Hey folks

By now, most (or all) of you should have received your copy (or copies) of Nomfiction. We hope you love the book as much as we do.

The first time we saw them in person was at AWP16 in Los Angeles at the beginning of April, where we the good fortune of selling a bunch and the even better fortune of meeting a few of the authors face to face.

For those of you who got in on the Prix Fixe offer and ordered more than one copy, your adventure isn’t over. Each of one you will get Nomfiction tote (or possibly poster or t-shirt) from Litographs, and we’re going to draw a few other prizes as well: custom recipe cards, a Nomfiction apron, and dinner in Toronto with the Little Fiction | Big Truths crew and some of our Nomfiction authors (travel and lodging not included). These prizes are subject to change, but rest assured that if they do, we’ll still get you something awesome.

Thank you again for helping us bring Nomfiction into print. We obviously couldn’t have done it without you.

If you’re so inclined, please take to Amazon and Goodreads and say something nice about the book. We, and all the authors, would love you even more for it.

And a couple of final notes…

If you ordered our music anthology, A Mixtape Of Words, it’s coming soon(ish). The book is still in production but is nearing completion. Stay tuned.

In the meantime (and if you haven’t already), please check out our third book here at Inkshares, a nonfiction tech anthology called Re/Coded. It’s a unique and varied look at the many different ways technology has helped / messed up our lives — with work by Ray Shea, Stacey May Fowles, Lindsay Gates-Markel, and many other fantastic writers. We think you’ll like it.

That’s us for now.

Happy reading,

your LF | BT crew

Happy April! I’m back in Oakland after a week on the East Coast and have a few updates to share with you:

1) I read two excerpts from UMDC at the Boston Public Library on April 7th. Thank you to everyone who came out (despite the rain) to support me! If you weren’t able to make it, here is a short recap from the library’s website:

http://www.bpl.org/press/2016/04/08/quincy-carroll-author-of-up-to-the-mountains-and-down-to-the-countryside-brings-a-captive-audience-to-rural-china/

2) UMDC recently won the Silver Medal for Contemporary Fiction in the IPPY Book Award Competition! First established in 1996, the IPPYs are considered one of the highest honors for books published by independent authors:

http://www.independentpublisher.com/article.php?page=2045&urltitle=2016%20Independent%20Publisher%20Book%20Awards%20Results

3) WorldTeach, the program through which I volunteered in China, has agreed to purchase a copy of UMDC for each of their teachers in 2016! Applications are still open, so if you are interested in living/working abroad, check out their website:

http://www.worldteach.org/programs/china/

That’s all for now! If you could mention the book to 1 person this week, I’d really appreciate it. Also, here are the Amazon and Goodreads pages for the book, if you have time to leave a review. Thanks for your continued support!

Quincy

So I just got an email from Inkshares, letting me know Deus Hex Machina was selected as this month’s CEO Syndicate pick!  Alluva sudden we’ve blown past 200 orders, and are almost to 220!  It’s amazing!

ONE GOAL DOWN!!  THANK YOU

So we JUST hit the quill goal which means the book will be published it will get an ISBN and it will be real honest book!

You all are the best. I’m so excited to get this story into people’s hands and I can’t thank you enough.

ONWARD to the full goal!

So we’re a third of the way to the full publishing goal. If we get 750 pre-orders we not only get published but get a full edit and polish, professional type people sweating over the cover art and armies of marketing people planning spectacular things including author events, bookstore placement and more!

So if you can, please spread the word. In fact, mathematically speaking, if each of you convince two other people to preorder, we would be guaranteed to get the full publishing goal. It’s science!

In celebration of hitting this first goal I’m adding a new sample chapter for you to take a look at. I hope you enjoy!

Tom