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Happy Friday all,
I have a few updates for this weekend, but having already sent an update this week, I’ll make it snappy.
(1) 14 Orders left to reach Full INKSHARES Publishing !! That’s right, you can stop rubbing your eyes! We have 15 days to get less than an order per day.. are we up for it?!
(2) Please check out my interview on Nell Walton’s great blog. Nell offered this feature even though the novel has nothing to do with SciFi or Fantasy , I did say I’ll look into sticking a dragon in there... Khaleesi John maybe? ;-)
(credit due to Miss Emily Dital for colouring the caricature below)
(3) The Syndicate I lead here on Inkshares "Thriller Night" now has a Goodreads group. This is in effort to increase exposure of thrillers, mysteries and suspense novels on Inkshares; and to increase Inkshares’ visibility on Goodreads. We let authors who are nominated for our backing pitch their books, and a few have already done so. We encourage membership from everybody, not just paying syndicate members. You are invited through this link.
Again, thank you all for the amazing support!
JD
Caricature: drawing - Joni D, colouring - Emily D
Story Update:
Hello all!
News
Good news! “First on Mars” just got another great review, this time from Kendra Namednil (maybe go check out her book Borehole Bazaar). This means there are now six great reviews!
In other news, “First on Mars” is about one-third of the way to Quill! There’s no time to rest though. We still have a long way to go.
As an incentive, I’m going to post the next full chapter (6: Bottom Up) when we hit 100 orders (which is not too far away). Although it still needs some work, the draft is done. This chapter is when the real crisis of the book begins and things really get interesting. So please pre-order, share, or recommend!
Art
As part of doing research for this book, I’ve hacked together some concept artwork. Here is one such image, a design concept for Rigel:
Readers
One of the great things about funding this book is that I’ve gotten readers from all over the world. Here’s a map of the readership (Inkshares provides this by analyzing IP addresses I assume):
Thank you for reading. In case you were wondering, you’re the reason I write. Yes, you, the one reading this – not those other people, just you. :)
Until next time,
The orders have been coming in slowly but surely! I am very excited to be nearing the milestone of 250 orders and I wanted to show you all a photo of the Hero Seaplane model from the novel that I will raffle off to a Lucky Winner once we reach Quill publication! 
Each order gets an entry and if things go well I will be raffling off another hand-painted seaplane at every hundred order mark thereafter. So ... pre-order 1 or 2 or 10 books to increase your chances and lets get this High-flyin’ South Pacific adventure into your hands and bookstores worldwide!
Also, this campaign is one of the few rare titles to be offered in Hardcover!
Sincerely, your friendly Flying Boat Captain - Eric H. Heisner
Hey Everyone,
With 13 days left in the campaign, we are 51 percent funded. Thanks to those of you who pushed me past that mark over the weekend. We just need 121 orders and we are published!
Last week, I said that every new pre-order made until we hit 250 would be entered into a drawing for an Amazon gift card. However, I have decided to change that. Rather than one drawing at the 250 mark, we will have three drawings at three different milestones.
The first drawing will happen at the 150 mark. All pre-orders that were made since my last announcement have already been entered into this.
The second raffle (the prize of which will be announced when we hit 151) will be for all pre-orders made after 151 and will span to the 200 mark.
The final will be for pre-orders 201 to 250.
Again, thanks for taking this journey with me. We are almost there. Please continue to spread the word.
Rob
Good morning Dreamers!
Guess what?!
We have an official book cover! I’d like give a very special thanks to folks over at Inkshares and Girl Friday Productions! I couldn’t be more thrilled with how everything has progressed.
Head over to the Space Tripping order page to check it out!
https://www.inkshares.com/books/space-tripping
Much Love,
Patrick