Hi everyone!

I hit 80 readers the other day, and that means another raffle. Feel free to watch my beautiful raffle video to find out if you’ve won, and hear about how I am raising the stakes a bit for future raffles when hitting major milestones.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7M4qdzVpSaU

Thanks for following, please consider pre-ordering if you haven’t already, and have a great day.

Take care!

We have us  a book, folks! Over the weekend pre-orders surpassed the 250 mark, and "Women Like Us" will become part of the Quill imprint. A most hearty thank you to everybody who supported this endeavor. It really means a lot. Of course it’s also a little scary -- now you’ll have an actual book in your hands, which means you’ll be reading it. Feel free to criticize, though. I have developed a very thick skin! While I’m not exactly sure of the timeline, the book will go through a short edit and design phase, and then it goes into production. I’ll update again when I know exactly when delivery will start to take place.  Thanks also to all those who participated in the somewhat kooky contests, and of course the winners -- CJ Dukes, who won the cool osoporto.com Surf/Swim mugs, Michael Scotti who took home the Beagle Freedom swag, Terry Lillienfeld, who snagged that sweet McCall’s Meat and Fish Company Gift Certificate, and Victoria Weaver, who won the chance to help design and place on my person the tattoo honoring our Derric of the Beagle Freedom Project!

Having had no experience running a crowd-funding campaign, this was certainly an educational experience with lots of ups and downs. But a shout-out to a few fellow Inkshares authors and their books for their encouragement and support seems in order too, including Matthew Sobin’s https://www.inkshares.com/books/the-last-machine-in-the-solar-system, Billy O’Keefe’s https://www.inkshares.com/books/these-are-my-friends-on-politics-0985, Amanda Ornecks https://www.inkshares.com/books/deus-hex-machina, Tony Valdez’s Dax Harrison https://www.inkshares.com/books/dax-harrison-2276 and Janna Grace’s https://www.inkshares.com/books/the-talkers-are-talking.Check out these books too. There are more of you guys who were a big help, and to all of you I offer most sincere thanks as well.

Honestly, it’s rather exhausting running one of these campaigns. So for a while I will be focusing on getting the book out and not doing the hard-sell (although of course sales are always good so don’t hesitate!) But once again, I truly thank you all for helping to make this happen.  

Ladies and gentlemen.

It is now week 2, and there are 50 of you. I feel encouraged by the support, but is it enough already with which to begin with the pre-orders? I don’t know ... what do you think?

There’s been a slight tweak to the title. "Murder at the Veteran’s Club" isn’t quite so snappy as "Murder at the Vet", but at least it looks less like a story about a murder in Herriot country. Which could be a good idea for a sequel, actually.

In the meantime, I’m very slowly doing revisions based on some thoughtful comments from Faith A.. The sample chapters have not been updated at this point; they will be updated when I’m through with revisions.

Keep watching this space, ladies and gentlemen.

Hi everybody,

Just a quick note to tell you I officially launched Champions of the Third Planet!  We are open for pre-orders as of this morning!

I also signed up for the new Nerdist contest on Inkshares, the theme of which is Space Opera, which is a very nice thing for this book.

Finally, I posted a tiny revision to the first chapter, and chapters 2 and 3 are going up very very soon. 

--Chris

P.S. For those of you who pitched me books, I’m sorry I haven’t been able to read them yet but I’m going to check them out tonight!

Who wants two new chapters this week???

Look what got a temporary cover (only because I don't have the rights to the picture) and a title!!! Next up: a blurb. Should have a rough one in a month or so, and I'm hoping to start writing the official draft (as I already have random scenes and a sketchy summary) in the summer! I'd love to have at least 100 followers by then, so please rec this to anyone who might be interested!

I’m so excited to announce that The Talkers are Talking has met its Quill goal and will become a part of the collection!!  I just want to say thank you to all of you lovely, wonderful, generous and supportive readers.  I couldn’t have done it without you, and now as I start the long road to publication, I promise to do whatever it takes to make Talkers the best it can be. More updates to follow (also in regards to Breaking the Bechdel Syndicate- hell yea people, we are really making a formidable group against manic pixie dream girls and other depth-less female character tropes), but for now, thank you, thank you.

I hadn't intended to send out an update today, but something occurred to me.  I've been doing most of my posting about potential plans for the future of Exile, Magus over on a Goodreads forum which not all of you may have been to.  With that in mind and me still wanting as much feedback as possible from all of you I figured that I would share a link to the group:  https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/17928984-ended-but-regrouping-let-s-get-exile-magus-into-quill

That's all I've got for today.  Next Sunday I'll have a full book recommendation update.  Enjoy the rest of your day and the week to follow.