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I've decided to stay true to my roots and serialize The Machine God and any subsequent books. This means potential conflict with about ten of my Kickstarter backers, who voted against it. I don't recognize any of their names, which is good in that I've attracted new readers, and sad in that I worry they'll feel swindled.

For those who voted against it, I'm going to give the option of leaving their pledges as they are, getting the cost of the ebook back, or a coupon here for a different ebook. From now on I'll be making it clear in any Kickstarter presales I do that the book will serialize. It's how I started, it serves as a book club, and it's who I am.

The Kickstarter is plugging along. It's just shy of $2000, and the first stretch goal is at $2500. That's a new story in the Drifting Isle universe for all contributors. At $4000 I'll be able to outright hire an audiobook narrator and give everyone at $45 and over a copy of the finished book. Yay! I really prefer hiring narrators outright; with revenue share, the narrator is taking a real risk.

Here, by artist Elsa Kroese, is the concept art for the cover of The Machine God:

The typography is placeholder. Kickstarter up soon!

Chapter eight of The Machine God draft is up in the patrons area! This has been a hard, hard summer and I'm looking forward to winding up both it and this book.