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We’re 4th! | We need another 220 pre-orders to win... | A special gift to you
WOW! First, a huge thank you to all of you – especially those of you who’ve pre-ordered in the last few days. I’m now in a solid 4th place, and only 7 pre-orders behind 3rd.
However... in my excitement, I had a quick reskim of the competition rules – and had something of a chilling revelation. Inkshares write that prizes of publishing contracts will be given to "the top three projects as determined by the highest unique reader pre-order counts (as long as they have a minimum of 250 unique readers)".
That emphasis at the end there is mine – and I’d completely missed that element before! So although I’m only 7 pre-orders away from being worthy for a prize, I’m still 220 pre-orders away from being eligible!
Gulp! I really want to be focused on editing the final draft of the manuscript so it gets to you as soon as possible after the competition closes – and also so you can preview a few more of the chapters here on Inkshares’ website before then. But it looks like I need to concentrate on getting a fair bit more crowdfunding support first...!
Please could you help? If each of you can interest at least 3 others in pre-ordering the ebook, I’ll be nearly 50% closer to sharing the ending with you. That’s one family member, one friend, and one colleague each...
When recommending others to www.bit.ly/ripeforexecution, please feel free to also point out that they’ll get their £10/£8 back if I don’t win the competition or hit the funding goal.
Another way you could help, though, would be to leave a review and/or a comment about the book so far on the Discussion and/or Review tabs on the book’s webpage. Should the book go into print, I vow to visit a bookshop in every town where a commentor resides to make sure they get a signed physical copy of the book as a thank you.
That will be my special gift to you, wherever you are in the world. So please get commenting – and please get sharing!
Ciao for niao...
Hi folks! Chip here, with a little update on how things are progressing with Ripe For Execution.
My readthrough video of the first chapter seemed quite popular! In fact, I’ve even had a request from Dean Fearce and Michael Welch to read some of their fantastic crime-novel-in-development, Ruining Boise – which I’ll get round to as soon as I’ve shaken off this rather untimely cold. (NB: You can read the brilliant opening for Fearce & Welch’s novel by clicking here.)
Fortunately, though, the cold arrived just after I’d decided to read all of the first part of Ripe For Execution for you. So if you’re too busy to read it yourself but could have it playing in the background while you work/eat/drive/etc, click here to play the first video and then just let it run – it’ll move to the next chapter automatically.
Already listened to the first chapter? Not a problem. You can click here to go straight to the second chapter and find a link to play the reading there.
In fact, if you made it as far as chapter three, just choose chapter four from the read list in the bottom right corner (that’ll be the one titled "Chloe") and you can start the read from there. Actually, you can start the read from any chapter you like.
It’s been a combination of work and cold that’s held me up getting Part 9 online for you, but please hang tight: it’ll be there soon, perhaps also with an accompanying read.
In the meantime, though, we’re still languishing in fifth place in Inkshares’ mystery-suspense-thriller competition. If you haven’t already done so, please pre-order the ebook for just $10 and help us climb the ranks!
We only need 11 more pre-orders to reach third place and get that publishing deal. So if you’ve already placed a pre-order, please could you encourage at least one friend, family or colleague to do so too? Then you’ll be helping this exciting, explosive book hit the shelves of libraries and bookshops around the world!
Tha’s all for now folks. ’Til next time, stay safe...
