Time to Kick this Pig!
When I was 10 years old my father let me watch a movie. It was Halloween night and everyone was exhausted from trick or treating and gorged on candy. It was about ten at night and I was just about ready to doze off for the evening when my dad and my step brother came in and changed the channel.
“You going to love this,” my father said as he set down on the couch next to me.
As the black and white movie began to play on the small screen I was quickly becoming bored with it when I heard something emanating from the TV.
“They’re coming to get you Barbara!”
Immediately my attention was captured and for the next 2 hours, although it felt simultaneously like 2 minutes and 20 hours, I was a prisoner. I didn’t sleep a wink that night. Every shadow, every sound out in the windy Michigan night, and every creek in the house was one of the living dead coming to get me.
I was terrified.
This was my first exposure to the world of zombies. Since that night I have been both fascinated and obsessed with the genre. I wrote the first of many zombie stories that I would craft across the sweep of my life when I was twelve years old. Now I have the opportunity to bring the best of my creations to life.
I am initiating a Kickstarter to raise the money that is needed to publish the first book of the Shores of the Dead Trilogy. On the morning of August 3, 2012 (my thirty sixth birthday by the way) the project will go live and I will have sixty days to raise $1000.00 so that my company Gorillas with Scissors Press can begin bringing the series to the public. I will be driving all of you crazy daily as I whore myself out in order to raise these funds. There are two main things you will be able to do if you wish to help me.
1. Donate money, every little bit helps me reach that $100.00 goal.
2. Share the project with everyone that you can and encourage them to do the same.
If you help do these thing not only will you be helping me get my foot into the publishing industry, you will also be helping that little boy who watched an old movie with his dad on Halloween and was forever changed.
“You going to love this,” my father said as he set down on the couch next to me.
As the black and white movie began to play on the small screen I was quickly becoming bored with it when I heard something emanating from the TV.
“They’re coming to get you Barbara!”
Immediately my attention was captured and for the next 2 hours, although it felt simultaneously like 2 minutes and 20 hours, I was a prisoner. I didn’t sleep a wink that night. Every shadow, every sound out in the windy Michigan night, and every creek in the house was one of the living dead coming to get me.
I was terrified.
This was my first exposure to the world of zombies. Since that night I have been both fascinated and obsessed with the genre. I wrote the first of many zombie stories that I would craft across the sweep of my life when I was twelve years old. Now I have the opportunity to bring the best of my creations to life.
I am initiating a Kickstarter to raise the money that is needed to publish the first book of the Shores of the Dead Trilogy. On the morning of August 3, 2012 (my thirty sixth birthday by the way) the project will go live and I will have sixty days to raise $1000.00 so that my company Gorillas with Scissors Press can begin bringing the series to the public. I will be driving all of you crazy daily as I whore myself out in order to raise these funds. There are two main things you will be able to do if you wish to help me.
1. Donate money, every little bit helps me reach that $100.00 goal.
2. Share the project with everyone that you can and encourage them to do the same.
If you help do these thing not only will you be helping me get my foot into the publishing industry, you will also be helping that little boy who watched an old movie with his dad on Halloween and was forever changed.
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