Hey all,

Have some big news to share today -- Feyside has an illustrator! The massively talented LJ Ruell has agreed to grace the project with his keen design eye. LJ is an artist and illustrator with a number of projects and gallery showings beneath his belt. Internet historians may also recall an art project of his as the beneficiary of the first successfully funded Kickstarter... don't ever tell him, but I therefore consider him a good-luck totem and his participation a major source of positive ju-ju for this crowdfunding project!  

LJ will be helping to lock down the depiction of the characters, the gear, and the worlds of Feyside and the Sixteen Baronies. We're also talking cover art and interior flourishes!  Below are some of his keen preliminary designs for our four lead characters:

...and this is just the beginning! I'm very much looking forward to sharing with you more of LJ's brilliant depictions as we proceed.

I’m trying not to spam you with updates, but anxiety is killing.

820 copies pre-ordered; 180 more to go. Sales have slowed down quite a lot. I’m hoping the interviews I am doing the next couple of weeks will help me regain momentum.

In the meantime, I am furiously writing and revising my manuscript. I don’t want to sound pretentious, but I’m quite proud of Chapters 11 and 12 which I have just finished (even though the work is never done)

My fellow author and friend Rick Heinz –who has been incredibly supportive- (order his book here, it is awesome: https://www.inkshares.com/projects/the-seventh-age-dawn?referral_code=5a8ac53b) said to me the other day “I got so many copies of your book, it better be good!” He was joking, but, believe me, I feel the pressure and take your support very serious.

I honestly think you are going to enjoy The Catcher’s Trap. When it becomes a Syfy series directed and produced by Ronald D. Moore, you will say, “I pre-ordered a copy of that book when the annoying author was spamming me more than a Nigerian prince.”

You know the drill. If you haven’t pre-order a copy of The Catcher’s Trap, please consider doing it. If you already did, get another one for a friend or family member. If you are a fellow author, let’s support each other!

Please feel free to share the link and spread the word.

Have a great day!

Friends, The Catcher’s Trap passed the 800 pre-orders!

I am thankful and humbled by your support. I can assure you I am working hard to make sure you won’t be disappointed when you read the book.

But if the past couple of days have been any indication of what’s coming, selling the next 200 copies is going to be challenging. The buzz of the contest is over, and I have found myself once again hassling hard for each pre-order. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t mind working hard because I know what is at stake; but as I move away from my closer circle of friends, and their friends, it becomes more difficult to get new readers.

So please, if you have Inkshares credits left spend them on another copy; if you never got around getting a copy, please do so. Many of my current followers have not pre-order yet; feel free to contact me if you are still on the fence and want to learn more.

Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/catcherstrap

Twitter: @RhfromTheGlen

There are exciting things in the media front coming in the next couple of weeks. Hopefully, that will infuse some much-needed life into this campaign.

Have a Fantastic day!

Hello, Friends!

GREAT NEWS!

Blood Dawn just jumped from being 1/10th of the way to its funding goal, to being almost 1/4. This happened all in a split-second!

That's right -- check out my project page. Inkshares lowered my funding goal so I now only need 1,000 pre-orders to reach my publication goal. With 6 months to go, and given how quickly momentum has grown just over the last 2 months (and let's not mention all the tricks I have up my sleeve to amp up my outreach more and more with each month to come), I'm very encouraged. This book is going to be real, published, in your hands, out there for epic fantasy fans to enjoy.

Please keep spreading the word. If you have followed this book recently, I'd appreciate your support right now. Head over to my Blood Dawn page (https://www.inkshares.com/projects/blood-dawn) and look at the three options for how you can back it.

Right now there are about 100 readers following Blood Dawn who have not ordered a copy. If every one of you became a Dragon backer (7 copies), we would be at 1,000. We'd be done, just like this -- as quickly as the funding goal dropped from 2,500 to 1,000. That's an amazing thought, even if it is ambitious.

If all of you became God-Kings (3 copies), we'd be more than 50% to the funding goal. Regardless, if each of you ordered a copy Blood Dawn would be so much further ahead.

And of course, regardless of what you choose to do, I am overwhelmed by all the interest this book is generating. While I continue to make this book as amazing as it can be, I'm encouraged by the growing reader community.

This is a great moment for Blood Dawn and what lies ahead!