ONE WEEK LEFT
We're halfway to the Kickstarter goal with 7 days left. Thanks to all of you who have made pledges. I've been much entertained and gratified by your messages of support.
To those of my readers sitting this one out, get off your derrieres (sculpted and comely, I'm sure) and help. Think of it as buying a book early as a favor to Louis Benfield, Jane Elizabeth Firesheets, Benton Lynch, Mary Alice Celestine Lefler, Ray Tatum, Kate LeComte, Donald Atwell, Momma and Daddy, the bald Jeeter, and any of the rest of the gang who pops to mind.
It's a new age of patronage. Jump in. Here's the link.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1...
To those of my readers sitting this one out, get off your derrieres (sculpted and comely, I'm sure) and help. Think of it as buying a book early as a favor to Louis Benfield, Jane Elizabeth Firesheets, Benton Lynch, Mary Alice Celestine Lefler, Ray Tatum, Kate LeComte, Donald Atwell, Momma and Daddy, the bald Jeeter, and any of the rest of the gang who pops to mind.
It's a new age of patronage. Jump in. Here's the link.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1...
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Jun 15, 2013 11:36PM
We would look in better health if the half-way point hadn't been reached courtesy of one big pledge. I stayed away from my refresh button for two days and the total did rise a bit, but I nearly resumed smoking cigarettes after 20 years. Happy thoughts, happy thoughts. Oh, and you missed out my favourite; Mr. Wade "Shorty" Glidewell's brother's boy Lyle.
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I'd so much like to see this happen, I upped my pledge and got us over the half-way hump. Come on folks, send this out to anyone whom you've bought a Pearson book for, recommended one to, loaned one to, read passages to, everyone in your book club(s) or reading group, American lit teachers and professors, your kids . . . anyone who appreciates literary fiction, creative non-fiction, even your least favorite brother-in-law.
You'll feel better. T.R. gets his project off the ground. It's a "Win-win, Loose"!
[Edit] At least I thought it got us over $6,000. I could have sworn we were over $5,900, and I just added $150, but it says we're at $5,990. Odd.
Thank you gentlemen. Thanks for upping your pledge, Mike. Maybe that's how Kickstarter makes money: bad math. I'm trying to keep hope alive, but I'm a little sleepy.
It might take a few minutes to update the total, but it's showing over $6,000 now. It's all downhill from here (in a good way). Can we have half a book please? What about a Dickensian serialization? Not clutching at straws at all.
Hey! $15! Every cent is a cent in the right direction.
I upped my pledge, too, given that one of the other Kickstarter campaigns I was supporting failed. I took that money and kicked in (see how I did that?) some more. Quelle anxiety!
Thank you, Cynthia. That's very generous of you. While it would be helpful and gratifying to make the goal, at this point I'd simply like to see more readers showing up. If I can fit my entire fan base into a hotel room, I should probably go back to painting houses.Tidy thematically anyway.
I'm rapidly losing my school spirit and with it my will to lead the cheers, but I will raise my bedraggled pom-poms again for A Pledge. They are still trickling in and where there's life etc. We still have a week!
A clerihew.Admirers of Neely
Give compliments freely,
But are rather repressed
When it's time to invest.
Very nice. I've got more of a limerick in mind.
Pearson does't rhyme well, believe me, I've tried. Unless you go the Ogden Nash "anything for a rhyme" route. I'm all agog for your effort.
A limerick.The creator of Neely and Tatum
Gave fans a unique ultimatum.
"I'm glad to compose
If you'll pay for the prose."
Was the gist, I'm not quoting verbatum (sic).
Now you've gone and saved me the trouble. Thanks for that.
I was so pleased that "verbatim" (nearly) rhymed that I couldn't wait. It feels a bit like the last day of school, when you can wear your party clothes and bring in board-games. Demob happy, giddy with incipient failure.
The tattered pennants rattle in the light breeze and whisper "Pledge". At this rate it will all be over by Christmas, none the less, A Pledge.
Here's a thought; perhaps there are hundreds of backers who think it funny to delay their donations to the last possible moment. What an amusing tactic, the scamps! That must be it, stands to reason.
Purely for the sake of it, ( yay a pledge). My voice is barely audible against the thunderous white noise of universal indifference.
After what we've been through, you deserve to know what I look like. This is not intended as a punishment.
I hardly feel punished. You look a lot like me but with hair. Thanks for the cheerleading and encouragement. It'll all be over soon.
"A sentence containing 400 words and eight verbs was not unusual. (He) often repeated himself and, at the same time his vocabulary became much more complex, creative and colourful."Remind you of anyone? It is a description of some of King George III'S letter writing peculiarities.
Perhaps you could trace a royal lineage.
I'll wait until tomorrow before I make a comment, so as not to jinx the minor miracle which is poised in the wings. I'm not a person of faith, but it is said that there are no atheists in the foxholes, I might murmur a little something and point it skywards.
Is there anything of you in "Expats". To read, or not to bother?
I don't know why that book pops up with mine. I don't know anything about it. Quirk of the algorithm.
Ah, it must be the Warren Littlefield connection. Mystery solved.
It is, at least, a blessing that no-one had the poor taste to make extravagant pledges in the teeth of certain failure.In over view, mea-partia-culpa. I urged you to take what I considered a bold, but fairly safe, wager on your popularity and the respect in which you are (and you ARE) held by your readers. The failure, as it must be named, was a failure of communication alone. Not enough of the right people knew about it. (More people chat with Pynchon.)
For myself, I found the experience fraught but in the end rewarding. It was my honour and privelege to be in contact with you over the month. How many readers can say that their favourite writer knows who they are, where they are and even what they look like? Cry Me a River is the best novel I have ever read and many of your other offerings are well into my top 10.
Onward and upwards. You've taken a bit of a body blow in a writer's most tender spot, his reputation. Please don't let one doomed crusade turn you away from the task you are palpably born to do. The composition of wonderful fiction. Whatever you do, Gavin, tv or film I will always support you in the only way I can, buying, reading, enjoying you and torturing my friends with my evangelism.
"Farewell, brave goal." ( Tosses scented hankie into yawning pit.)Chin up! We gave it a damned good try. Like the wagered bisection of a sister-in law; we were persuaded we might could, figured anyhow we'd make a go of it.
A short three hours to go, and it looks as though we're not going to make it to the finish line. Were we closer, I'd ante up a bit more to see the goal reached. I wish our combined internet "reach" were greater or that there was a way to find a wider audience of potential donors.Whatever you decide to do with your writing and otherwise, T.R., know that there are some folks who will always support you.
So far it's thee and me on the death-watch, Mike. Not even any rubberneckers hoping for blood.
Thanks for the good wishes, gentlemen. I very much appreciate your support throughout. I'll post something tomorrow, I imagine. It's a bit disappointing to have such a meager turnout, but life goes on.
Re. Your Kickstarter statement; I am absolutely delighted. You may still have my email from the time you sent me the Beluga mobi. I have your rg1 address. It's great news that your work isn't going to wither on the vine.
