There was a part of me that thought this day would never come. That chore I've been promising I'd do for the last, oh.... two years? I finally updated my website!

 

Author websites are a bit of an industry wide joke. You know the one: if you want to know what an author is up to ask Amazon. (Or better yet subscribe to their newsletter 😉.) The point is that our often self-maintained websites are routinely barebones, neglected, and left to grow digital cobwebs while cyber spiders crawl all over them mining for long defunct data.

 

I have often complained about this fact while searching for updates about my own favorite author's future releases. Hello, hypocrisy, my old friend 😂

 

But a recently-discovered, now all-time-favorite author of mine, the awesome Matt Dinniman, has shown me a new gold standard for how he interacts with his readers. (Oh, and any of you who are even slightly open to LitRPG--think Ready Player One but with a Terry Pratchett-style sense of humor--go check out his stuff. It made me laugh more than I have in a good long time. It's also in KU.)

 

What Matt does is post his current work-in-progress to a website so readers who are interested can follow along and give suggestions in real time as the plot develops. Even if you don't read the story until it's done, there's something incredibly satisfying about knowing which chapter is being worked on. I'm not just being told progress is being made, but actually seeing it.

 

It's made me wonder. I never thought any readers would be interested in watching and helping shape my stories... but now I'm considering you might be?

 

So... Would you be interested in getting early access and interaction with the books I'm working on? 

 

Reply to this email with a simple yes or no!