Dragons Out in English now at publisher webshop and preorder deliveries under way

My English publisher Austin Macauley has now opened their webshop here for orders of Dragons Out book! They have announced a special 25% off discount code off Paperbacks on our website. This code will expire on the 30th of September 2021. Use code AUTHOR0721 at checkout. 

I am closing the preordering capability of the hardback version of the English Dragons Out book at my own web site at this time.

For further purchases of the English Dragons Out book, published on July 30, 2021, I would invite you to use my publisher Austin Macauley's webshop here.

We will be soon delivering the books to everyone who preordered and paid for the Dragons Out hardback books from me. The plan is to have them shipping in early August. I have been reconfirming the mailing addresses from everyone, and currently, I have responses from most people. If you haven't confirmed your address to me in July, please do it now.

Once more I would like to extend my thanks to all those who preordered either my Finnish or English Dragons Out -book, making it possible for me to create the Dragons Out as the fantastic piece of art and knowledge that it is. Your support during the book project is invaluable. Soon you get to enjoy the fruits of the cooperation -  the book that will tell a fantasy story and teach some software testing! I sincerely hope your loved ones, yourself and any of your stakeholders will enjoy the book as thoroughly as I have in writing it.

My Author page at Austin Macauley is https://www.austinmacauley.com/author/kakkonen-kari.




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