Hey friends!
Did everyone have a great Saturday? I did! I was running back and forth between participating in the Inkshares Review-A-Thon, running errands, and deep cleaning the apartment for an ugly sweater Christmas party!
Needless to say, it was a busy day. But a fun one! And unfortunately, I didn't get to leave nearly as many reviews for my fellow authors as I wanted to, so I will most definitely be making up for that this week.
I DID however join in for JF Dubeau & Paul Inman's livestream broadcast. Many thanks to them, the other participating authors, and a massive thanks to A.C. Weston as well, the overworked mastermind behind this amazing event. You can watch the full video HERE. The Dax Harrison live-reading antics begin around 51:00, but I encourage you to watch the full stream if you have a chance. There are some great interviews with multiple authors and Inkshares co-founder Adam Gomolin!
I have yet to watch the replay of the live-reading myself, but apparently we must have done something right! Dax scored 12 more orders yesterday, and 4 today! I also took the opportunity last night to bug a few folks at the Christmas party. *mwah ha ha ha!*
Let's take a look at the countdown: 6 days left, 22 orders to go!
Oh, we've got this. We've SO got this! There's some more good stuff brewing at Camp Dax for this final week. Stay tuned!
-Tony
P.S.: I know I'm a bit behind on the latest mug giveaways. After this final push, I will get caught up, probably in one big grand finale video. See ya soon! :)
Good morning everyone!
Writing is one of the ways I interpret life. I need it to help me figure out how to exist in a world filled with horrible things and still feel hope. I had your garden-variety shitty childhood, and stories were always an escape - both reading and writing them helped me make it to adulthood.
I'm not interested in convincing comfortable people how "dark and gritty" life can really be. Those kinds of stories are fine for whoever wants to read and write them, but a lot of us already know. We need to know whether or not the darkness and grit are worth it.
Stories help me survive, and I like to think maybe someday something I write could help someone else survive, too.
As for this book, I like adventure and angst and love and heroics, and I don't just want to consume these kinds of stories; I want to create them.
In the most general sense, I'm working out my understanding of how justice and mercy might exist in tension in a world where everyone is flawed, and everyone wants forgiveness. My faith as a Christian informs my exploration of justice and mercy, but I'm not writing an allegory or trying to indoctrinate anyone. (Unless you count writing multiple complex, realistic women as feminist indoctrination, in which case... yeah.)
I'm interested in exploring service, humility, and self-sacrifice as the foundations of leadership.
I'm interested in exploring power and injustice, recovery from trauma, and the meaning of beauty.
I'm interested in exploring community versus the individual, identity formation, and the definition of family.
Also, I want to make spaceships explode!