ran across this on my facebook feed, a call for book reviewers and bloggers
https://www.pandorasboxjt.com/about
it’s No Flinch writing, not something I do, though a good story is a good story and I still tear up at E.T.
I also tear up at Jaws, though. That shark was just doing what’s natural for a great white.
Hello lovers of horror and literary madness!
Thank you for taking interest in The Silent Scream of Melania Trump! Keep your eyes peeled in October for new postings with additional content. And if you haven’t yet, please pre-order the book before Halloween - so’s we can win the horror contest and rescue that castle from the evil princess! Wait. Reverse that last.
Oh, also! I’ve been meaning to ask you this: do you live within a reasonable drive from the Chicagoland area? If so, you might enjoy the episode of the paranormally hilarious Blurry Photos podcast that I’m co-hosting LIVE next Monday night! Our topic of discussion will be HAUNTED DOLLS - AAH! So spoopy. Such dolls. Wow. You can learn more about it here: http://www.blurryphotos.org/ .
Thank you for reading! And don’t forget - a book is only as good as the psychic parasite that willed the author to write it.
Mark
Well this is it. The campaign ends this coming Friday and it doesn’t look like we’re gonna make it.
I want to send out a special thanks to my sister Michelle and to Julianne Fleming for ordering multiple copies to help me out. Thanks also goes out to Kyle Cowan, Ryne Drogemuller, M. Robert Randolph, J. Graham Jones, and David Byrne for putting in orders. They constitute everyone who did order and I really appreciate the support.
Barring some monumental miracle, Battle Flag most definitely is not going to reach even the Quill goal, so it’s time to reassess my options. From the look of things I don’t think I have the social media presence to really make a campaign like this work. So what I am going to do, after the campaign officially ends, is cut back the sample chapters to just the Prologue and 1-3. Then I am going to take a look at making another run at traditional publishing or sending The Agoge out to agents and come back around to this later. Maybe I’ll do both and maximize my chances of getting an agent for at least one of my finished projects.
Thanks to everyone who has followed me through this and I hope that one day, if you see a copy of Battle Flag on the shelf at the bookstore, you’ll pick it up and check out the other half of the story.
I don’t know if I’ll do another update before the end of the campaign but we’ll see.
You’re probably wondering why I have not updated recently. I want to tell you now that I had to set aside a few priorities, in order to see how my friends and family were doing around the Houston area.
That along with other recent things happening with multiple hurricanes and the recent earthquake have left me startled. I know that many of you have friends and families in these areas. Please understand why I have decided to take a small break from pushing this book out.
Now that is almost the end I will try and push forward and getting more orders out. This will be the last time of the year that I choose to try and publish these select short stories. I hope many of you can understand my choice.
I have also been trying to get another audio reading out, but I have failed to find the perfect reader for the job. If it was a male voice I would do it myself, but I need a female voice. I will spend the rest of the week trying to find one, for the short story mirror house. If I do not find one, I will find a male or read another story.
Thank you all for understanding again. If you cannot purchase a copy please share this page.
Finally, I know--News From the Realm! Cue the flying pigs.
Developmental Edits Under Way!
So I have great momentum, yes? Yes! So things will speed up? Ha! says life. We’re expecting our second child, I’m ramping up a new job, yadda, yadda, yadda. Seriously, if any of you are getting ancy, don’t hesitate to reach out. I’m actually still ahead of the usual time to publish by about 6 months to a year. Pretty crazy, right?
The good news is Inkshares is starting to crank out projects that are ready. So once the professional edit is complete, we have options. That’s when you won’t be able to get me to shut up. But until then, I appreciate your continued support and good mojo.
Stay well,
Kevin
Orders, Faoii! Listen up!
We’re 9 days away from the official release of our tale, and 10 days away from the launch party I’ll be hosting here in the beautiful Montana. I think we’ve earned a celebration, don’t you? This was a hard-earned victory, and every triumph is deserving of a divine feast and ever-flowing mead (or in this case some delicious cake and tea/coffee). You’ve earned this, Faoii. Set your shields down for a moment and revel for a while.
However, don’t put your Fantoii blade up on your wall, quite yet. We’ve raised a worthy army, it’s true, but I told you in the beginning that someday the world will know of us. They will know of our army and our battle cries. No one can escape the Choir, but we’re not there. Yet.
You can’t post a review on Amazon until October 3, but we already have 2 reviews on Goodreads, and that’s a good start. As you read our tale, I hope you’ll be willing to tell the world what you think of it. Good reviews are the only way the word will spread (Amazon’s algorithm in particular needs a hefty number of reviews before anyone will see it) and all other reviews will help me to become a better writer. In the end, any review at all is going to strengthen our army. I still need you on that battlefield, Faoii. And I look forward to fighting beside you. This isn’t over yet.
Shields up
Faoii-Tahani
