This is the sequel to The Bones of the Past. Reading on means (mild) spoilers if you haven’t read book 1!
8th place! I’m absolutely chuffed with that, dear readers.
To have placed in the top 10 of a contest full of wonderful stories and equally wonderful authors is a real honour.
Though Witherfist didn’t place high enough to win the contest, the book’s funding campaign continues. The funding period for Witherfist ends on December 31st, so I will be doing everything I can until that date to ensure that the book reaches at least 250 preorders. I would love to hit the full publication threshold of 750 preorders, but to reach that level, I’d need a lot of help from all of you fantastic people who make Inkshares such an incredible, supportive community.
I hope to have a book trailer video to share with you soon, but in the meanwhile - please continue to share Witherfist with anyone that you think might be interested in preordering.
~ Jenny
PS. There’s one other contest I haven’t fogotten about! I’ve contacted the two winners of the Amazon voucher giveaway and am just waiting on confirmation of their details, to send out the vouchers.
Only 6 days left in the campaign, and only one more update after this one (not counting a post campaign update). So if you’ve been holding off on preordering don’t delay much longer or you’ll miss your chance. Thanks goes out to everyone who has supported me this far, and here’s hoping we can manage to get at least 187 more orders in 6 days.
I was going to continue sharing bits of background on my world and its peoples/creatures with this update, but a few days ago one of my fellow contributors to the Too Many Controllers anthology, Brian Guthrie brought up something more important. There has already been an update sent out from the TMC page, but in the off chance that any of you reading this Exile, Magus update don’t also follow TMC I want to share it here as well.
Just an update for you about an event some of the Inkvengers will participate in this Fall.
BLUF: Support the Inkvengers as we raise money for the hospital that saved the lives of people close to us. Go to Extra Life to find out more.
This weekend, gamers around the world will come together for 24 (25 with the time change) hours of gaming raising money for children. The event is Extra Life and all the money the gamers raise goes to support Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals across the US. The event has raised $22 million up to this point, over $8 million last year alone.
This event is particularly close to the Inkvengers’ hearts. We all know people who have been in a children’s hospital, many in our own family. Brian Guthrie’s niece was born into Providence of Alaska at 26 weeks. They helped keep her in the womb as long as possible, safely delivered her, and saved her life during her 72 day stay in the NICU. She’s now a happy, bubbling kid full of life thanks to that hospital. All of the funds he raises go to Providence of Alaska. To give you an idea of the need, the bed his niece lived in for those 72 days costs almost $10,000 to replace. In 5 years, Brian has only managed to raise $4300. The need is great.
Many, many more gamers have similar stories about the hospitals they support. In fact, the entire event was inspired by Victoria Enmon, a little girl diagnosed with cancer that wanted to do something for the other kids around her that were more sick. You can learn more about her story in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHSZ_82wiJg . Warning: tissues should be nearby.
So, what can you do? Well, you can join in and support a hospital. Learn more at Extra Life. But, if you’d rather just support a gamer, you can go to that site and find someone also doing this. Some of the Inkvengers will be participating during the main event this Saturday, others on another day. You can find Brian and Amanda Orneck by searching for their names on the event page or you can support their team. They are on a team called the Pixel Sharks, which is spread out across the world, mostly current or former military service-members wanting to help others. And don’t worry if you can’t donate right away. You have until the end of the month to help.
Hello magical readership!
To celebrate and thank you all for helping PHANTOM pass the 50 PRE-ORDERS MARK (horray!), I’m uploading a new chapter slightly ahead of schedule. And it’s probably one of my favorite segments in the whole book - Seicha is about to face her deepest fears head-on and enter the Underworld, a place no mortal being has ever set foot before. Things are about to get weird, in all the greatest ways. And I can’t wait to share all that impending weirdness with you!
There’s not much time left in the Launchpad competition, and we’re still languishing right behind the Top 3 - but not too far behind! With everyone’s support, recommendations, and just a few more pre-orders, we’ll be in great shape as the deadline approaches. Thank you again for all your excitement and encouragement!
Love,
Liz
Well, friends, it was an epic campaign, and you all were fantastic for your support. The book came in about 15th out of more than 400 entries, which I think is pretty good for a first time out: 103 readers willing to offer money for a book they could only get a glance at is encouraging.
Hi everyone,
This is really just to say hello, and a big ‘thank you’ to the early followers of my manuscript. It mean a lot to me so, thank you, thank you, thank you!
To be honest I’ve been completely taken aback by the reception to The Lonely Pixel. I really just wrote a story I wanted to read, and I sent it to the Launch Pad competition as a way of getting some critical feedback. Now I’m through to the top 50, and the feedback I’m getting is anything but critical.
So here I am on Inkshares as part of that competition, and I’m very pleased to be here, but also a little overwhelmed. It all seemed to happen at once, and now I’m looking at a countdown of just two weeks and wondering how in the world I’m ever going to sell 250 copies - that’s like ten copies to every man, woman and child I know!
I’ve always loved the idea of creators cutting out the middlemen and going straight to the public and have considered myself a fan of Inkshares since I heard about it a year or so back on the Nerdist Podcast. I’ve been poking around in the background since then, but I’ve never been sure if it was the right platform for me, mainly because the idea of having to sell my own stuff scares the ever-loving bejesus out of me.
As a stereotypical British bloke, my attempts at selling go something like, ‘so I wrote this thing - just something to do in the evening really - but I guess it turned out sort of okay. To be honest it’s probably not your kind of thing, but if you get a moment it’d be real swell if you could take a quick look and let me know what you think. Or not. it’s up to you.’
So I’ve decided I’m in for the long haul, and I’m going to consider this process a learning experience, while I watch and take notes, and try things out to see what works. At the same time, I’m going to be reading other people’s books and getting to know the community, because you guys are clearly all way more knowledgeable about this stuff than I, and I’m keen to learn from your experience.
Anyway, that’s my first post done. Thank you again for following, and if you get a moment, it’d be real swell if you could take a look at my manuscript and let me know what you think. Or not. It’s up to you :)