#inix

In just 16 days, The Lucky Machine campaign goes live, and you'll get to read Inix's story... A story of perseverance, unwavering optimism, friendship, and identity all in the face of dystopian horrors. I hope you'll join me in bringing this story to life by pledging for an ebook, paperback, or hardcover copy! You can subscribe to get notified when the project goes live on November 12th so you don't miss out on all of the BackerKit exclusive goodies!

Here's what you can expect from this book:

Novella - which means it's a short and very consumable read! Sit down to read this and you'll be done in just a few hours... Just like a movie or a couple eps of a TV show. It's about 190 pages

Short chapters - I personally enjoy short chapters, so I have purposely written the chapters to be shorter so you can continually keep going "just one more chapter, it's short!" throughout the whole book

Sci-fi! - The book is about robots and cyborgs living in a dystopian, capitalistic hellscape. I took all my favorite sci-fi things and mashed them together to create this world

100% human-made content - All of the writing, all of the artwork, the cover, the inside pieces, the schematics, everything is all made by me, edited by a human being, beta read by human beings... You get it! By supporting, you're supporting indies and all the people they support along the way (including the wonderful Rebecca Olivia Hodges who plays Inix for the trailer above!)

Standalone - This book takes place in the same universe as my previous novella and shares a few of the same characters, The Warm Machine, but you do NOT need to have read it to jump into this book or this world.

But wait, there's more!

Subscribe to the campaign and back the book and you'll get to enjoy the following:

Unhinged updates where I gush about various things, mostly robot related

Probably a drawing of a robot or cyborg butt

A custom and exclusive paper doll at certain tiers

Polls you can vote and comment on to help me make bad fashion decisions for said paper doll

Livestream drawing times where you can help me make more terrible fashion decisions

BackerKit exclusive rewards like an art book and, if you play your cards right, a collection-exclusive free short story anthology (and more)

Subscribe now to be notified when it goes live on Nov. 12th!

Additionally...

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Basically as soon as I finished The Warm Machine people were saying... I want to know more about Inix!

Well, her story is coming in November. While our hero bots Zev and Sterling were off doing their own thing and searching out Root, Inix was making friends in the lower levels. Seems she has a penchant for making friends.

After a life of subservience wrought with extensive memory wipes, personal autonomous android model NX makes the fateful decision to slip from the mid-upper reaches of the city. In the dilapidated lower levels, she meets a talented but disillusioned cyborg named Sylvan who extends to her a temporary place working in his shop. As they sew the bonds of friendship and regain Sylvan's lost passion, NX hones her own unique talents: for optimism, for charm, and for creating. With a little help from some friends – and a bit of luck – NX evades the forces that intend to recapture her or destroy her. The lower levels are easy to get lost in, but can she hide forever?

The Lucky Machine takes place in the same world as The Warm Machine and shares some of its characters, but can be read as a standalone, or as a second installment in a series. This mostly cozy friendship story follows a plucky ace bot on her way to making new friends and finding out where she fits in the world.