{"id":6419,"date":"2011-11-02T22:41:29","date_gmt":"2011-11-03T04:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=6419"},"modified":"2011-11-02T22:41:29","modified_gmt":"2011-11-03T04:41:29","slug":"announcing-the-desert-stars-kickstarter-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/announcing-the-desert-stars-kickstarter-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing the Desert Stars Kickstarter campaign!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/807721593\/desert-stars-a-novel-of-gaia-nova\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6420\" title=\"ds-kickstarter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/ds-kickstarter-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"134\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/ds-kickstarter-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/ds-kickstarter-600x449.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/ds-kickstarter-140x104.jpg 140w, https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/ds-kickstarter.jpg 1067w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a>In order to help pay for some of the production costs of my next ebook, <em>Desert Stars,<\/em> I&#8217;m <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/807721593\/desert-stars-a-novel-of-gaia-nova\" target=\"_blank\">running a kickstarter campaign<\/a>.\u00a0 The goal is to raise $600 by December 1st, and to publish the novel by Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>For those who contribute to the campaign, here&#8217;s what I&#8217;m offering:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>$10 or more: <\/strong>A copy of the finished ebook in all formats, with your name listed under &#8220;special thanks&#8221; at the front.<strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>$15 or more: <\/strong>The above, plus a high resolution image of the cover art as a desktop background.<strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>$25 or more: <\/strong>The above, plus your choice of every ebook I&#8217;ve published in 2011 (including the forthcoming <em>Journey to Jordan<\/em>) OR every ebook I will publish in 2012.<\/li>\n<li><strong>$50 or more: <\/strong>The above, plus a character named after you in a future work and a complimentary copy of that work.<strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>$100 or more: <\/strong>The above, plus a short story up to 1,500 words that is exclusively yours to share as you see fit.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is my first time running anything like this, so I&#8217;m a little bit nervous, but I&#8217;m also excited at the same time!\u00a0 At the very least, it&#8217;ll be an interesting experiment.\u00a0 The goal is fairly modest, but it&#8217;ll cover the editing costs, with a little bit left over to go towards cover art.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll pay for the rest.<\/p>\n<p>This weekend, I&#8217;ll put out the first few chapters on Smashwords so that you can read a sample.\u00a0 If you want to read the prologue, you can find it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=6382\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, please help spread the word!\u00a0 Tweet it, like it, share it, tell a friend about it, blog about it&#8211;every little bit helps!\u00a0 And if you can contribute a little towards the project, that would be awesome as well.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks so much!\u00a0 I&#8217;m <em>really<\/em> looking forward to publishing this book!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In order to help pay for some of the production costs of my next ebook, Desert Stars, I&#8217;m running a kickstarter campaign.\u00a0 The goal is to raise $600 by December 1st, and to publish the novel by Christmas. For those who contribute to the campaign, here&#8217;s what I&#8217;m offering: $10 or more: A copy of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/announcing-the-desert-stars-kickstarter-campaign\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Announcing the Desert Stars Kickstarter campaign!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[44],"tags":[639],"class_list":["post-6419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ds","tag-kickstarter","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-1Fx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6419"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6426,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6419\/revisions\/6426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}