It’s taken me awhile to shake the holiday blues (read: hangover). But now that I’ve gotten all the flu, food, and family one could ever hope for out of my system, I’m rediscovering cogency and am embracing the internet again.
On the topic of inspiration, other talented and successful authors we’ll be hearing from include @Evan Graham, @Jason Pomerance, @Ferd Crôtte, & @Rick Heinz. If you have questions you’d like these authors to answer, please don’t hesitate to reach out/speak up.
Donna
Hello all! I am writing to let you all know that I have taken down my project from Inkshares as I have begun the process of seeking representation / publication through other sources. I’ll be sure to keep y’all in the loop on how things go! Thank you all for your support!
Sincerely,
Erin
Happy New Year!
I hope this update finds you all well and relaxed after the holidays. Now the competition / campaign has finished, I’ll be sending out reader updates for Human Resources less frequently. The competition was intense, but the publication process should be a more measured journey. I’ll aim to update you all roughly every month. If you would like to chat, or get some questions answered, I’m happy for you to reach out. You can get hold of me on Inkshares, on Facebook, or Twitter.
Before Inkshares can commence the publication process, there is some remaining work I need to do to tidy up the manuscript. To make sure I don’t hold this process up, I’ve taken the leap and will be writing full-time through January. I’m one week into this and it has been amazing — something I never thought I’d be able to do, and wouldn’t if it wasn’t for the support I’ve received from my wife.
Happy New Year friends.
First let’s take a look at 2016.
1- Lies and Deception got funded.
2- We have helped the amazing : A God in the Shed by the talented JF Dubeau.
3- The Anthology, which include my short story Hardcore : Too Many Controllers won the Nerdist Video game contest.
4- I launched the campaign for Arcadia.
Now for 2017
1- After some major changes to Lies and Deception, the book will be in the hands of the 2nd set of Beta readers in one week.
2- ARCADIA : we have 33 days left to the campaign and 107 copies to go before reaching Quill level.
This is where I , once again ask for your support friends,
a-If you follow Arcadia and didn’t ordered it yet this is be the perfect timing do to so
b-If you already ordered Arcadia, please find one person who will enjoy horror short stories.
Don’t forget I still have copies of A God in The Shed, each order = 1 chance to win a physical copy of this awesome book :)
Once again thank you my friends, and I hope 2017 will be as good as 2016 was for me :-)
Happy New Year!
Friends, Readers, and Sorcerers All,
Happy New Year! You may have seen this in another email, but thanks to you, WE DID IT! We made our funding goal. Because of some last-minute pre-orders, we held on to third place and won The List contest! This means that SORCERY FOR BEGINNERS will be published later this year with FULL MARKETING AND DISTRIBUTION SUPPORT.
I’m over the moon, you guys. Four years ago, I pitched the concept for this book as a screenplay, but my agent said no one would buy it as a spec. If it was based on a book, he said it would be a slam-dunk sale. So I decided to write my first real novel, and nine drafts and several wrong turns later, here we are. In less than a year, SORCERY FOR BEGINNERS will be on the shelves of bookstores.
And I owe it all to you. Your tweets, your shares, and most importantly, your pre-orders got us to this place. Thanks to you guys, we donated $560 to breast cancer research, we finished in the top ten of two separate contests, and SORCERY got a real publishing deal. There’s a lot of work still left to do -- I have to address notes from my editor, Juliane has to do the illustrations, plus layout and cover design and marketing one-sheets -- but for now, I simply want to say THANK YOU. Thank you to all who supported this project over last three months, and to everyone who has supported my writing in other ways over the years. I owe you all drinks. I’d also like to send a special shout-out to all the folks in the Inkshares community, especially Adam, who believed in this book. I look forward to working with you all in 2017.
For now, may you enjoy the rest of your holiday. I wish you all the best in 2017, and no matter what else happens, I hope this book will be a little bright spot in your year. It wouldn’t exist without you.
Thanks again. Onward!
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Dear friends and followers,
Happy new year! By now, you should all have gotten the news that we’ve made our goal, a month early. Or, more precisely, that we’ve made the top three on The List, which means the same result without having to actually hit the full 750 orders. This is pretty awesome, and it’s all thanks to you. Every one of you who pre-ordered, who spread the word, who got your friends to pre-order or even just to look at the book: thank you. Thank you so much.
So, now that we’re "in production", what does that mean? When will you get your books?
I know I’ve been saying that books will probably be out around November 2017, and that was a conservative estimate back in March when I started. But the volume of books going through Inkshares of late means that the production process is longer now than it used to be. Here is what Inkshares has to say about the production process. According to this, it could be twelve to eighteen months from the moment I submit my manuscript before the book comes out. In short: between January and June 2018.
I know. I’m a little dismayed too. But it’s still miles better than not getting it out at all, so it’s still a cause for celebration.
Again, thank you for everything. Let’s party like it’s 1925!
Friends, Readers, and Sorcerers All,
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