Hi All,
250 PRE-ORDERS!
Aloha All,
I’m very excited to announce my novel Lost in the Fog has received over 250 pre-orders (261 and counting) and will now be published by Inkshares! Thank you so much for your support, and I cannot even begin to express how grateful I am!
I’m also thrilled to report this is (hopefully) just the first step for Lost in the Fog. Inkshares is sponsoring their Launch Pad Contest, and I’m officially entered. It started April 1st and goes until November 4th, and the top three books on the basis of unique pre-orders will be automatic winners. For more on the contest, you can click here.
All Launch Pad winners will receive full marketing/promotion/editing, and their novels will be sold in brick-and-mortar bookstores! With the 250 pre-orders, I’m only guaranteed Lost in the Fog will be published and available to purchase online, but without any promotion and only basic copy editing. That is cool in itself and a huge accomplishment, and I’m super happy to have reached that goal.
But being a Launch Pad Contest winner would be a dream come true! Not only will Lost in the Fog get full publishing and promotion, there’s also top talent agencies (including UTA & Paradigm) and production companies (such as Village Road Show & 3 Arts Entertainment) involved in the contest. I’m currently in second place on the leaderboard out of 116 submissions. That’s very exciting, but there’s still a long way to go.
The goal now is for new readers to keep pre-ordering so I can cement Top 3!
You are all the absolute best, and thanks again from the bottom, top, and (gooey) center of my heart for your support! If you think any of your family or friends or work colleagues would enjoy Lost in the Fog, I would be very grateful if you shared the link with them via email or text:
https://www.inkshares.com/books/lost-in-the-fog
With the first goal of 250 pre-orders complete, Top 3 in the Launch Pad Contest is in now in our sights! Mahalo, mahalo, mahalo!!
Here’s a picture of me on Maui (on my birthday this past weekend) celebrating 250 pre-orders. 😊
I’ve added 7 more chapters to the teaser(12 in total now, about 10,000 words). Hope you enjoy! Follow the link below, click on "READ". And, tell a friend...please.
https://www.inkshares.com/books/under-the-rug
Many thanks!
Todd Wonkka
Faithful backers,
Hope you all had a great weekend. Summer is close, and so are we, to reaching our goal to receive FULL publishing for Under The Rug. Still in first place. Climbing fast. Gotta keep both feet on the gas. If everyone gets one person to pre-order today, that would put us at 501 pre-orders, an unprecedented jump the likes of a Kangaroo on "the juice".
People are busy, I understand. Your referrals have been great so far, and sometimes it takes reminding that person more than once to hit that green button. So, I really do appreciate your efforts. This whole process has humbled me. Seeing the love, the support, the encouragement. It’s been one of the most fulfilling adventures of my life already. Still so much more road to travel.
Much love...
Todd
Sorry, forgot to include the link to the pre-order page so you can email to friends. ;-)
https://www.inkshares.com/books/under-the-rug
Great News! Under The Rug is in first place in the "Spring 2017 Launch Pad Manuscript Competition on Inkshares". We’re now at 191 Readers and 240 pre-sales.
This is the second competition with The Launch Pad, the first of which ran last fall, with exclusive partners Ridley Scott of Scott-Free Productions and Brooklyn Weaver of Energy Entertainment. Eight books were green-lit for publication, along with TV and film that followed.
I am in first place because of YOU. Thank you all so much. Let us not relent, for there is still much work to be done in order to maintain that #1 position.
I humbly ask that you please get one friend to pre-order a book today...if you haven’t already. Once again, I’m grateful for your support.
Thanks for reading!
Todd Wonkka
