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G’day everybody! 

I’m back again with a slightly pre-emptive week 3 update.  You’ll notice the number of copies sold hasn’t moved much in the last week (from 94 to 97, I believe, although I did receive ), but never fear!  Kanimbla is still on track for success.  

The focus for this part of the campaign has been on reaching out to some of my long-shot prospects (twitter followers, etc), while I spend the rest of my time distributing flyers and business cards, etc, to try and generate some passive sales while I continue campaigning over the next few weeks.  

At 97 sales, Kanimbla is currently 39% of the way to the Quill publication goal.  If you’ve already bought a book, thank you!  If you can keep spreading the word, that would be great.  And if you haven’t, what’s holding you back?  Flick me a message and let me know!

Cheers!

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    Whoa... what a trip it’s been.

    Before I get into that though, let me give you some good news. Better news than whatever I’ll be prattling on about.

    So, have you pre-ordered A God in the Shed from Inkshares? You did? You’re awesome. In fact, you might have already received an email notification that your physical copy has shipped (if you ordered a physical copy that is. And you should have, because ooooh boy. Such lovely books. So, so lovely.). But let’s say you’re not into this ’waiting’ thing? What if you want to start digging into this tale of horror in a small down over this very coming weekend?

    Well, you can. By the end of the day, the eBook version of A God in the Shed will be available to download from the site. .mobi and .epub will be available, as always. I sincerely hope you enjoy the book and that if you do, you’ll let me know. Review it on Amazon, on Goodreads. Send me a Tweet @jfdubeau. I want to hear from you guys. 

    You’re my very favourite readers.

    Which is why I put myself through Hell in order to sign all your copies of A God in the Shed. As promised, I flew myself to San Francisco on a plane leaving Montreal at 5:30AM, signed a bunch of copies as they were being packaged and shipped by the amazing Elena Stofle (with an assist from the dedicated Avalon Radys). Hung out and had dinner with Adam and then, at 11:30PM on the same day, was on a plane back to Montreal.

    When I say I’d go to the ends of the Earth for my readers, I do not kid around.

    Now please, enjoy the book. We’ve come this far, it’d be ashamed if you didn’t. 

    JF

    Such a pretty book... (note: Inkshares fed me cheese. They have won my heart once more)

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      Chris Picone liked the forum thread, Questions on profanity, obscenity, etc.
      Thanks, Elena.  

      I have read the Terms of Service, which is why I felt the need to seek clarification.  I don’t mean to be unnecessarily difficult here, but I think I have to do a bit of nitpicking.  If the Terms of Service are going to be strictly enforced, then it seems my project could be disqualified, as could any other text, script, image, etc., that contains a single curse word of the "f word" or "s word" variety.  As some of the contributors here have noted, profanity appears to have been tolerated in prior Inkshares projects, which suggests that the prohibition on profanity and obscenity is only selectively enforced, if at all, or profanity and obscenity have escaped detection.  I’ll leave aside the issue of distinguishing profanity from obscenity, because legally, they are the same thing.

      I studied the legal issues around profanity, obscenity, and copyright while I was an undergraduate.  At the risk of oversimplifying, what’s profane or obscene is in the eye of the beholder, and is judged according to the amorphous notion of "prevailing community standards," which in this case would be the Inkshares editorial board, I suppose.  So let me boil it down.  Would George Carlin’s "Seven Dirty Words" pass muster with the Inkshares editorial board?  If I use, even once, the "f word" or the "s word", or one of their compound variants, in my manuscript, will my Inkshares project definitely be disqualified, or will it be left to the discretion of the editorial board on a case-by-case basis?  Is the whole, finished work judged on its "merit"?  Is there an appeal process?

      Here’s the current legal standard in the U.S.:
      "The Miller test for obscenity includes the following criteria: (1) whether ‘the average person, applying contemporary community standards’ would find that the work, ‘taken as a whole,’ appeals to ‘prurient interest’ (2) whether the work depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct specifically defined by the applicable state law, and (3) whether the work, ‘taken as a whole,’ lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value."  (https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/obscenity)

      Personally, I would find it tragic if Inkshares took a hard line on profanity and obscenity.  Most of my favorite works of fiction include passages that some people have found profane or obscene, and have been banned at one time or another.  I suppose it’s a hill I am willing to die on, if I have to.  "Lolita," "Tropic of Cancer," "Stranger In A Strange Land," "The Catcher In The Rye," "Slaughterhouse Five," "The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn," have each faced bans due to profanity and obscenity, but I seriously doubt Inkshares would want to publicly come out against them.  Am I wrong? 

      Thanks again for your attention to this matter.  It’s all because the word "obscene" is in the Terms of Service.
       
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        Hey everybody, my first book Poison Magic is taking preorders now.
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          Good luck with your campaign, @Josh Sanders :)
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