3 WEEKS AND 300 PRE-ORDERS TO GO - HELP SADIE REACH 1,000 PRE-ORDERS BY FEB. 29th!

Dear Sadie Supporters,

With your help, over 700 books have been pre-ordered - thank you! With only 21 days to go before our crowd funding deadline, please take a few minutes today to reach out to your family and friends across the country who may be interested in helping "Sadie McGrady, Leading Lady" become published and available via Amazon and bookstores nationwide. 

• We need 300 more pre-orders to reach our goal. 

• Each supporter can order up to 10 books for $10 each.
  

HOW YOU CAN HELP:

1. SEND AN E-MAIL to your friends, letting them know how much this project means to you. Ask them to pre-order and to help spread the word about our upcoming deadline within their own network of friends, teachers and librarians. Be sure to include the link to our project page for more details and ordering information.

2. SHARE OUR LINK ON FACEBOOK with a note about how excited you are to see a book like this one become published. 

3. SHARE OUR LINK ON TWITTER tagging people or groups with interest in books like ours. Be sure to tag @Vote4Sadie and ask your friends to follow along! #Vote4Sadie

LINK TO OUR INKSHARES PROJECT PAGE: https://www.inkshares.com/books/sadie-mcgrady-leading-lady

Stay tuned for more frequent updates as we near our crowd funding deadline. I will be working hard to spread the word and really appreciate you doing the same. Keep up the great work campaigning for "Sadie McGrady, Leading Lady!"

- Mary

P.S. If you haven’t checked out our Inkshares project page in awhile, scroll down to the full manuscript and look for new images from the book. More to come! 

Today I officially head into writing mode. I took a break from writing to compete to my fullest in the S&L contest, and when that didn’t pan out I sort of hit a writing slump. I talked with some writing friends over the weekend, had them look at the chapter I have posted for DHM, and received some excellent constructive criticism. Man, I forgot how much I miss writing workshops!

The result is that I have committed to a writing schedule, and spent the morning plotting out said schedule on my calendar. I should have the book finished by April.  It’s not quite a Nanowrimo schedule, but writing a scene a day for five days a week seems on paper pretty reasonable.

I have already promised to post chapter two for you fine folks, and I apologize that I didn’t get that finished in a timely fashion and posted. I will remedy that hopefully by the end of this week -- at least that is my hope.  I will probably also post Chapter 3 when I get to it, but this project isn’t going to lay all its cards on the table. We have to maintain our air of mystery, Isidore and I.

Deus Hex Machina is an experiment for me. Can I write in a different genre and have readers respond?  Can I translate what was originally a visual work to a purely written format? Can I really turn this noveling thing into a career? All these questions still rattle around in my brain. It will be interesting to see what happens as 2016 progresses and I write this thing. Hopefully only good will come of it.

Shameless preorder request incoming:

Everyone I’ve shared DHM with has responded positively, and that is wonderful. Speaking of wonderful, I should be receiving my shipment of books to sign this week (UPS says they are currently in Colorado -- I hope they get some time to play in the snow), which means I will get the chance to send out my backer contest rewards to the nearly dozen or so winners I’ve had so far.  I am only 1 order away from the next raffle, which means I am also only 161 orders away from Quill.  If you have followed DHM and enjoy what you read here, please consider backing the book. I will continue to give away books all the way through 750, and might start upping the ante as I get closer to June. Right now though, 250 is the first goal.

Know someone who likes scifi? Share the book with them, encourage them to order, and encourage them to share as well.  Together we can do this.