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Kobo Soft Launch of Rise to Revolt

A basic canard of the writing craft (at least according to the indie author websites that I have been reading for years) is that you can only polish a turd for so long. A book can only be edited for so long before it becomes a waste of the time and energy that could be better spent writing the next book.

Rise to Revolt is my first completed book, I have poured years of on-again, off again effort into building the universe and sketching out the narrative that I intend to tell. As a first book, it is going to be the weakest book that I produce, simply by virtue of being the first book.

Every author must start somewhere, and I strongly feel that Rise to Revolt is the very best work that I am capable of producing right now, and that it is a work that is worth reading. Ultimately however, you as the reader must be the judge of that, and I would be lying if I didn't admit to a certain amount of nervousness at the prospect.

Rise to Revolt is the first in a trilogy of books that is a sci-fi twist on the American Revolution.  It will be followed by Rise to Liberty this winter, and a further unnamed book sometime next year.

Below I have reproduced the note to the reader that I wrote for the book:
Hi! Thanks for buying my very first published book, I appreciate your giving me the chance to hopefully entertain you for a few hours and show off a bit of the world that I have spent the last few years creating.
As mentioned, this is my first published book as a writer. I chose to self-publish and avoid the usually years long process of submitting, resubmitting, and re-re-resubmitting manuscripts to various publishes, taking up valuable time that could otherwise be put to good use writing and focusing on learning my craft as an writer and creator.
My hope is that this book entertains you and engages your imagination. I have done my best to edit and polish this book in order to make this book the very best that it can be, but I am fully aware that no book is perfect and that one of the ways any writer, let alone a new writer, grows is by constructive criticism.
Should you notice a typo, or a grammatical error, or have suggestion on how to improve the story, I am very willing to hear what comments you have to make. Just drop me an email at jbergstromwrites@gmail.com.
I intend to keep a record of every email with constructive criticism in it that I receive. Any changes that I make based on that feedback will be communicated to you through a mass email message, at which point you can go to your chosen platform for e-reading and update your book to the latest version.
One of the greatest benefits of the doors that have opened to indie publishers through the medium of Amazon, Kobo, etc, is the ease of updating a book and fixing errors. I want to take full advantage of this and will do my very best to fix in a timely manner any grammatical or syntax error brought to my attention.
Rise to Revolt will be followed by its sequel, Rise to Liberty, sometime in Winter 2017.
Once again, thanks for purchasing Rise to Revolt and I hope you enjoy the book as much as I enjoyed writing it.
I have chosen to start by releasing Rise to Revolt onto Kobo first, in a soft launch. I want to get some feedback from people outside of my friends and family before I release it on other platforms.

Thanks for reading!

Jonathan 

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