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on May 15
Todd Dills
backed a project
Tour for GHOSTS WITH SHIT JOBS, a Lo-fi Sci-fi Feature by Jim Munroe
If you buy our completed mockumentary now, we can go to different cities to start discussions about the future. And giant spiders.
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399% funded $19,999 pledged
- 820 backers
- Funded May 18, 2012
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on December 28
Todd Dills
backed a project
Turtleneck Press by Brian Warfield
Turtleneck Press makes small chapbooks of new writing. We are excited by innovation, weird feelings and strange ideas.
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on August 15, 2011
Todd Dills
Posted project update #12All Hands On and rewards have arrived, shipped
Post CommentA big thanks again to all of you for making this happen -- the book arrived with several others of its exact kind in boxes on a pallet unloaded from a large yellow/red highway tractor-trailer that, in a testament to the proliferation of stolen cable in the neighborhood, took down one of the nonregulation, too-low cable lines that snake their way through screens and screen doors into lonely upper rooms down our street a ways. A minor hiccup, really, to a truly awesome delivery.
A large amount of mailing now done, the book will have arrived on the large majority of your doorsteps by now -- if it hasn't, you probably haven't sent your address to me and I will likely bug you directly soon enough. In the meantime, feel free to send any updates direct to me at todd@the2ndhand.com.
And please share this news with any and everyone who may be interested in the collection. The central order page on THE2NDHAND.com is here: http://the2ndhand.com/THE2NDHANDTXT/books/. Credit card payments are easy there through Paypal, and details about mailorder are likewise available.
AHO is real. You are responsible. Again, thank you. Stay tuned to http://the2ndhand.com/THE2NDHANDTXT for release event info -- we'll be reading/performing and otherwise partying for it in the coming weeks/months in Nashville and Chicago, in Birmingham and Philadelphia, in NYC and Amherst. Hope to see and/or meet you at one of them.
A note about those who chose the reward with a bar of The Left Hand's T2H bergamot soap: the bars went out separate from the book, and should be arriving shortly if they haven't already.
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on July 10, 2011
Todd Dills
Posted project update #11THE2NDHAND no. 36.1, featuring Joe Meno
Post CommentWe're within days of sending All Hands On to the printer, folks, so if you haven't sent in your address via the request I sent out some time ago -- please email it direct to me at todd@the2ndhand.com. And: another sneak peak at new work in the book in our latest broadsheet -- a mini featuring "In the Avenues of Airplanes and paper, by Joe Meno. It's been 20 broadsheets and six years since Meno, once a THE2NDHAND regular, has appeared in the broadsheet. No surprise for the hiatus, really, given since then the prolific writer has put out two shorts collections and at least as many novels, in addition to becoming a father. Check out the lastest sheet via this link -- front-side image is below, too.
As for the new Meno joint, it’s called “In the Avenues of Airplanes and Paper,” captures the struggles of a young woman attempting to deal with a compulsive habit she has of putting “air quotes” around near everything she says — to the point, for instance, that she wears mittens on a date.
Within the peculiarity of it all Meno finds — and the protagonist locates as well, inside and outside of her self — the very essence of what it is to be human.
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on March 31, 2011
Todd Dills
Posted project update #10Reading in Nashville April 1 -- mailing addresses
Post CommentI wanted to let everyone here in Nashville know THE2NDHAND is launching with music maker Mike Willis a "new sort of Music City listening room" here tomorrow night, coincidentally 10 years to the date after the first reading/release party we held at Quimby's in Chicago (I remember: it was Fool's Day). You tell somebody in Nashville that you write, the assumption is near-automatic that you're talking about songs/music. Well, here's the antidote to that dynamic, perhaps, or more so just a night for some fun with music and readings. More here, but basic details forthwith. Stop in, enjoy a hot brew or a beer from the cafe and listen... But before we get there...
For those among you who haven't responded to requests for mailing info that should have gone out, if you selected a reward for your pledge here, please do respond. If you can't find the original request in your email, feel free to send mailing details directly to me at todd@the2ndhand.com. OK, here's the event info:
Friday, April 1, 6:30 p.m. on...
Story/song @ Casablanca Coffee, 602 12th Avenue South, Nashville (615) 942-7666
FEATURING prose work by: Nashville writer/Keyhole magazine editor Gabe Durham and THE2NDHAND editor Todd Dills; sketch theater by the burgeoning Nashville No Shame Theater crew, featuring among others Lynn Edwards, Dean Shortland, and Marin Miller; and music by Mike Willis, Noah Collins, Clay Evans, and others.
Stop in, enjoy a hot brew or a beer and listen.
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on March 1, 2011
Todd Dills
Posted project update #9Mailing information for rewards
Post CommentThough it will be a couple months yet before the entire "All Hands On" production is finished and ready to be shipped along with other rewards, I'll be sending along information to you via email about how you can most efficiently send along your mailing addresses.
Essentially, in the email from Kickstarter will be a link to an online form to fill out. Let me know directly if you're having problems with it. And fyi, there have been problems with a couple folks' pledges. If you've gotten emails from Kickstarter / Amazon Payments about this in the past week that you may have overlooked/forgotten, there's still time to address them, I believe. Let me know if there are problems, again. My direct email's todd@the2ndhand.com.
