Various and Sundry Updates - TWO WEEKS until LAUNCH Edition

Have you packed your bags for : AMOD Launch Party - Athens,GA - 4/5 - AVID BOOKSHOP? I’ll be the one dressed like this:

And now another great picture of me - to honor your support and sear your ocular nerve.

Greetings hexers,

I’m happy to say I was able to finish chapter 3 yesterday. I didn’t know it was finished yesterday, but I realized it this morning sitting down looking at how I’m planning things out. This means I will post this up for you today.  I’m sure you’re going to LOVE it.  

Chapter 3 sees the introduction of another major character that certain readers will be very interested in *cough* A.C. Weston *cough*. I am having a TON of fun destroying Orange County and rebuilding it. I only regret not being able to do my research in person. Instead I’m working from memory and from consultations with Professor Google. If anyone lives in Orange County and finds inconsistencies, please let me know. It’s best to change these things now before we get further down the story road.

Have fun learning more about Dax and Isidore!

Cheers, Amanda

  PS: Remember I’m still giving out prizes for referrals on my quest to get to #DHM750. Right now Joe Terzieva and Billy O’Keefe are leading the pack, and I know either one would look amazing in a Church of Technology pendant. I can’t wait to start giving these away! Join my Mech Crew today and start winning!

Hello true believers! Long time no spam.

 We assume that in the time since we last contacted you that you’ve been curled in the corner shouting “WHERE ARE NICK AND NOA?!?” or “WHAT IS EVEN HAPPENING WITH PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS FOR MULTIVERSE THEORY?!?” or “I’VE SOILED MYSELF AGAIN!”

Don’t worry. You can stop the hunger strikes, you can put down the gun and let the hostages go. We’re back. And we have a nice surprise for all of you.

COMING TO YOUR E-MAIL BOX THIS FRIDAY: The eBook edition of Practical Applications for Multiverse Theory.

That’s right! You can finally read the book! And if you want to all get together and start up a new religion where PAFMT is your Bible, we would love to serve as your prophets.

But for real, we’re both incredibly excited for you guys to read the book. And don’t worry, you’ll still be receiving your physical copy of the book when we get closer to the April 19th release date.

Now comes the important part. Once you read the book, please do us a huge favor and leave a review on Amazon, Goodreads, or anywhere else that allows customer reviews. As dumb as it may seem, online customer reviews are a huge part of getting stores to pay attention to our little book that could. Here are a couple to get you started:

PAFMT on Amazon 

PAFMT on Goodreads

If you’d like to post screengrabs of you receiving the advance ebook or pictures of you reading it on your favorite electronic reading device or just want to post about it in general on any social platforms, throw in #multiversebook so we can follow the action.

In the coming days/weeks, we’ll be releasing some promo videos for the book, as well as the details about our book launch event, so keep an eye out. 

For now, here is your reward for reading this whole e-mail, an unpurchased stock photo of a puppy reading a book:

Until next time,

Nick & Noa

Twitter:     @Nick_Scott      @OhNoaG

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NickAndNoa/?fref=ts

Top of the Evening to You, Space Crew!

First, a humungous congratulations to those who won the Nerdist contest. That would be Christopher Leone, Michael Haase, and Patrick Edwards. These guys not only have great-sounding stories, but they put in countless hours of marketing and pitching to get their books where they are today. Please consider supporting them if you haven’t already, because their books will definitely be released in the near future.

Where does that leave us? Let me break it down for you. 

First of all, thank you for being the most amazing space crew that’s ever existed. I hope to get around to thanking each of you personally once I’ve had a bit of time to recover from this chaos, but for every one of you who ordered, who pitched to your friends and family, who gave me encouragement along the way—thank you so much. You just may have been a glimmer of hope on a bad day or one of many reasons to smile on a great one. 

In the end we finished 6th. Which, out of  96 entries isn’t too shabby at all! I was extremely focused on the contest throughout this campaign, so I failed to explain the alternative routes. I’ll do that now. First, let’s feel good about how much we accomplished for a moment.

Now we go back to being regular Inkshares book-funders. Let me try to explain this as simply and eloquently as I can.

All the orders we’ve accumulated are going to stick around until May 5. On that date the total orders will be counted and one of three things will happen:

At 750 total orders (note: these do not have to be unique orders), the book will get the same fabulous treatment as the Nerdist contest would have provided. Full service editing, marketing, publishing, and distribution from Inkshares. This is the dream.

At 250 total orders (we’re extremely close already), we reach the "Quill goal". The book will be published via Inkshares with fewer of these fancy services. 

At less than 250 total orders we won’t be published on Inkshares and you’ll all be refunded. That doesn’t mean it’s the end of the road, but that we’ll need to look at alternate routes to get my writing into your hands. That said, I believe this to be a highly unlikely scenario. 

You can check the progress bar on the book page to see how we’re doing. This is us right now, at 199 total orders:

So what should you expect next? I’m gonna cut back on the daily spam until we get closer to the May deadline. It’s a bit much for me to keep up, and I have some "bigger picture" ideas of how to pull more people into the project. 

In the meantime you can definitely keep sharing The Traveller’s Cup with your friends, since reaching 750 won’t be easy. If you use the recommendation links on the book page you’ll earn Inkshares credits too, which will let you pick up other people’s books.

Our ship hasn’t quite reached its destination yet, but that’s okay. We’re still a crew. And thanks to your support in this contest, we’re several pixels closer to our goal. 

Heading into overdrive. Man your stations. And...we’re off!

Your-Inarticulately-Indebted-Space-Captain,
-AC