We are coming up on the end of the first month of the campaign. Thank you all for being here. The new excerpt comes from the second section of Chapter 1. As the platoon leaves the capital city, they make their way to the ancestral, pre-Imperial border, the Great River, where the city of Quidor rests. Here, the soldiery talk about the fierce battles they faced in the Ellohi Advance, the officers discuss how they will lead their platoon, and Lieutenant Pekar contemplates what his ultimate goal will be. Enjoy!

Hello, my most awesome followers! We’re about a month into the Inkshares Fantasy contest, and Impervious’ stay in the top 10 spot was sadly short lived. It was a glorious time. The nobility rejoiced and hardly any commoners were conscripted into the army. 

In the meantime, I took a trip to WorldCon where I learned quite a bit about the publishing industry and talked to many awesome authors. It was a fount of knowledge that I’ll be pouring into my writing as I continue to work on Impervious. I’m just a couple of chapters away from finishing the second draft, and I’m already planning out some tweaks and changes that will make the third draft even better! Including (another) version of the first chapter.

I like this, but some possible improvements have been pointed out to me and I think I can make it better. Bigger. Faster. Stronger.

You guys are already awesome, but if you’d really like to see Impervious happen and get your fingers on it, consider recommending Impervious on Inkshares.com, telling your friends or sharing on social media. Both I, and the Emperor would be eternally grateful.

You guys may have noticed it’s been a little quiet here. There’s a reason, and it’s a long one, so I’ll sum it up before I get to the good stuff.

First, all cards on the table: running a crowdfunding campaign is exhausting. Emotionally, it’s draining. You have a day where you crush it and you feel on top of the world. Then there are days, weeks, where nothing happens, and you wonder who you thought you were to even attempt something so ridiculous. We came out of the gate firing, and then I faded away. I feel like I owe you all an explanation as to why.

And it’s Monday.

 

Last week A Beast Requires broke 100 pre-orders! That’s right, 80 amazing, wonderful backers have pre-ordered 102 copies of my book! My deepest and sincerest thanks goes out to all of you who have backed me so far.

Still on the fence? With September on the horizon, now is definitely the time to check out all the bonus content I’ve uploaded to the campaign site. I have another video planned for later on this week, so be sure to stay tuned for that.

So, I have a couple things. About twenty of them, give or take a prologue. The first twenty chapters have been edited to a point where I feel comfortable sending them out for reader feedback. If you’ve back the book, and are interested in seeing where the story goes and are willing to provide feedback, shoot me a message.

Thank you all again. Y’all really are the best.

- Jay

Good day fellow readers,

I have one big news for you. Lies and Deception manuscript is now completed and will be it the hands of beta readers shortly.

I will be working on a new project shortly.

Stay tuned :)

Andre

Greetings! Time for an update! Wizard World 2016 Wrap up!

Last weekend I had my first booth at Wizard World in Chicago, and I’d like to give a thanks to everyone who was a part of that. Particularly BaconMooseComics for allowing me to share half our corner booth. 

If you want to see all our pictures of the amazing cosplay we found and our booth set up, go ahead and click :Here: go ahead and hit "like" on that page if you want. 

In other news, Inkshares has been hard at work figuring out the best date to release the book, and that means things got changed. 

The book’s official release date is now 1/17/17. If there were 17 months in a year, I really would of tried to get it there.. 

Either way, this extra time allows me to conjure up some more conventions, articles, and start writing the sequel, Dystopia. 

Until next week!