Christian Piatt's Blog, page 35

A Big, Wet, Sloppy (but heartfelt) THANK YOU

Thanks to so many of you, we reached our goal. Because of this, BLOOD DOCTRINE will be published! With less than 24 hours left in the campaign, we’re beyond our “bare bones” budget and moving toward our expanded “stretch budget” to help generate some funds for marketing and printing costs.  All of the remaining pledges made between now [Read More...]

Advance Copies! Author Web Events! Extraneous Exclamation Points!!!

With 47 short hours to go, we have just over $300 left to reach our Kickstarter goal, to ensure that the project will successfully fund and the book will be published! There’s still a chance for late-comers to claim a signed advance copy of my forthcoming novel, BLOOD DOCTRINE, schedule a web book club event with me or [Read More...]

Church Sign Epic Fails, “Mastur-abater” Edition

So I thought if you masturbate, you’d grow hair on your palms. Turns out your arm bursts into flames. The first one, I can deal with. The second…not so much.

What a Day! And Pondering: “What if…”

Yesterday was pretty remarkable in the life of our campaign. Not only did we meet the match challenge; we obliterated it by raising more than two thousand dollars.  We have just over $1,500 left to go to meet the final goal and make this project a reality. Wow! A few folks have asked what will be done [Read More...]

Five Things That Will Shock Our Grandkids About Us

I’m a big fan of the TV show Mad Men, which takes place in the midst of the Madison Avenue advertising agencies back in the ’60s and ’70s. Sure, I enjoy the drama and the “cool factor” of Don Draper and his cavalier ad team. But for me, the most fascinating part is all of the cultural [Read More...]

Titulus Crucis/Title of the Cross (Blood Doctrine, Chapter One)

In the final days of the campaign to raise the funds to self-publish my novel, Blood Doctrine, I’m sharing early chapters in the manuscript in rough form so folks can get a sense of the story. We’re nearly two-thirds of the way to our goal, with less than six days to go. Thanks for any help [Read More...]

Rivers in the Desert: Why New Years Day Is a Christian Holiday

Growing up in Texas, fairly close to New Orleans, I knew all about Mardi Gras. It was a big deal in the South, replete with combinations of debaucherous consumption and self-exposure. What I didn’t understand, being the good evangelical Protestant that I was at the time, was that it actually was the celebration preceding the [Read More...]

“It Was a Boy, Wasn’t It?” (Blood Doctrine Prologue)

Read more and support the Kickstarter campaign HERE The lights hanging over the young woman’s head were so intense that her eyes began to water. She tried not looking into them, but her only other option was to gaze upon the doctor and nurse there in the makeshift delivery room, or the drawn, silent man [Read More...]

Seven Awesome Gifts from HomeBrewed Christianity for Kickstarter Backers

Thanks to my friend and media co-conspirator, Tripp Fuller, for putting together the following blog post and the new list of added incentives for folks to jump on the Kickstarter campaign for my novel, BLOOD DOCTRINE, in the final days. Feeling confident that, with the help and support of the Homebrewed listeners and my friends [Read More...]

Draft of the BLOOD DOCTRINE Book Cover

This is still a work in progress, but I wanted to share the first iteration of the cover for BLOOD DOCTRINE: Let us know what you think so far. After all, it’s your project too! With nine days to go, we’re past the $6,000 mark and well on our way. But we have to finish [Read More...]