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In honor of the holiday spirit, we’ll be offering Arcadia Snips and the Steamwork Consortium at a special discount until Christmas Eve–$12 for your copy, plus buy-one-get-one for any bookmarks you order. Grab a copy as a gift idea! And if you’re someone who’s already enjoyed the book, please–submit a reviews to Amazon.com or the Web Fiction Guide–or both! Remember–we can only continue to bring this story to you with your aid. Every person you tell about us helps.
We’re introducing more shipping options, for those of you who want your book faster than media mail. This is our first time shipping during the holidays, so we have no experience as to how long it will take packages to arrive. We doubt that anything shipped by media mail after Dec 11th will get there by the 25th, and even that is probably unlikely–for priority mail, I recommend ordering by at least the 15th.
In the meanwhile, work is continuing on the sequel–Arcadia Snips and the Clockwork Heart. We’re hoping to have it finished by mid to late January (though actual book prints won’t be available until much later, no doubt) so we can continue posting chapters right when this book ends. Stay tuned for more information.
On a less cheerful note, my grandfather recently passed away. He was a wonderful man, and one of the primary inspirations for both the humor and the lightheartedness of the series. He raised me as his son and inspired me to pursue writing as both a craft and an art; if it wasn’t for him, I’d probably never have shown so much as passing interest in a dangling participle. Whenever I didn’t know the definition of a word, he made me look it up–whenever I wanted to start a project, he was there to help. He taught me to think, act, and most of all, question–skills that without, I would be truly lost.
We do not bury the dead for their sake; rather, we bury them for ours. Charles Rodgers was put under the earth on November 19th, 2009. He was 81 years old. Though he has moved on, I have yet to; perhaps I never will.
