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The moment of truth!
Tonight I put 100 names of those who pre-ordered copies 105-204 of Blood Dawn in a blue wizard's hat and drew one name from it. You can watch a short clip on Vine to see the process if you're curious:
You can't quite see the name (this was my second Vine video to date and I'm still trying to get the knack of balancing out 6 seconds of footage), so I hope you all trust me.
Nonetheless...
It was a DRAGON! Congratulations Lisa Hall, whose dragon name is Lahalazar.
Thank you again to everyone for believing in this book. Stay tuned for more to come, including an exciting announcement about another opportunity as we look ahead to the next milestone.
It's official!
Thanks to the generous, brilliant Inkshares team (a special thank you to Jeremy Thomas), the new, higher rank of DRAGON has been created for Blood Dawn backers! Check it out:
This means if you visit my Blood Dawn page, you'll see the option there to become a DRAGON backer. In addition to what GOD-KING backers (3 copies) get, DRAGON backers will get a t-shirt with the Blood Dawn dragon logo on it (if we reach the fundraising goal), and I'll name one of the dragons in my story world after them, in the Em-Makkar language.
And guess what? I already have my FIRST DRAGON. (Thank you Patrick Jamison, whose dragon name is Patazamazzon). While I'm talking about Pat here, please do go and check out Patrick's great book idea for The Stones of Ragnarok. It makes me think of a James Rollins thriller -- a modern doomsday story rooted in ancient Viking history. I can't wait to see this book go live, and would love to see Pat gain more attention as he's new to Inkshares.
You'll also see that the DRAGON rank has been added above GOD-KING, with Pat's avatar daring anyone else to step up and start a fire-war:
Aint it awesome? So, if you are super enthusiastic about this book and want to breathe not just life, but fire into it, then why not order 7 copies and have the honor of knowing you've got a dragon name lurking in my mythology file, ready for use when the story calls for it? You'll have 6 extra copies of Blood Dawn to pass around to your friends, to help spread the word like wildfire...er, I mean dragonfire.
