Hey everyone! Hope you all had a great New Years! Was I the only Californian that didn't go to Tahoe? My Facebook feed was filled with people hitting the slopes and proposing to their GF/BF's on the frozen lake. Felt like the nerdy kid that wasn't invited too the party... ... ... Who was home writing Science-Fiction...  /sigh

ANYWAYS! Just wanted to thank everyone whose already grabbed a copy of the book and remind everyone who hasn't yet that there are only 11 days left in the Sword and Laser competition. I'm hoping we can still place in the top ten so we can make our March release date!

For those of you who haven't seen it yet check out our "Directors" video here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDfRsDTH9EQ

Now onward too the new year!

My dear Readerly Friends:

Fist, and most important: I hope you are looking forward to a peaceful and productive New Year.

Second and most exciting: We are very close! As of the moment I write this update, we need only 97 pre-orders to get to publication. I would love for the book to come out during 2016, twenty years after Miriam's House first opened its doors to Washington, DC's homeless women with AIDS.

So my goal is to get those 97 orders by the end of January. How?

1. The largest clinic in Washington, DC (Whitman-Walker Health) is holding a book event for me on January 19.

2. Whoever pre-orders during January 2016 will receive this mug (shipped when the book is published, one mug per order):

3. Tell your friends! Share this update on facebook and twitter and by email.

4. You have already pre-ordered, but maybe you'd like an excuse to get this lovely mug ... or make it a gift package (mug and book) to a family member, friend or colleague. In either case, pre-order another copy!

As always, thank you. 

Carol

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Hello everyone, I hope you all had a fantastic New Years. I had the good fortune of spending the holidays up in Toronto, Canada, at the Royal York! 

I just wanted to post a quick update to let everyone know that I've added several new chapters to the Inkshares page for The Children of the Forest. A 7th chapter will be available later tonight, and the 8th will be released on Monday morning.

I'm very happy with the current draft of the novel, and progress has been moving at quite a lovely pace. I also did a short interview on Off-Beat Cinema this past week, and hope to have the clip up on my page shortly!

Looking forward, we are currently maintaining a competitive placement in the S&L contest, and just a couple pre-orders could easily turn the tide against me, or in my favor. If anyone has yet to pre-order a copy of my book, I'm begging you to jump on the bandwagon now and get yourself a copy (or 10) as there are only two weeks left before the end of the 2nd S&L contest!

That's pretty much it for now, I'll post another short update once I've added the new chapters (7+8) to the page! Thanks everyone for all your support, here's to another fabulous year ~

We did it! We hit 70 orders!  Time for the next raffle! *Cracks knuckles and pulls out the random number generator.*

Happy New Years everyone! 2016 has begun. Next week I have my Inkshares kick off meeting to begin production on the Seventh Age Dawn. So, there is that. I'm going to be at Midwinter Gaming Convention up in Milwaukee on the weekend of Jan 16th. Peddling my wares and trying to get some gaming in. If anyone wants to meet up, drop me a line on twitter if you are in the area. 

Lastly: Today I begin trying to define the sequel. The Seventh Age: Rise of Dystopia into to 15 words so I can start building my outlines. If you curious how I start a book, it works something like this: I start off with 15 words regarding what the story is about. (This is actually really damn hard). I then make those 15 words into 5 sentences, followed by taking each of those 5 sentences into a paragraph. Finally each paragraph ends up as it's own page. That's how I start off building my outline. Today... I need to do this. 

So here is where I ask for help: I LOVE music, and it's my largest inspiration for writing. Tweet me @crankybolt for any music that reminds you of the cyberpunk or techno-thriller music. I'll be assembling a playlist all month as I dabble with the outline. 

I'm really curious to see what some of you other authors and Seventh Age Followers come up with in regards to music. Toss your best at me :)

Happy New Year Machiners! 

Based on my map of where pre-orders come from, some of my wonderful supporters are definitely celebrating already. To those all over, have fun tonight, and be safe.

A couple of real quick hits on this 2016 New Year's Eve:

The support the last few days has been tremendous. I cannot thank all of the new followers enough for getting onboard. Monday we hit 100 readers and tonight we may hit 140. That's incredible! 

I had a funny thought after thinking about this today. I hope you all know this book basically has only one character! Well, our protagonist talks about one other important character. For those who haven't read, I won't give it away...

There was a new Inkshares blog post today. Some of the folks in the Sword & Laser contest provided their "best reads" of 2015. Definitely cool to see what everyone is reading. The novels I touched on weren't actually written this year, but to me, they are books worth visiting time and again.

I know I'm behind on the raffle game. At some point in the New Year, I will remedy that. Guaranteed.

Lastly, there is a fun new page on Facebook for The Last Machine. Check it out and Like when you have a moment: https://www.facebook.com/3BillionYears/

And I'll leave you with this brand new, hot off the presses, super rad artwork from Jack Katz of The Last Machine and that "other character." Enjoy, Happy New Year!

Happy New Year humans!

I'm feeling compelled to say something poignant or inspiring, but having been working on character sheets for most of my free time during this break has somehow dampened my abilities.

So, I shall just say this... make it a good one.

LLAP \V/,