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 Hello Everyone! 

I have some great news! RUNE's schedule and publication date has just been finalized! Although there are many deliverables on RUNE's production timeline (publishing and marketing a book is a MASSIVE undertaking), the one readers will be most interested in is:

RUNE OF THE APPRENTICE will be published on November 1st, 2016!

Additional good news is that YOU will be getting your copies before this date AND we will also be able to have special early release copies for New York Comic-Con, too! We don’t know the exact date books will be shipped to you, but I’ll keep you posted!

Even though you will be getting you books before November, I know this is still a long way out. Reading this, I’m sure you are feeling the same emotion I initially felt upon hearing the news: disappointment that RUNE will not be published sooner like originally planned. Despite that initial feeling, as I work more closely with both Inkshares and Girl Friday Productions, and see the tremendous amount of work being put into RUNE, that disappointment has been transformed into appreciation and gratitude. While I know you do not see this hard work first hand, I will do my best to keep you updated on our progress so you can see all we are doing to polish RUNE into printed perfection—which will hopefully help curb your disappointment, even if only a little.

I can go on and on about this and am happy to answer any questions over at @StoneJamison, or down below in the comments, however, I want to keep this update quick so as to not fill up your inbox. Although there are MANY milestones ahead, the next important steps are Cover Design and Developmental Edits!

Cover: I have a call later today where the RUNE team will be solidifying our collective vision for the cover so the designer can begin to move forward with samples for review and selection. There are usually three rounds to this process. The early samples will focus on options of several different directions and the later rounds will polish that vision, bringing it into a finalized physical form. The designer’s previous work is fantastic and I am very excited to see what he produces. I will keep you all updated as we progress!

Developmental Edits: Editing a 500+ page Fantasy/Sci-Fi epic is no small feat. Although RUNE has already had several rounds of professional editing, there is always ways to make a novel of this magnitude more engaging, engrossing, and awe-inspiring! I have been tremendously pleased with the pre- Girl Friday Productions edits, and am now very excited to see their continued polish added to RUNE. The next round of Developmental edits should be done by the end of next month, and then wrapped up by the end of March with copy editing and proofreading to follow in the months to come.

As I said, there are many more milestones after that (I have not even gotten started on marketing!) but for now I’ll end this update. The road to publication is a long one, however, I am so very excited to have you all along for the ride. RUNE OF THE APPRENTICE is going to enliven the hearts and minds of readers across the globe, and it warms MY heart knowing that you all are here to partake in this EPIC journey!

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    Background about me... and a little advice on how to get attention of an agent or publisher

    After 4yrs I published my first book with an imprint that had been bought out with a major publisher. I had over 100 rejections from agents and publishers, but managed to finally get a publisher in a round-about way.

    Because I was writing a memoir based on my line of work, I approached the biggest nursing union in the world that has a weekly magazine, and gave them a copy of one of my rejection letters. The rejection letter said the following...

    '...no one wants to read about a nurse...no one will buy a book about a nurse...'

    Naturally this seriously pissed off the nurses at the union, and they replied with the following...

    '...everyone knows a nurse...everyone like nurses...and everyone wants to read about nurses...we're happy to read your work.'

    They read it and loved it, and recommended me to a contact in the publishing business.

    I now have 2 books published and around 200,000 sales later (majority of them ebook, although was on UK airport shelves and in WHSmith) but the imprint has closed and the overseeing major publisher will not even look at my work without getting an agent.

    I can't even get an agent with such a history of sales and 2 books out. In fact, when I had my first contract offer, I approached a dozen agents, and only 1 was interested in taking me on, even with a guaranteed contract. Some even said to me that they had not heard of anyone getting a major publisher without an agent, and could not tell me how they could be of benefit to me.

    I also learned that when your imprint closes, and the overseeing publisher takes over, they don't bother with promotion. So they own the rights to my 2nd book, while I get left with a lot less input than my first book.

    I tried discussing this with them, and they ignored my email.

    So, here I am, trying not to be bitter. But my current project 'the Bully book' is something I truly feel could be  huge. I work with teenagers, and they cannot put it down. 

    So I'm a bit nervous about inkshares, not because of anything they've done, but I have very little trust left in any part of the whole publishing business. But what I have found on this site so far is encouraging, and that is genuine people.

    So thanks for your kind words so far. I will get round to reading more of the books I have followed, but will take bit of time is all.
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