Just a quick update today - Fourteen copies pre-ordered. That is great! Just over sixty days left in the funding so there is still a good chance of getting e-book level met. 

I received a chapter 1 edit from another set of eyes so I'm currently applying the changes now and hope to have a better chapter 1 for your review hopefully by tomorrow evening. Work and kid schedules have me pressed for time at the moment. 

As for the status of the novel, I haven't gotten very far into editing chapter 3, but have been working on making notes for plotting out the last section of the book. The plan I've decided on is to make A Distant State a solitary story that can stand on its own, but leave enough mystery and untold story that I could follow up with a sequel if the demand is there for it. 

It has been an interested ride so far and we are still climbing up the hill. Can't wait to take the next steps with you. Thanks again for all of your support. 

I'll post another update once I have the edited Chapter 1 published on Inkshares. 

Thanks, Dylan

Wow. Thank you everyone for your support so far. There are seven pre-orders in less than twenty-fours hours and A Distant State is moved up to the funding status. 

So notes on how the project is going, I have finished reading the initial draft of the book and have some work to clean up in plot lines and character detail. I really needed a chance to re-read everything and thanks to an internet outage at home during the past week I was able to find the time to finish reading. This will give me a fresh perspective on the characters and where I originally had wanted them to go. Now, I can move forward with the edits for the chapters 2s to 14 and fix some of the discrepancies that I found. 

I found the original notebook that I had handwritten notes and ship layouts that was buried on a bookshelf from the past two years so I was going through that yesterday. 

Chapter 2 first pass on edits should be completed by this coming weekend and ready to post if the novel passes 100 pre-orders. 

As a special surprise to the early pre-orders, I created a Spotify playlist themed for A Distant State. The playlist is heavy on Dmitri Shostakovich, who was a Soviet composer that died in 1975. You will learn the reason for the heavy rotation on the playlist throughout A Distant State. There is also a mix of other popular songs from the 60s that is appropriate to what is happening during the novel. 

The Spotify playlist can be found at this link: https://open.spotify.com/user/dmcintosh24/playlist/7eky0AGuxHHL5aZOOlc4IM If you are not a user of Spotify, then you will need to create a free account to be able to listen. Sorry. 

If you have any feedback or questions, feel free to leave comments! I'd love to hear what you think. Keep spreading the word as well! Much like other crowd-sourcing projects, I need everyone's help. 

Thanks for believing in me and A Distant State!