12 Days left....

Well I finished going through my first three chapters with the help of the beta read critique offered by M. Robert Randolph, thank you sir, and not a lot has changed. I reworded a few things and adjusted some stuff but overall I was primarily fixing some spelling errors here and there. They might be a bit of an info dump but I’m just not sure how to pick apart all of those threads, which come together later, and re-implement them somewhere else so that everything’s in place before the climax. If you’re a fan of Techno-Thrillers, from  Clancy or Coonts, that was really the style and structure I’m working towards.

We’re into the last two weeks of the campaign and still sitting at 11 orders. If you really have any interest in reading this thing now is the time to order and, even if you don’t plan on reading it, kick in for an E-Book and just let it sit on the website.

There is one thing I’d love to see Inkshares do and that is to create an option similar to the multiple purchase option but instead of multiple physical copies of the book you’re just kicking in extra money to help the project along. Maybe this could be for someone who wants only one physical copy of the book but wants to help out even more than the preorder price, or perhaps an author knows somebody who’s willing to help out monetarily but has no plans to read it.

Anyway, talk to you later.

Well we’re down to 22 days left in the campaign, I know one of my last updates I put in the wrong number because I’m an idiot. The project is still sitting at 11 orders and the jig is up at the end of this month so get those orders in if you want to see this thing get printed.

Things are looking pretty dire considering there’s less than a month to go and I haven’t even hit triple digit order numbers yet. If Battle Flag fails to fund I’m going to step back and reevaluate my plans for getting the book printed. I will undoubtedly clear the project page of all of it’s chapters and maybe just leave some little note about it. I might take the book and publish through Amazon or Createspace if it doesn’t fund here. I may also take The Agoge and shop it around to agents and then, if I’m successful with it, circle back around and use what clout I have to get Battle Flag printed.

Whatever happens, after 22 days, I’m going to be really busy either working within Inkshares getting the book finished up for publication or working outside of it to get the book setup somewhere else. I’ve spent a lot of time trying to make this work at Inkshares and it’s time to stop spinning my wheels on this.

45 days and counting.

I just finished up the new edit of Chapter 1 on Thursday and was going to post it and the new version of the Prologue right away but M. Robert Randolph offered to do a beta and critique read on my first three chapters, so with his input I’m going to take another look before I put them up for reading.

The revision was originally motivated by a massive info dump I had in Chapter 1. It was one of those whimsy things that, even as I wrote it those many years ago, I knew it was too damn much. Part of it was just amateurish desire to copyright as many things as I possibly could but I also just got totally lost in the visuals of it all and my world took me for a ride.

What I didn’t remember was that I had already gone through and eliminated the dump before I posted those chapters to Inkshares in the first place, so not a lot changed in the revision. But now I’ve got another point of view to take advice from and I want to take another look.

Thanks again to Mr. Randolph for the critique and you should probably go check out his book The Dark Mountain. I didn’t back it to trade preorders, I backed it because it sounds kind of unusual and I really want to see how it goes.

Talk to you later!