Rise is in the wild!  Many of you have already received your copy and have sent images of the book to me.  Thanks for that.  I was in the throes of Post Con Depression following Dragoncon when these images began rolling in.  Instant boost to the happiness scale.

We did it!  You did it!  With your help, After Man took second place in the Geek and Sundry contest.  Michelle and I are so grateful for your support, especially the Rise supporters who came back to help again.  We now move our focus to getting the rewrite finished and off to Inkshares for developmental edit.

For the new followers that came on board in the first 24 hours after the contest ended but were unable to pre-order because of the glitch that turned After Man into an unfunded book, the problem has been fixed.

Stay tuned next week for the Geek and Sundry announcement of which of the three contest winners gets the nod as the first book in the Geek and Sundry collection.  If you haven’t checked out the other two winning books, I encourage you to do so now.  You can find links to them here.

As a thank you to all your support during the campaign to bring Rise to publication, Inkshares sent out a gift of $10 credits to use in another contest.  I’ve contacted many of you through the Book of Faces, but just in case I missed people, I’m sending this little announcement out.  They expire on Monday, 16 May 2016.  Most of those I have talked to did receive the credits but there are a few who did not and I’m not sure why.  Still, it doesn’t hurt for you to look.  And, if you have them, I could think of at least one way you could use them by Monday night.

After Man!

In other news related to Rise itself, I’ve seen the final copy sent to the proofreader and it looks amazing.  This thing is so close to happening yet still so many months away.  Stay tuned for news regarding a small release party at or around DragonCon in Atlanta, GA the week leading up to the convention.

Finally, many of you have been asking about the sequel to Rise, Fall.  Some of you have noticed on my author page it lists a certain draft named Fall and asked why you couldn’t go follow or preorder it yet.  The reason is I haven’t quite finished prepping the page for public viewing so you can follow it.  It will not be available for preorder until closer to Rise’s release date of 13 Sept 2016.  Stay tuned.