I’ll be sure to let you know!
One last thing - in a few weeks I’m going to be leaning on you all to do me one more favor: post reviews on Amazon (and Goodreads, if you’ve got an account). Amazon’s algorithms take into account, among other things, the number of reviews a book has when it is deciding what to include in email newsletters, as well as "you may also like..." links. They don’t have to be long, they don’t have to be good (though remember what your mother said about not having anything nice to say), they just have to be. So look for that harassment in the coming weeks, as soon as the book officially goes live over there.
Thanks again for your support! I’m so excited to deliver the book to you that you blindly ordered almost a year ago. Super cool.
Cheers
Dave
Inkshares just released a new blog post where they asked the current top ten authors in the Nerdist video-game contest to single out one (or more) of their competitors, either inside or outside of the current top ten, that has caught their eye.
I know it seems like this is slow going, but in the grand scheme of things, Monkey Business is killing it on these reviews. Go on boys and girls, you know what to do.
Add your review now! And thank you all so much for tolerating all this review begging.
- Landon
Backer Thank You Party!