EBOOKS ARE COMING!

Hi everyone!  Guess what?  We just reviewed the ebook files (both kindle and epub), and they’re looking pretty sweet.  What does this mean?  An early weekend present for all my backers - the ebook should be downloadable by this Friday, so if you’d like to dive into the story over the holiday weekend, you can!  Huzzah!

To access the ebook, you must return to www.inkshares.com, log in, and when you click on your profile picture (top right hand corner), select "Bookshelf."  From there you’ll be able to download the book to your computer (or other device).  Then transfer the file into whatever folder holds your ebooks, and boom, you’re good to go!

In other news, the physical books are in as well, and should be shipping out some time in the next week or so.  So if you’d rather have the feel of paper between your fingers, it’s not that much longer of a wait.

For those of you who live in the Maine area, look for a backer thank you party soonish, as well as possible events at Bull Moose stores.  I’ll be sure to let you know!

One last thing - in a few weeks I’m going to be leaning on you all to do me one more favor: post reviews on Amazon (and Goodreads, if you’ve got an account).  Amazon’s algorithms  take into account, among other things, the number of reviews a book has when it is deciding what to include in email newsletters, as well as "you may also like..." links.  They don’t have to be long, they don’t have to be good (though remember what your mother said about not having anything nice to say), they just have to be.  So look for that harassment in the coming weeks, as soon as the book officially goes live over there.

Thanks again for your support!  I’m so excited to deliver the book to you that you blindly ordered almost a year ago.  Super cool.

Cheers
Dave

Wednesday night I headed over too Berkeley for the Trekonomics signing event. Had a great time listening to people talk Trek and got to meet the author himself. Very inspiring to meet a very successful Inkshares author. Even got my copy Signed!

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Happy Friday, backers!

Here is a link to the segment of last night’s Chronicle episode featuring #upMdownC. I have noticed an enormous increase in traffic to my site since the spot ran (see below), and copies sold out almost at once on Amazon. That’s the power of the boob tube for you.

If you notice toward the end of the segment, they show an overlay of someone browsing the reviews you left for the book on Goodreads. This is precisely where all of that advance work comes into play, so once again, THANK YOU! Hopefully, these reviews will convince other readers to give the novel a chance. If you haven’t left a review on Amazon or Goodreads yet, please consider doing so? I had 50 on Amazon a week ago, which means more exposure via search on their site (or so I’ve heard), but they mysteriously took one down. Who will rescue Daniel, Thomas and Bella from sub-50 review hell?

Upcoming: an excerpt from my current novel-in-progress on The Anthill, a writers colony in Beijing; a guest post about the crowdfunding process on Asian Books Blog, a blog about, who would have guessed, Asian books; and a review on The Nanfang, a popular expat blog about China.

Thank you for your support. The book literally (and I hate that word) could not have gotten here without you.

Quincy