’Meaningful: have meaning,’ - A dictionary I wish gave me a longer description.

This is it, Space Crew. The final days of the campaign. I’ll get all sappy later on, but right now we’ve got work to do. 

Your Convincingly Commanding Space Captain,
-AC

PS: If I sent you book spam today, it means you haven’t ordered yet!

New chapters uploaded for your literary pleasuring!

Today is the day!

Rise is now available for order.  Not preorder.  Actual order.

#lifetimeachievementunlocked

Next?  Funny you should ask.  Fall.

Happy reading and please leave a review as soon as you can:-)

Tomorrow is the day these critters come skitter-scuttling to your front step. SINGLE VERSION officially publishes 9/13. TOMORROW.

For all of you expecting paperbacks, they’ll be shipping any day now. If you ordered an e-book, you should be getting it today.

When it reaches your beautiful eyeballs, take it on the train with you so everyone can see Susie Kirkwood’s breathtaking cover design, and when a stranger asks you, "That book looks so attractive and yet...repulsive," you can say, "First of all, that wasn’t a question. And second of all, this is SINGLE VERSION. It’s part sci-fi, part horror, part cyberpunk, and it is creeping me the fuck out. Please, stranger, would you check my back for roaches. See any? None? I feel them there. No? Great. I LOVE READING!!"

I can’t believe this day is finally here. Thank you everyone for your belief and support. I truly hope you dig the story and that it resonates with you. And if it does, please tell someone about it. Write a review on Amazon or Goodreads. Toss it up on your blogs, your Facebooks, your Instas. Pitch it to your book club. Any help spreading the word is wonderful, appreciated help.

And I’ve got another project in the works...more on that very soon.

In the meantime...please enjoy SINGLE VERSION.

Tantalus Depths has come a long way since this campaign first began. It’s also fallen pretty far here and there, but it’s also come a long way since then.

The support I’ve seen from all of you has been beyond critical to the success this campaign has seen, but we still have a long way to go. As of today, we need 185 more pre-orders to hit full publication, and we have only about a month to get there.

I’ve reached out to just about as many people as I can at this point. I’m dependent on you to help bring in new readers; people you know who would like Tantalus Depths who I haven’t had the pleasure of asking about it myself.

To that end, I’m launching a special promotion from now until the end of my campaign: at the end of my campaign, whoever has referred the most people to buy copies of Tantalus Depths will have a minor planet named after them in the book.

It won’t be seen, since the entire story takes place on Tantalus 13, and will likely be only a passing reference. However, your planet will become a fixture in Tantalus Depths’ universe; a member world of the Colonial Hegemony, alongside other exotic and mysterious exoplanets such as Showalter, Samrat, Hayden, and Atropos. Your planet will be a part of the canon of this universe, and who knows? We may one day see more of it in future sequels or spinoffs.

To qualify for this honor, you simply have to be responsible for bringing the largest number of new readers to Tantalus Depths. Your own first order counts as one. If you get a friend to order a copy, that counts as two. A new friend counts as three. It’s that simple.

If at the end of the campaign there is a tie, the winner will be selected at random from among the top referrers. To prevent abuse of Inkshares’ referral systems, please confirm any new referrals with me via private message.

Have fun, and get to referring! (especially if you have a cool planet-sounding name.)

Happy Monday, y’all!

First off, A Beast Requires is clinging to 10th Place in the Geek & Sundry Fantasy Contest, with 85 backers. Yea, it’s getting to that part of the campaign where every backer matters, so if you haven’t had the opportunity to back A Beast Requires yet, now is definitely the time. At 107 pre-orders, we’re almost halfway to the Quill goal, which is nice.

So, dragons.

I count myself lucky that so many of you following me are writers. We all know The Struggle. It doesn’t matter how many books you’ve written, or what sort of genre you write, all of our work starts with that first glimmer of an idea. We all cultivate that glimmer, scribbling in notebooks or banging away at a keyboard. We draft, and draft again, searching for beta readers, grammar checkers, and if we’re lucky, an editor. 

While we are all at different places in our writing, we all remember that first book we poured our souls in. Mine was an absolute train wreck of a fantasy adventure, involving a book, a dog, and an angry teenage wizard. I loved it so much, but twenty years later I can look back and say with absolute certainty, it was a complete pile of words. We get better with every story. Hells, we get better with every draft, and we all know the joy that comes from finishing that final edit. But it’s not our final edit, and we all know the frustration and sadness that looms off in the distant horizon.

I like writers. Actually, I like content creators, but I’m particularly biased towards writers. And cooks, but that’s an entirely different story. It’s why I’m so thankful so many writers follow me on Inkshares, and how I absolutely lose my shit when another writer backs A Beast Requires. We all know how rough it is, especially how rough an Inkshares campaign is, so it comes as a welcoming comfort every time one of likes the thing I struggled for. I will always try to back as many writers as I’m financially able to. Support means everything to a writer, especially when  you’re just starting out. There will always be The Struggle, and there will always be dragons, but none of us are ever truly going through all this alone. 

Hello, all! A quick Monday update to share that we’re now at 57 preorders! In just 6 orders time, we will be 25% funded and a quarter of the way to Witherfist being published.

At the time of writing this, Witherfist is currently a nominee for the Epic Fantasy Syndicate’s monthly pick. The syndicate supports "Grand epic fantasy with magic, a fully immersive secondary world, and series potential -- stuff that will make Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones, and Wheel of Time fans tingle with excitement."

It’s a real honour to be considered for the syndicate’s support and especially when there are so many brilliant fantasy books funding at the moment. I’ll write to you later this week to let you know what the outcome was!

~ Jenny

Sunshine is Forever is now an InkShares "Staff Pick!" Click on the link and check out the nifty new badge!

https://www.inkshares.com/books/sunshine-is-forever

This news was just too cool not to share! Sunshine is Forever is now 199 preorders away from a full publishing deal. 

Here are some Fun Facts for you:

Fun Fact: You can buy up to 10 copies of  Sunshine is Forever, bringing it that much closer to 750 preorders!

Fun Fact: If you become a "Super Backer," you get access to drafts of the novel before anyone else, and you also get your name at the back of the book!

Fun Fact: I’ve sent close to 5,000 messages about Sunshine is Forever! I know! Crazy!

Fun Fact: Asking a friend to preorder is super easy.

Fun Fact: I’m at the end of my network, so I am relying on you to get me to 750 preorders!

Most Fun Fact: I will post a FINAL Teaser Chapter this Thursday.

You are all the best! And Sunshine is Forever is so incredibly close to 750 preorders! Let’s wrap this fundraising party up so that I can focus on getting this book into your hands!

Kyle T. Cowan