Indiegogo campaign for Thicker Than Blood

I tell ya, I picked the wrong week to give up speed. Sorry, old Airplane joke. But this is going to be a busy week for me. I’m still in the middle of promoting A Boy and His Dawg, which is free on Amazon until the 5th, but I’ve also got word from my editor Tara Frauendienst that she’s ready to start the Indiegogo campaign for the fourth and final Peter the Wolf Book, Thicker Than Blood. If you participated in the last campaign, you’ll find new ebooks being offered as incentives this time. There’s also an incentive level to pick up all four books, so if you haven’t started the series yet, this is the best way to get all four in one zip download.

In addition to asking for funds, I also need your help getting out word to new readers. Conveniently, right under the cover for the book are several buttons for sharing the campaign on Facebook, Twitter, and G+. Last year, our campaign hit $380 and I was able to pay Tara the rest to cover her fees. We would not have reached this level without people sharing the tweets, and fully half the contributors were not regular readers. This is why it’s vital that we get your help with promotions, because you probably have a lot of friends who don’t follow me and who might be interested in helping if they knew about the campaign, even if it’s just to do another signal boost.

We’ve already got our first contributor for $25, and the campaign minimum is only $500 to cover Tara’s fees for editing the book. Any additional funds would be awesome, and would help Tara pay for her final college courses to graduate. But whether we make $510 or $1500, all the proceeds still go to Tara. I’ll make my own funds off the regular sales when the book hits the vendors.

One last thing: contributors get access to the book a few weeks earlier than the final release date. This preview is both a thank you to y’all, but also a polite request to consider reviewing the book when you finish it. Obviously, you don’t have to if you don’t feel like it, but it would really help out in my early promotions if I had some reviews to show to new readers. (This is of course assuming you read it right after buying it, and I know some of you probably have huge to-be read piles like me. And that’s cool.)

I’m having to once again push back the release on Revival of the Magi, so April’s release will be Sandy Morrison and the Pixie Prohibition. So, that’s my week in a nutshell: promote one free ebook, promote a fundraiser for my editor, and get an ebook ready for release in two weeks. And you better believe I’m going to feel splattered by Saturday. =^/

Okay, that’s the news for now. Thank you in advance for y’all folks who contribute to the campaign or share links, and to those of you downloading A Boy and His Dawg. Really appreciate all your support.