Six days left. If we don't raise $9,800 by 9PM CST on Friday December 04 (03:00 UTC Saturday), this is all for naught.

We're raising around $300 every day, and we have a tick more than $2,000 left to go. Most of our pledges so far have been $40 preorders. If only fifty people preorder books in the next six days, we're done. That's it.

So things look pretty encouraging, but we can't slack off in the home stretch. On every single Kickstarter project so far, the majority of funds are pledged in their final days. Please tell everyone you know about this - tweet it, Facebook it, Tumblr it. If just a third of you convince a friend to preorder, then we get to party early.

Another big help: some enterprising backers have posted this project to two popular link blogs. Vote for Cadence & Slang on Hacker News. Vote for Cadence & Slang on Digg. If this project is voted onto either site's front page, it would be a huge publicity boost during a critical time. You can register for free accounts and tap the buttons (HN, Digg) to register a positive vote. (Thanks so much to Eliot Sykes and Kev Burns, Jr. for posting this on their own.)

Lastly, over the past few days, I've worked on a new site for the book, which I'll launch if the project is fully funded. It'll contain information about preordering for the next few months, between now and when the book is printed. It'll also have a bit more about the book's contents.

I'm really happy about how the site looks. Hopefully we'll get to use it.