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Wahoo! We have content! 

Chapters 1 and 2 are up for you. Time to meet our two protagonists! George is a middling QC Inspector at a distribution center above the clouds. Modun is a bottle-grown Biological Labor Unit (so, a robot made of meat) slugging away below. They’re each tied into the daily grind, but the workaday monotony won’t last.

I’d love to hear any feedback. Hope you dig the work, and there’s more to come!
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    Perhaps a polka/Intergalactic-spaghetti-funk fusion.
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      Working on a trailer for this book before I launch the drive. I’m learning that video editing is finnicky, fiddly work. Very particular. I quite enjoy it. Exciting the things I’m learning to do. Once again, open-source software is my friend. Hardest thing I’ve had to do so far: record myself delivering a prepared statement.

      Bonus result: I’ve got great material for a gag reel! So you’ve got that to look forward to! Should the background music be Polka, Klezmer or Mariachi?

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        Art! I’ve been doing mucho art stuff lately! I’m not especially good at graphics, don’t get me wrong, but it’s fun and very rewarding when something comes together and looks actually kinda good.

        That picture below? Hah! Nooooo. No way. That’s not mine. I can’t artify like that. How awesome would that be? No, that’s by Phil Hale. I first saw his paintings of this robot-smashing dude years ago, and they’ve been lurking in my brain since then.  Something about his paintings grabbed my interest and never let go. Motion. Intensity. Physical and emotional rawness. Frayed nerve endings. It’s a still image, but the sense of force comes through.
         

        The influence of Phil Hale’s paintings comes through in the later chapters of Beneath White Clouds. The essential, indomitable, ugly, powerful ape-ness of man. I didn’t realize the connection until a read-through of BWC coincided with a re-examination of an old art book I have containing some of his work. But it’s there in the story, and in pale imitation in some of the art I’m cooking up.

        So, as I warm up to resume the funding campaign for Beneath White Clouds, I thought it would be good of me to share with you a bit of what is occupying my mind, some of inspiration that fueled Beneath White Clouds. There is a lot of funny in the story, but a lot of other stuff too, including, I hope, a bit of the essential power mankind has that transcends any form of oppression. It ain’t pretty, but it’s effective.
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          "What?" you ask after opening your inbox. "What what what? An update from Beneath White Clouds? But it’s a dead project!" You stroke your chin in baffled wonder, girding your loins for the coming upheaval. "What is this?"

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          See what I did there? Yep. Prose in second person. Just felt the urge to stretch that particular brain-muscle.

          So hello one and all. I am writing this update to lay the groundwork for zombifying the heck out of this dead project. It’s voo-doo time! Why? Well, I started receiving some of the Inkshares and Quill projects I backed and they’re good, they’re outside the norm, they excite me, they have re-invigorated my interest in the idea of Inkshares. Bunch of paradigm-busting geeky punks.

          I’ve heard it said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing twice but expecting different results. But who cares? I’m gonna do it again! I’m putting on my Quixote pants and revving up for another Inkshares drive! And this time, I have a plan!

          What plan?

          Well, I plan to run the crowdfunding campaign with a modicum of preparation. Prepare to talk. Prepare for outreach. Prep for updates. Prep for games, prizes, funstuff! Stuff what’s fun and cool. Or, as Rishi Bee once said, "fucool," which sounds like an insult, but assuredly is not.

          I’ve got things to do to make this work. Groovy things. But groovin’ voodoo takes time. I tentatively expect to hit the go button on the new campaign in August-ish.

          The purpose of this update is to ping my first-run followers. PING! I’m sounding the depths. Imagine you’re in a submarine, all cramped corridors and low-hanging conduits, creaking noises, the crushing weight of thousands of feet of water hanging like an obese lurgy of doom overhead. PING!

          If you’re diggin’ on the notion of Beneath White Clouds charging ahead for a Quill or Inkshares publication, then PING back. By which I mean "like" this update.

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            New cover art... AGAIN! Much better this time. Spent the day GIMPing between customers, instead of writing. I'll eventually have to change it, work out the tower design to bee more unique and intricate, and not quite so much of a, well, knockoff. But, 'till then, this'll do nicely eh?
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              No one will believe him. They think he’s crazy. It’s safer to join. It’s dangerous to resist. He’s never done a brave thing in his life. But he’s seen the truth, and it is... stinky.