Hello Rebels!

Sword and Laser - Well, what an interesting last 24 hours. After managing a very small amount of pomp and ceremony I pressed the accept pre-orders button on the project, because I am a man of my word and the draft has been completed. I then watched a movie and went to sleep. When I woke I decided to check my e-mails and see if anyone had actually ordered the book. To my utter delight two people had, including Thaddeus Woodman the co-founder of Inkshares. With a very warm fuzzy feeling inside, I started reading the rest of the emails from Inkshares and just about fell off my chair. "Sword and Laser competition! What are you doing? Not now, I'm not ready yet." I said to the only person who could hear me...our cat Kisa, who merely wondered if this was going to interfere with her jam-packed day of staring at birds and napping.

I spent several hours on tenterhooks waiting for Finn to stop sleeping, during which time I pressed the button to follow a whole bunch of people and pitched the book like a madman, and finally managed to contact him. Well, we're on the leaderboard...do we do this? Do we take the challenge offered by Sword and Laser and start up a social media campaign, cover art, rapid editing process, alpha and beta readers, prizes, marketing, and telling everyone we've ever met about our book?

YES WE SHALL

Price. - apparently Suffrage is 30 dollars for a hard copy and 15 for an e-book...and everyone else in the competition is 20 and 10.  Wha? That's not right surely? Okay how do I change that? WHA? I can't change that? Urgent desperate e-mail sent to the helpful Inkshares staff...check. Shortly (hopefully very shortly) you'll be able to support the book at the same price as everyone else in the competition. If you've already ordered the book at the exorbitant price of 30 dollars...I am humbled and I salute you, but don't worry you'll be able to get it at the cheaper price. If you ordered the e-book at 15, yeah, you'll get that cheaper too. This horse doesn't need to run in the race with that kind of handicap.

Prizes and rewards. - So of course we are going to release more chapters as we hit follower and pre-order milestones, but that means we need to revise and edit and have beta readers and we need it now. Finn and I started revising last night and knocked off the Prologue and first two chapters. We'll be putting out the improved version of the prologue and chapter One...in the next couple of days. We have also managed to convince a couple of mates to be Alpha readers and have shared the first ten chapters with them. There will be more awesome prizes coming out...we just haven't decided on what they will be because we've been a little busy.

Stay tuned Rebels for more exciting developments as they occur.