Hello Friends

This is a special update to talk about someone other than me.

There’s a project that’s nearing its funding goal that I’d like to bring your attention to. It still needs a little over 125 pre-orders to get full funding on Inkshares. I think it’s worth your attention and by supporting it you also get awesome perks! (read till the end to find out)

A God in the Shed by J-F Dubeau is a Fantasy/Horror story set in the forgettable small village of St-Ferdinand, in the Eastern Townships of Quebec. The villagers have been hiding terrible secret for generations, but when their mysterious captive escapes but gets inadvertently trapped in the McKenzy’s backyard shed, it’s up to the Venus and her friends to figure out how to dispose of this terrible and malevolent burden; an Old God of hate and death.

You can find out more about this dark and beautiful, read sample chapters, reviews and pre-order you copy of A God in the Shed here

You can listen to the prologue as read by Ageless author Paul Inman here

 Need more incentive?

1. Each pre-order enters you into the ‘I want to kill a reader’ raffle. The winner will have his name and likeness used in the book as a minor character that gets killed off. The author will work with the winner to find the appropriate means of demise to satisfy both the winner and the story.
2. Each physical copy of A God in the Shed will be signed and numbered as an exclusive first edition item.
3. Free, exclusive A God in the Shed bookmarks will be included with the physical copies and mailed to eBook supporters.
4.  Orders of three or more copies guarantees your name to appear in the Patrons list printed at the end of the book.
5. You get to enjoy the satisfaction and pride at having supported both art and literature.

I encourage you to support a great author while you enjoy a great book

Have a fantastic Week!

I won’t take much of your time. Just felt like celebrating with the people most responsible for this (after the staff from Inkshares) :

Let’s keep on trucking guys and gals and creatures from beyond the veil. Today, just today, I feel like there’s nothing that can stop us.

JF

  All, thank you for the support. Things have been progressing well I have worked out a way around one of the 2 technical mistakes from the Martian, and have had it approved as viable by by science team. This problem was that of how to grow food plants in soil full of heavy metals that are deadly to humans. 

"The soils contain heavy metals like lead, arsenic and mercury and also a lot of iron," Wieger Wamelink, lead researcher of a team from Wageningen University & Research centre in the Netherlands have grown crops including tomatoes, rye, radish, pea, leek, spinach, garden rocket, cress, quinoa and chives in soil made to simulate what could be made by combining organic compounds with the ’soil’ on both Mars and the moon. 

It has not been tested if potatoes (or other plants) will pick up these heavy metals, so it is probably best to remove or reduce them from the soil.  Thus the farming will start as hydroponic for food and others to remove the contaminants from the soil and later it will move to more 50/50 hydroponic / soil crops. In discussing this with Rita, she felt that the approach was sound.