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@Evan Graham Great question. If you’re an Inkvenger and don’t have another book (except for Too Many Controllers) in production, we’ll give you a one-time exception to enter the contest if you’re interested.
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    Yeah, @johnsoncm , It’s crowd funding. Before you crowd fund, you’ve got to have your own platform and do your own legwork. 70% of your book funding needs to come from your own resources easily right now. 

    I know it’s the harsh truth, what @Ricardo Henriquez is saying has merit. 

    As part of what you are doing in crowd funding is selling yourself and practicing your self promotion skills. 

    Syndicate backing isn’t a matter, or a metric, of if a book will sell or not. That’s more a matter of community engagement. Authors who are helpful to the community, will be picked up by Syndicates more than anything else.

    Which, does increase the chance the book will fund. But you’ve still gotta bring your own readers to the table. 

    There just simply aren’t enough authors to reliably fund a book from someone else on the website. I could go further into some tactics and some math behind stuff. 

    One thing to do: Is recruit people who want to support as readers, to join syndicates. Although that’s a hard sell because basically you are paying a lot of money for years before you get a product. 

    However just so you know: Inkshares Nirvana moment is when they have enough readers on the site where it’s easier to fund, and they are indeed working on that behind the scenes. It’s just going to take years for that kind of traction to build up. 

    They do, however, come. I’ve got 5 people who are just avid readers that stalk a lot of books on here. I brought them to Inkshares with me. Now imagine if every other author had 1-2. 

    Eventually...
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      Amanda Orneck liked the forum thread, Non-public project behaviour
      I wanted to check the behaviour regarding projects that "have not been made public yet."

      I’ve hit this a couple of times when looking at the profiles of people who have followed me - I go to look at their own books only to receive the "this book has not been made public yet" message.  See below:

      Looking at the writer’s profile I see a link to their draft book:
      I click on the book to check it out and bounce to the home page with this banner message:


      My question is:

      If a book hasn’t been made public yet by the author, is it ok for it to show up in the authors list of books (is that desired behaviour)?

      If the answer to (1) above is yes, then wouldn’t it be a better user experience to provide an indication on the author’s profile page that the book isn’t public and prevent the user from clicking on it in the first place?
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        Congrats on funding!
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          Hey everybody!  I didn’t expect to be saying this for at least another 3-4 months, but Exile, Magus is live and in funding mode!  When I saw the G&S contest announcement, it was too good of an opportunity for me to pass up.  I’m now in that somewhat panicky "I wasn’t ready for this" first day of campaign launch mode.  Its both an incredibly nervous and highly energized feeling.  I’ve already gotten a pretty good start, so now its just up to me to keep up the momentum.  I’m hoping you’ll join me in that endeavor as well.  That’s all I’ve got for now, expect to hear from me every Tuesday or Thursday from now until the end of this contest with updates on our progress as well as other fun "things" I’ve been doing my best to save up to share with you all.

          As always, thanks for your time, support, and keep reading!
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            It still hasn’t quite sunk in yet, but as of today I am a published author.

            Almost a year after I first started pestering people with buymybookbuymybookifyou’rereallymyfriendyou’llbymybook harassment, it’s finally out.  If you’re reading this, you’ve already gotten your copy (I hope!), but now they’re available online at Amazon, B&N and others, and at dozens of independent bookstores all around the country.  

            Thank you so much.

            The amount of effort that goes into publishing a book is truly awe inspiring.  My editors Kiele Raymond and Michael Trudeau transformed some mediocre writing into the polished manuscript you received this past month.  I’m beyond over-the-moon about the cover Elyse Lyons produced for me, and Emily Zach and the rest of the production team at Girl Friday was professional 100%.

            Meanwhile, at Inkshares, my marketing manager Avalon has been working overtime getting me interviews, reviews, and my books in stores, while newly appointed CEO Adam Gomolin has been in overdrive on the derivative properties side.

            And then there are the Nerdist folks, who not only sponsored the contest in the first place, making this whole thing possible, but who also treated me like a real Author when I visited them at Comic Con in San Diego.

            Thank you all for your tireless work to make this project as successful as possible.

            Now, some news:

            Monday night I was featured on The 207, a Portland and Bangor local features show on NBC.  The boys from Bull Moose were extremely kind in their promotion of my novel.

            Today I woke up to a Bangor Daily News review, which was similarly positive.

            I’m also looking at scheduling book signing events around the Bangor area over the next several weeks.  Check out my Facebook page to stay current!

            Lastly, in case you missed it, I’ve got a Comic Con recap on my blog, which you can find here.

            So that’s pretty much it.  

            I can say thank you enough
            Dave

            PS: Leave reviews!!!!!!!!!!111

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