Hey there,
Hey, and Happy Friday!
Somebody went to the Women Like Us Amazon page and ordered 5 copies yesterday! Here, take a look:
Not sure who did that, but I would thank that person most heartily. Okay, sure, not 500 orders, but you gotta start somewhere, right?
Production of the book continues toward that July 26th publish date, which is extremely exciting. In fact cover design is mostly complete, and there will be two blurbs on the back . Here’s a preview:
"If you have parents, if you have kids, if you have a heart, Women Like Us is the book for you. It’s like a great recipe for life."
This is from author Charles Dickinson, who wrote a novel called The Widows’ Adventures. I fell in love with this book from page one, and hopefully one day soon there’s going to be a movie version of it (full disclosure: I adapted the book and will co-produce the movie), but do yourself a favor if you love to read and get a copy. You too, I bet, will fall in love with Ina and Helene, two ladies who go on a kind of road-trip you haven’t seen before. Or look into one of Charles’ other books like A Shortcut in Time, or A Family in Time. Here’s a link to The Widows’ Adventures:
Here’s the second blurb:
"Women Like Us is a wonderful and true examination of deep, real human emotion."
This one comes from Joseph Asphahani, whose novel The Animal In Man, a Sword & Laser contest winner, is coming soon from Inkshares. If you haven’t pre-ordered a copy, consider doing so. Here’s a link:
https://www.inkshares.com/books/the-animal-in-man-7699
Speaking of other Inkshares books, there’s a Father’s Day sale going on -- there’s 50-75% off some cool books, so check that out. I can especially recommend director Jake Bender’s wonderful The Elephant in the Room, and Landon Crutcher’s Monkey Business, which is a super trippy head-trip of a book!
So that’s it for now. Stay tuned as publish day approaches because there will be more news to share about the book. And, as always, thanks everybody for the support.
Hey all! I’m in the thick of it with chapter 8 on Deus Hex Machina, and things are getting CRAZY. Mechs and Goldfarmers and hexing, oh my!
But I want to talk to you about what I’m working on after DHM. I’ve joined an all-star writing team to put together an anthology all about my second love (after writing) -- video games. It’s called Too Many Controllers, and will feature stories from me and 14 other writers from Inkshares. I am SUPER DUPER excited about this guys, and have been itching to tell you about it.
Today the project went live and I’d love if you checked it out and backed it. Here’s a link: https://www.inkshares.com/books/too-many-controllers?referral_code=302fcf04
If you have any questions about the project, I’d be happy to answer them. I’ll give you a hint as to what my story will be about: It takes place on the Grid. Want to know more? Preorder today and find out!
Hey! It’s exactly 1 year since the end of the first Sword & Laser contest. A year to the day from when I realized three fundamental truths at the exact same time:
A year into this enterprise! Wow! WOW! (wow)
AMOD is out, and we’re starting to leave the initial ’honeymoon’ period and sales spike - what now? What now? What now? I guess I should write something else, huh?
Thank you all again - I know I’ve said it over and over, but ANNIVERSARY OF THANKS.
Don’t forget to put up yer reviews and nominate me for shiny awards.
In my Sunday update I alluded to something in the works involving me that I was really excited about, but I didn’t give specifics. Well, now that the new Nerdist contest has begun and the unveil has happened I feel the time is right to tell you about it.
I have a feeling more than a few of you have already seen this particular entry into the contest - Too Many Controllers: An Anthology. Well, that was my news. In case you haven’t checked it out yet, I am one of the 15 authors contributing a short story to the collection. I’ve mentioned before that science fiction was one of my first loves, and a major reason I’m so excited about this collection is that I’m finally going to get a chance to show that love to you all.
That’s all I’m really going to say about the project here, since when you clicked that follow button you were doing so for Exile, Magus. If you’re interested in keeping up to date with what the 15 of us are doing(myself, Andre Brun, Elayna Mae Darcy, J.F. Dubeau, Brian Guthrie, Paul Inman, Richard Heinz, Ricardo Henriquez, Christopher Huang, Tal M. Klein, Billy O’Keefe, Amanda Orneck, Elan Samuel, Matthew Isaac Sobin, and Jamison Stone), then go follow Too Many Controllers so you can stay up to date as we release more details of the stories contained within.
In case you’re worried that this may delay progress on a campaign relaunch for Exile, Magus, don’t be. Magus is fully written and just really waiting on a proper developmental edit and publisher. Currently I’m waiting on my work schedule to slow down enough to have time to properly promote it before I start another campaign. I’ll have more on that topic when that time is closer, though.
For now I’ll just thank you all for your time, and hope you enjoy yourselves and your reading!
Trekonomics on Marketplace and Business Insider
Dear all,
Here is the link to the Marketplace interview:
http://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/marketplace-tech-thursday-june-2-2016?WT.mc_id=bc56d62f79c4e3dc1d36af7e367b364a
It has been edited to a digestible 3-minutes snippet. But it’s fun.
In addition, I published this piece at Business Insider yesterday, just to mix things up a little bit: http://www.techinsider.io/10-reasons-star-trek-is-better-than-star-wars-2016-5
Enjoy! There is more coming soon.
In the meantime, for those who of you who feel so inclined, I encourage you to leave a short review of the book at Amazon.com : http://amzn.to/1UjeOoY
Thank you again for your continued support,
Live Long, and Prosper
Manu
