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Mini Loans — Understanding the Mini Loan Process

A tiny loan is simply short, mini, personal loan, that you can apply for to suit your certain business needs. When you are self-employed, you are going to usually want extra money speedy, but certainly not large enough to warrant getting a large personal loan. These small loans usually are only a few hundred or so dollars and may https://ncprojectgate.com/operations-of-small-businesses help you to get the cash you require for a selection of reasons.

The most typical reason for these kinds of micro loans is to wave you over until the next paycheck comes. By providing collateral – such as real estate or personal items, the lender can easily borrow a more substantial amount of money for much lower curiosity rates. In order to safeguarded the loan, the lender may ask you to put up your own house as security, although this may not be recommended. Many lenders wish to keep their particular collateral — such as personal items – in escrow till they are ready to go to bat with the money. This gives them more time to charge acceptable interest rates plus it gives all of them the opportunity to recoup any possible losses when you become delinquent on your obligations.

Small lenders often do not make as much funds per loan application as larger lenders. Nevertheless , by offering small loans with higher rates of interest, they are able to recover the costs of conducting their particular business and pass along these savings for you. They are not out to dominate the world and don’t treat their very own Microloan loaning as a “bet. ” It is important that when you are trying to find a small personal loan, especially a immediate one, that you take a look at the eye rate as well as the terms of the arrangement before you sign. If this seems too good for being true, this probably is definitely.

The Third Book of Ore: Blaze of Embers

The final book of our trilogy is coming! It will be available on April 12th, and here is a peek at what it looks like:

Mysterious Galaxy Birthday Bash

23 years of “Martians, Murder, Magic, and Mayhem” will be celebrated on May 7th – and that fits us to a T! We are honored to have been invited to the greatest bookstore with the greatest staff on the greatest day. Come join the festivities! Here are the details.

WAYBOUND Event at Pages

We will be at the amazing book store Pages in Manhattan Beach on April 13th at 6:30 – come heckle us! Details are here.

WAYBOUND Launch Event

It’s settled! Our launch event is going to be at our favorite place in Los Angeles – The Last Bookstore! Not only that, but the Grammy-nominated California Feetwarmers will be joining us for a champagne-fueled good time. Here are the details. If you are in the area, swing on by!

In the Mines

We’ve been in the dark for a while now, building the final volume of ORE. Many things are brewing, including the release of Book 2 – WAYBOUND, which we’ll be posting more about very soon. Until then, check out this first review for WAYBOUND – and exciting take from Kirkus that you can see here.

More Upcoming Events!

Wondering where you can see us in the coming weeks? So glad you asked!

Saturday, April 11, Irvine Marriott– Cam and Benny will be speaking on a panel and signing books at the Literary Orange Festival.

Saturday April 18– We will be talking about animation at the Expo Park Library 

Sunday April 19– Come meet us at the LA Times Festival of Books! We will be signing at Booth 834 from 2-3:50.  The festival is free, and it will be chock full of amazing authors. We can’t wait! 

Upcoming Events!

Hello everyone! We’ve been busily pounding away at books two and three, but we wanted to let you all know about some upcoming events. Hopefully you’ll be able to stop by and say hello. Unless indicated otherwise, we will both be there.

We have a few other events pending, and will add those to this list when they are confirmed.

Oct. 12, 2pm- Teen Read Week, Central Library 630 W 5th St, Los Angeles 90071.

Oct. 31, 1pm- Arcadia Park Branch Library 1302 North Justin Ave., Dallas TX 75211 (Cam only)

Nov. 7, 4pm-  Book Club, Northwest Branch Library, 3323 W. Victory Blvd.,Burbank CA 91505

Nov. 8, 12-4pm- Hollywood Children’s Book Fair, Cheremoya Ave Elementary, 6017 Franklin Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90028

Jan. 4, 2-4pm- Mt Lebanon Public Library, 16 Castle Shannon Blvd, Pittsburgh, PA 15228 (Benny only)

LIFT OFF!

(The least flattering picture from our launch event that we could find.)

If we could bottle the feeling we had all last week, we would be kings. To see our brain baby out in the world, the thing we have been working on for years, on shelves and in people’s hands is by far the most gratifying feeling of our careers. We journeyed around the Los Angeles area, hit more than thirty stores, and signed hundreds of books. We met bookstore managers who were thrilled to be introduced to our book and shy but eager kids whose eyes lit up when we personalized a copy to them.

Totally crazy. And that was just during the week.

Then the weekend came, and we had the honor of speaking on a panel with Peter Straub at Wondercon (something we can’t stop talking about.) Not only did we avoid making complete buffoons of ourselves, but Peter was amazingly gracious and genuinely interested in reading our book – he even asked for a signed copy! So there we were, signing our debut novel… to Peter Straub. Also, the wonderful folks at Mysterious Galaxy hosted a signing for us at Wondercon, then it was on to our launch event at Children’s Book World.

And it went off without a hitch.

A lively crowd of family, friends and strangers squeezed in to listen to us talk about ourselves and read from our book. What a thrill that was! For our first public reading, we are happy to say we have reports of chills. The word “verklempt” was even bandied about. Such an amazing audience and such a beautiful event, and our signing wrists didn’t even get tired. The week was basically… perfect. A rare and wonderful thing – we are still over the moon, if you couldn’t tell.

Then on top of it all, we had two very cool articles of ours put out into the world – a very goofy one at Huffington Post and another topical / goofy one at USA Today.

And what now, you may ask? What are we going to do with our giddy and fortunate selves?

BOOK TWO.

THE COUNTDOWN

(Image by Robbert van der Steeg)

This is that crazy, mind-melt time we have heard so much about from other authors – the days that lead up to release of your first book. Time is glacial, sometimes ecstatic and other times cruel, but always punishingly slow. Yet part of us wishes we could have more time; time to get the word out and to amplify our signal even more.

A small part, really. Most parts of us just want to get the book out there NOW.

But as we slither closer to the starting line (we would say finish, but getting the book out is just the beginning), it has been hugely gratifying to share some of the concept art that went into the making of the book. Check out the ongoing series of art posts on Twitter and Facebook leading up to the book release on April 15th.

(Art by Jon Foster)

There have also been some pretty crazy fantastic reviews, like this one from Booklist. This bit pretty much floored us:

“The imaginative world, whirlwind adventure, tense emotional stakes, and some well-placed laughs put this first in a planned series in the same stack as Harry Potter and Percy Jackson.”

And this one from School Library Journal:

“The authors have created an imaginative and profound world. The descriptions of the Mekhans are so original and detailed, readers might think these creatures actually exist… A fine addition to any middle grade collection.”

And on top of it all, we got the very exciting news that we will appearing on a panel at Wondercon with none other than the inimitable Peter Straub.

All in all, its been a pretty wild time as we reflect on a project that started with the seed of an idea over breakfast back in 2006. Since then it has slowly evolved into something that has fully dominated our lives for the past three years. And pretty soon, it will be out in the world.

Still hard to wrap our little minds around…