Well it’s over. Thanks again to the folks that ordered, I guess I just couldn’t pull enough people together to make this thin happen at Inkshares. It sucks that it failed but it’s not the first time. So I’m moving on to see what agents are out there that might be interested in it. I did this before I came to Inkshares so I need find my old agent list so that I don’t double up my submissions on this next run. Not to mention that Battle Flag isn’t the only finished project I have ready to go. The Agoge is still hanging around Inkshares and if it shows some good traction here I’ll sell it here, so you might want to give it a look in. With all the work I’ve been doing on getting Battle Flag preorders I haven’t been able to give The Agoge much of a push.

Battle Flag likewise isn’t going to go away in an instant. I’m going to dial back the sample chapters and keep an eye on it while I look into my other options for publishing it. I’ve also got some new short stories coming down the pipeline that I’d like to get into one of the Sci-Fi mags out there.

Anyway, I’ll send out another message if something big happens with Battle Flag, like drawing in three hundred followers in a few months or something.

Thanks!

Well this is it. The campaign ends this coming Friday and it doesn’t look like we’re gonna make it.

I want to send out a special thanks to my sister Michelle and to Julianne Fleming for ordering multiple copies to help me out. Thanks also goes out to Kyle Cowan, Ryne Drogemuller, M. Robert Randolph, J. Graham Jones, and David Byrne for putting in orders. They constitute everyone who did order and I really appreciate the support.

Barring some monumental miracle, Battle Flag most definitely is not going to reach even the Quill goal, so it’s time to reassess my options. From the look of things I don’t think I have the social media presence to really make a campaign like this work. So what I am going to do, after the campaign officially ends, is cut back the sample chapters to just the Prologue and 1-3. Then I am going to take a look at making another run at traditional publishing or sending The Agoge out to agents and come back around to this later. Maybe I’ll do both and maximize my chances of getting an agent for at least one of my finished projects.

Thanks to everyone who has followed me through this and I hope that one day, if you see a copy of Battle Flag on the shelf at the bookstore, you’ll pick it up and check out the other half of the story.

I don’t know if I’ll do another update before the end of the campaign but we’ll see.