Launched the #Kickstarter at http://kck.st/RaifStory Come Support the new #SciFi #Novel in the #PhoenicianSeries

At long last, the Kickstarter Project for Raif's Story has launched! After just a few hours on the first day, funding is at 5% but that leaves a lot of crowd yet to come!

Please come join the crowd funding the next novel in the Phoenician Series by clicking here. There are multiple pledge amounts from which to choose but they'll all do the same thing: help make Raif's Story a reality!

The idea behind crowdfunding is simple: when you have a crowd of people, even if each person only pledges a small amount ($10, $25, etc.), if there are enough people in the crowd, there's enough fudning to move the project forward.

I plan to write to several of you directly, asking for your help, but I really need help getting the word out to people I don't already know. If you can retweet, reshare or reblog this post, I'd really appreciate it. And that won't cost you any money at all!

Then again, if you're rich and really believe in the Phoenician Series, you can pledge one of the highest levels of support and get written into the book! For a pledge of $1500 you can be Redshirted. That is, I'll name a Proctor character after you and then kill you, just like a member of the Away Team's Security on Star Trek.

I have the scene already written and just stuck some placeholder notes in there for myself, using "[unnamed Proctor]" to indicate where I still need to decide what to call the poor blokes who'll die so that Shayla might live. You'll die a valiant death for her sake, I can promise you that. I can even offer to collaborate with you to some extent on which one of the planned Proctor deaths will be yours. Only one death is already written: Lawrence, Raif's friend and bunkmate. You cannot be him. Unless your name is Lawrence? ^)^

I'm offering some nice rewards: T shirts and posters of the cover art and bookmarks and even coffee mugs. and best of all, everyone gets a copy of the book! Click through to pledge your support for however much you can then share the link (http://kck.st/RaifStory) with your friends, family, coworkers or anyone you know who might be interested in science fiction.

Only 28 days left to go - let's get this party started!

-Friday
@phoenicianbooks