All in all, things are coming together well. I'll keep everyone in the loop on how progress is coming on the book via this page. As of now, I'm waiting on a couple things to fill the pages out, but am about two-thirds of way through on text layout. Good progress. . .
If you're in Chicago, too, hurry over to the Hungry Brain in the next half-hour for our monthly Nerves of Steel event. Here are the deets: http://the2ndhand.com/events/events.html.
Yrs, -Todd
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on February 16, 2011Funded!
All Hands On: THE2NDHAND After 10, a Reader by Todd Dills
THE2NDHAND, broadsheet and online (the2ndhand.com) home for new writing, celebrates its 10th anniversary with this book.
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110% funded $2,200 pledged
- 68 backers
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on February 15, 2011
Todd Dills
Posted project update #8Last 24 hours for pledging
Post CommentJust a quick note -- we're approaching the beginning of the pledging's end. It cuts off tomorrow early afternoon for those of you in Central and Eastern U.S., late morning on the West Coast. Any word you can get out to folks who may have been intending to pledge, do it now. And a big thanks to all here who've pledged to make this project happen. The book is in process and should be out and available, with your various rewards arriving at the same time, within the next few months. I'll be in touch gathering everyone's mailing addresses quite soon and will keep in touch via project updates here. More on that later.
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on February 9, 2011
Todd Dills
Posted project update #7Anniversary celebration in Nashville this weekend; Rob Funderburk in-process illustration "leaks" from All Hands On
Post CommentOne week left in the funding campaign, folks -- if you know anyone who'd planned on preordering, please let them know soon.
And to the Nashville residents among you, take heed -- ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION THIS COMING WEEKEND.
Eleven years to the day after our first-ever release party (on the fourth floor of 1278 N. Milwaukee in Chicago's Wicker Park neighborhood, above the venerable Diana Shoes), editors, contributors and readers convene this weekend at our favorite East Nashville coffeehouse for a reading/celebration, centered heavily around material to be feature in All Hands On (and with some new work as well). Details follow, or visit http://the2ndhand.com/events/events.html for more.
Saturday, Feb. 12, 7 p.m.
@ Portland Brew, 1921 Eastland Ave., Nashville, Tenn.With performances by:
*T2H shapeshifting collaborative writing crew of the Pitchfork Battalion
*T2H Louisville, Ky.-based coeditor C.T. Ballentine
*Birmingham-based Nadria Tucker
*Nashville’s own Matt Cahan
*Susannah Felts, Nashville-based author of the novel This Will Go Down on Your Permanent Record
*Nashville-based Henry Ronan-DaniellNashville-based wood-block printmaker Martin Cadieux will be on-hand showcasing his print work for this Kickstarter campaign, among other work.
And over on my blog (http://todddills.wordpress.com) this week I took time to share some of the work Chicago artist and former THE2NDHAND design man Rob Funderburk has been putting into author portraits for inclusion in AHO. Awesome stuff, I do say. I've attached some of the portraits below, but check out the blog for a better setup and an in-process demonstration-type image as well.
On the book front, things are proceeding well in terms of layout, and we're looking at being finished with it all within a couple months of the end of the campaign here, fyi. More on that in near future, of course. Thanks again to all of you for making this happen. As we used to bellow around here quite often, "Literate apes unite!" ... A fine slogan, still.
Thank you. -TD
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on January 27, 2011
Todd Dills
Posted project update #6Critical mass
Post CommentThanks to all of you, we've reached the goal with nearly three weeks to spare. After a bulletin sent out via FB last night, noting the very specific amount we needed to get to the $2,000 mark (i.e. $129), within minutes we were there thanks to a, well, $129 pledge. A few pledges following have put us well over the mark, and just in time for the two events upcoming in Chicago and Nashville Feb. 1 and 12, respectively. Check out http://the2ndhand.com/events/events.html for full information on the next installment of our So You Think You Have Nerves of Steel? series in Chicago (featuring Marc Baez, a contributor to All Hands On I've written about here, as well as the awesome hip-hop troupe Tomorrow Kings, among others) and our 11-year anniversary celebration in Nashville, chock-full of AHO contributors from Birmingham, Nashville and beyond.
Also, another "leak" from the book in Amanda Yskamp's THE SENTRY, now displayed marquee-style on the splash at http://the2ndhand.com. The pit bull therein stands guard in the front section for new work in AHO, and it's just a rip-roaring excellent story (jpg of the front side included below).
In the next couple weeks I'll be sharing some Rob Funderburk writer illustrations coming to fruition, likewise a few page spreads as we lay the book out in prep for the printer, and more. So stay tuned. And keep spreading the word as the drive nears its end. The more pledges we get, the more books we can print. Everything helps.
Many thanks! -TD
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Todd Dills
Nashville, TN
Todd Dills lives and writes in Nashville, Tenn., and is author of the 2006 novel "Sons of the Rapture." He edits and publishes THE2NDHAND (http://the2ndhand.com), which he founded in 2000 in Chicago.
