James Rasile liked an update for Sync City

Greetings Jackolytes,

The copy edited version of Sync City has spent a couple of weeks back at the mothership getting its penultimate mission directives before heading back off to Girl Friday Productions to get fully beaten into shape! And this is good. This means we are making distinct progress toward bringing Jack and his ride into your hands.

There are still a number of technical areas to deal with – the cover for example – before its ultimate completion. But for now, it’s onto the marketing stage. The goal here is to get Jack and Sync City into as many hands as possible on launch day. And why do you want this? Easy. So you can look cool at parties. When some drops the fact that they have just purchased the outstanding Sync City, you can casually say “Sure, I know it. I went to school/uni/ pubs/worked/ played sport/chatted/emailed/Facebooked/Tweeted (delete as applicable) with the author. I was there from the beginning.” Automatic kudos!

With this in mind, I’d love it if you can spread the word to friends and family and have them jump on board – and who doesn’t like having cool friends and family. To do this, you need to send them to this link and have them hit pre-order (some supervision may be required). If you yourself haven’t pre-ordered, then now is the time! Sync City and a lifetime of awesomeness awaits!

Cheers,

Peter

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    As an incentive, all those who preorder my novel  I’m going to gift you my Amazon E-book In A World of Darkness: The Yonuh Trilogy as my way of saying thanks for supporting my campaign. I will require your email address so I can send you a copy. If you already have a copy, I can compensate this with a gift card! I’m hoping that by doing this, I can get some much needed reviews on Amazon. Who knows, I may have the second book uploaded soon and I may gift it as well! So here’s to hoping preorders roll in and Yonuh books roll out
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      James Rasile liked the forum thread, Geek N Sundry Contest Entrants: Crowd Funding Guide!
      Greetings everyone! 

      I’m Rick, and I love crowd funding and contests. Since all of you are entering this Fantasy contest (my genre of choice) and I’m going to end up bankrupt in the near future. I figured I’d give you some quick pointers on how to get started on the prospect of crowd funding. Because for many, you’ll quickly find it’s more daunting than you realize. 

      1. Contests are the best way to drive orders to your book because they provide a sense of urgency. ~Make sure you tell people you are in a contest, it’s a big deal, the top 3 get published and be excited. 

      2. In order to crowd fund, you need a crowd. This one is one I often see overlooked. Even if your crowd is 10 people, that’s fine, get those 10 people before you pitch strangers. There is this farmers market theory of kale thing that John Olivir did and it’s totally true. Nobody will buy the one, sad, lonely piece of kale. But that same kale with 10 more people behind it giving it a thumbs up! Perfect.  Basically, before you go mass pitching to anyone who will listen: Get your immediate 100% surefires to order. Spend that time polishing your campaign page. 

      3. Use Video. @Joseph Asphahani ran a fantastic campaign using video updates. Short, simple, and sweet. @Tal M. Klein went and had some amazing muppet ad’s and he was the prior Geek N Sundry contest winner. 

      4. Don’t be afraid to ask people to support yourself, not your book. It’s a small division, but it makes a big deal. Ask people to help support you get published and back that dream. It will take 2 years before they have a book and there is a lot of editing that goes into it. Your story may look completely different, so focus instead on your idea, and who you are and why it’s important to you. 

      5. Focus on your own extended networks, family, and friends first, then turn your attention to crowds and other Inkshare authors. Yes, there is a community here, and everyone is trying to get their books funded. At some point, it’s about playing match maker and cross pollination of reader bases. That is a good and healthy thing. It’s okay to market each others books to your crowd. That’s why you knock your people out of the way first. Then you can help others and others can help you. 

      6. Passive media: Ads, cards, fliers, these things help you build your author brand and focus your vision, but they don’t help with crowd funding in a contest. They won’t net you any sales. What they will do: Is polish your writer brain into a fine-tuned 15 second selling machine. 


      So, those are some of my quick tips. Inkshares had blogged about it before: and Tal Klein wrote his tips. I’m willing to help and offer advice to anyone, just send me a PM. 

      ~Rick Heinz
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        James Rasile liked an update for The Knight Proper

        Hello, friends!

        Just a quick update to let you know that if you ordered a paperback, those will be shipped to you within the next two weeks and for e-books, those will be made available as well in short time.

        For our local Southern California peeps, we’ll be hosting our book release/signing party at the Barnes & Noble in Chino Hills, on Saturday, August 13, from 2 pm to 4 pm - we’d love to see you there!   (Matt might or might not actually wear a FULL plate of armor... ok, probably not, but maybe Adam?)

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          James Rasile liked an update for The Punch Escrow

          Just a quick note to let you know that things with The Punch Escrow are progressing better than I ever imagined. This book is really coming into its own.

          The third draft of the manuscript should be complete in the next 6 weeks. Which would keep us on an early 2017 publish schedule. I am looking for fresh beta readers, so if you’re at all curious about the adventures of Joel Byram from the 25th Century, please get in touch.

          I’ve submitted the final draft of my short story Morcom is here. to the Too Many Controllers anthology organizers. I will have more information on its publication date sometime later in the month, I believe.

          Also, if you’re a size XL or L men’s shirt size, send me a message. I’ve uncovered a few extra The Punch Escrow shirts. First come, first serve.


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            James Rasile liked an update for Sparked
            Hello Inkshares community!

            Thanks to those of you who reached out offering to video yourselves answering the question "What’s the meanest thing another girl ever did to you?" or "What’s the meanest thing you ever did to another girl?" We are still waiting for any videos that people could make and send (basically a super short selfie-video) so if you meant to make one and didn’t get around to it, there’s still time! (Hint, hint--pretty please?!?) I notice that people are a lot more forthcoming in answering the question about others being mean to them, less willing to cop up to having been mean themselves. Or maybe we’re all just an exceptionally nice group of humans. (Well, I know that’s true...)

            We have a new advice column for writers up today that I’m particularly fond of. "Dear ’Lena" recently received this question from a reader: "What’s the best writing advice that you ever received? The worst?" It was intriguingly open ended, and got Helena and me reminiscing about our early writing classes and the comedy and drama therein. Turns out we both had extremely charismatic (almost cult-like) teachers who dispensed the same pearl of wisdom. Here’s the link to the post in which we toss said pearl to you:

            http://bay-ata.com/sparked/blog/2016/08/02/whats-the-best-writing-advice-ever/

            "In my first college writing class, the professor said: “Write the book you want to read.” He had a sonorous voice and said everything with such gravitas that it seemed incredibly profound."

            Read on and find out more... If anyone wants to comment by sharing the best or worst writing advice that YOU received, I’d love to hear it!
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