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The Geek & Sundry fantasy contest ends on November 1st. Eek! Though Witherfist is a good 100 readers shy of reaching the top 3 - and the prize of guaranteed full publication from Inkshares - I am so thrilled and humbled by the amount of support the book has received.  While the contest is active, I want to push the book as high as possible in the top 10.  At the time of writing, Witherfist is tantalisingly close to the number 7 spot in the top 10, thanks in part to all of the new readers who have joined the campaign this week.  

I shared in a previous update some work in progress art, and now I’m happy to present the finished piece. Here is Karaben the Imperial interogator in all her glory. 

~ Jenny

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    Craig A. Munro liked an update for The Living God

    Happy Friday!!

    I am super, super excited to tell you guys that The Living God met it’s Quill Goal with 252 orders! My brain still finds it too good to be true and I have a hard time getting the words into my mind much less out of my mouth, but... The Living God will be published!

    We didn’t win the Geek & Sundry Fantasy Contest, and we have yet to reach the 750 mark, so it won’t be getting mass-distribution or marketing, but it will be published. If it happens to reach the 750 mark, that would be amazing, but I’m perfectly happy with limited distribution.  

    I’ve spent most of my private and professional life helping people make their dreams come true, often putting my own on hold for their sake. I just love helping people, and it brings me joy. But, at the end of last year I made a promise to myself to finally put one of my dreams first. I cannot express to you what it means to me to be able to say that I finally accomplished a goal I’ve dreamed about since I realized I loved storytelling so much. I have you guys to thank for that.

    The Living God is going to go through some heavy content and copy editing in the next month, and the campaign isn’t over until December. This gives me some time to try and get to 750, but I’ll be honest with you... I don’t know that many people. I could use your help on that front. If you could pass the word on, share it with others and encourage others to grab their copy, I’d greatly appreciate it. 

    Thank you for all your support and for helping a dream come true. 
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      Craig A. Munro liked an update for The Catcher’s Trap

      Dear Friends

      What better day to release The Catcher’s Trap e-book than the first day of Halloween weekend!

      This afternoon you will receive an e-mail from inkshares with a link and instructions to download your digital copy of The Catcher’s Trap. Fear not, if you purchased a physical copy you will receive yours very soon. The e-book is just a nice perk Inkshares offers to their readers so you can have access to your books on the go.

      You all have done so much for me already, but I have to be shameless and ask you for more. Getting reviews on Amazon, Barnes and Noble and Goodreads is key for a book to succeed. There is, actually, a magic number: 100

      Books with over 100 reviews are featured more prominently on Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Visibility is key when you are a new author trying to make a splash in an industry that releases over 3,000 books a day.

      Please follow the links and leave an honest review. Seriously, be honest. If you love The Catcher’s Trap as much as you love your mama, then leave a five stars review, but if not 4 or 3 are perfectly fine. A book with all five stars reviews looks fishy to readers.

      Goodreads

      Barnes and Noble

      Amazon

      Finally, don’t forget to join me on Thursday, November 10th, at 6 PM at North Haven Barnes and Noble, to celebrate the release of The Catcher’s Trap.

      You can RSVP here.

      Have a thrilling weekend!


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        Craig A. Munro liked an update for Ghosts of War

        It’s Friday, Friday....Gotta get down on...

        No? Okay...sorry.

        Things were a bit slow this week since I was under the weather for most of it, but I made some good progress regardless:

        For weeks I’ve been talking about chapters 23 & 26, with chapter 26 being the most important one of them all. Well, it’s actually been that long since I’d looked at them that I didn’t realise I had it the wrong way around. No matter. Chapter 26 is now done and chapter 23 (the important one) is well on its way.

        In fact, it’s turning out like it might be quite long. My outline for Chapter 23 is 2,647 words long. So far, I have turned 693 words of that into 2,418 words. so yeah...it might be a doozy, but a worthwhile one.

        We’ll find out this week though, since this week’s goal is: Finish Chapter 23 (and thus the first draft).

         

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          Craig A. Munro liked an update for APEX

          Dearest Readers,

          Thank you all so much for your fantastic support the past two weeks. You are amazing! We’ve slowly, slowly inched up in the standings and are now in third place by several pre-orders, but there’s still a week to go, and we can’t be complacent. Right now, it’s more important than ever to get those last minute pre-orders to ensure that I’m able to publish my book and provide everyone their copy. It would be so disappointing to work this hard only to lose out in the last moment and have to refund everyone’s money.

          Please try to get ONE additional person, maybe your significant other, parent, or child, to pre-order a copy TODAY using their email and username. The scoring in the contest is based on the number of unique readers, not total sales. Every single sale we can bring in makes a huge difference, as the sales gap between 1st through 4th places in the contest is only about 20 pre-orders.

          One more week of focus on this contest, and then I’ll get back to writing in earnest to polish the second draft of APEX and get it to the editors for a thorough review! 

          Also, I want to make a shout out for @John Dennehy, author of Illegal. He achieved 750 pre-orders and was all set for getting his book published when there was a glitch, and Inkshares issued a refund to everyone! :( Now, it appears there’s some confusion about whether or not he’ll be able to get all of his pre-orders back. Please consider purchasing a copy of his excellent memoir to help him recover from this tragedy.

          Thanks, Debbie
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            Craig A. Munro liked an update for Illegal

            All of you have received an email from Inkshares this week informing you of a refund for ILLEGAL. It was sent out in error. I’ve been struggling to figure out what is going on and how this will be fixed and I wish I could write and tell you what will happen but I can’t. Basically the Inkshares team says they don’t know what triggered the mass refund but they can recharge credit cards and get those orders back. However, they do not want to re-issue orders that used credits--when the campaign began the platform gave you credits to encourage participation and they have since discontinued that practice. This seems unfair to me and I’m trying to reach out to them to come up with a better resolution. I don’t know what that will be but I’m also not sure how long it will take to figure out and I know many people were confused and curious about what was happening and I wanted to be transparent and share all I know. As you can imagine this is a very frustrating situation for me and I appreciate your patience and support, probably more now than ever. 

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              Dear friends and followers,

              I have recently heard rumours of orders being made but not going through. So, here’s an important announcement: I ALWAYS THANK EACH AND EVERY READER FOR THEIR ORDERS WHEN I SEE THOSE ORDERS COME IN. I usually do this through e-mail within twenty-four hours; if I’m in conversation with you at the time, I’ll thank you there and specifically say that I saw the order come in--especially if I’ve previously thanked you for expressing an intent to order.

              IF YOU DO NOT RECEIVE A THANK YOU FROM ME, THAT MEANS SOMETHING IS DREADFULLY WRONG.

              Or it might mean that I’m out of town and have no access to the internet, but that’s a vanishingly rare occurrence. I’ll acknowledge your order and thank you for it as soon as I possibly can.

              Now that’s out of the way, let’s look at the book again. I’ve got another character to introduce: Inspector Horatio Parker, the policeman assigned to the case.

              Until next time, have fun, and keep reading.

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