ARCs available for the Book of Beginnings

Status: Mark is punishing me for using GR!

Haha. Oops. I did kind of promise not to check this stuff until I got home... (That lasted eleven days, which is pretty good.) Mark surprised me on April Fools with an Alexa Skill dev challenge (which needs the internet to test). It's kept my interest and has been a real challenge and lifted my spirits (though it's glitchy as Hell).

But now my mind is on fire with things to do when I get home. I want to jump back into my writing habits and go, go, go, go. (This is why Mark took my keyboard away in the first place...)

Here's what I need to do first, before moving on to editing:
1) Write the 'endings' of Books 7, 8, 9, 10.
2) Write the 'beginning' of Book 7. (I know I wrote it once... but it's lost somewhere.)

Here's what I propose:
If you guys want to keep me extra motivated, we could do a buddy read type thing for the Book of Beginnings. I check my email stuff in the late afternoon as a reward for finishing my daily writing goals. And seeing you guys interact with the story makes me super-charged with writing fuel. Haha.

Therefor, if anyone wants a FREE REVIEW COPY, just make a public comment on this blog post, then send me a private message so I can send you a download link. Let's say up to ten people? I don't know if more will want to join, but the more the merrier.

What do I expect in return for an ARC?

0.5) Your Time. (Reading time is a precious thing. By asking for an ARC you're saying that you're curious and have the time to try it in the last week-ish of April, when I'll need the motivational boost to kickstart the writing habit.)
1) Honest Review. (You aren't obligated to do this. I had to DNF 'Call me by your name' even though Mark loved it so much. We all have our reasons for what we can't take.)
2) Status updates during April 20-27th. (Completely optional, but I love seeing what you enjoy about the story. This will be a *huge* psychological bonus to get me back on the writing track.)
3) Purchase. (This is why I don't feel right going through NetGalley... if you are the kind of person who LOVES this story and want to read more stories like it, then I NEED you to buy it. Your purchase will help train the Amazon algorithm, the best recommendation engine on planet Earth. For a few days in mid-May, I will have the book at 99 cents. Please, if you read the ARC and are a super fan, buy it then. Once it gets to 50 purchases, the algo should kick in and the story will reach other readers who are probably predisposed to liking it (or who like the books you like).)


That's going to be it from me until next Wednesday. (I promise, Mark. No more worrying from me!)

I'll get you the ARCs Wed/Thur-ish. Anything else I need to mention?

Please have your reviews in by NO LATER than AUGUST 24th. I will be running a BookBub (if I can get it) and many other adverts during the week "The Book of Endings" comes out.

Also, this book has many simple typos. If you're the kind of person who can read on a Google Doc and wouldn't mind fixing the glaring he-instead-of-him type mistakes that jump out at you, please send me a message with your email address and I'll send you the Doc. You can buddy-read along with the rest of us and you'll have my eternal thanks. You'll make this so much easier for my professional editor to focus on the more technical stuff, too.

Potential Editors: I'll send you a softcover of the finished copy. (Probably with your Review on the back cover!) And maybe more stuff. (Or if you don't want to give your address, I'll post a private copy that you can then purchase.)

I'm a competitive person and if you do some amazing typo-catching for me, I'll be even nicer to you. [Seriously, Mark finds my need-to-be-number-one super annoying.] :)