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Pick Your Battle

Update #38 · Jul 20, 2010 · comment

I want to thank everyone again for pledging to the "Pick Your Battle" book project. I'm still a bit overwhelmed by the support. One hundred and sixty-five backers of a radical self-help book on how to create an alternative economics based around the idea of abundant cities and mutual aid is a very good thing.

I've been wandering lately, finding fruit, writing a bit, but also putting my feet up a bit. So sorry for the delay.

If you haven't heard my interview with Eileen Workman you can find the link to that interview below. She has some very enlightened and interesting things to say about Sacred Economics and Transcending Capitalism.

Also I've decided to blog my progress and to blog some of the actual book as I write it. So the best way to keep up with my progress will be to follow my blog at douglaslain.com, to listen to the Diet Soap podcast, to sign up for the Diet Soap newsletter (you can find the form for that on my blog or at dietsoap.podomatic.com) and to keep checking here for more updates.

The fine folks at Eberhardt press have agreed to print the book when it's finished in October. You can find out more about that press here:

http://www.eberhardtpress.org/

Again thank you. Here's that link to the Eileen Workman interview, and keep watching this space and all the others for more details on Picking a Battle.

http://dietsoap.podOmatic.com/entry/eg/2010-07-15T02_29_48-07_00

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  • Pledge $1 or more

    19 backers

    Receive a copy of my newest Short Story "Noam Chomsky and the Time Box" as a pdf file.

  • Pledge $9 or more

    3 backers

    Updated pledge level: All pledges of this much or more will now have access to the pdf of the book.

  • Pledge $10 or more

    25 backers

    Same as above plus you'll receive emails on the project while I'm exploring Portland looking for fruit trees and people, travelogues, updates on podcasts relating to the project, plus digital photos of apples and pears.

  • Pledge $15 or more

    22 backers

    Updated pledge level: All pledges of this much or more will now have access to an actual physical copy of the book, and it will be signed.

  • Pledge $20 or more

    21 backers

    Same as $10 pledge plus a pdf copy of "Pick Your Battle" book.

  • Pledge $35 or more

    38 backers

    Same as above plus a signed copy of the actual physical perfect bound book.

  • Pledge $50 or more

    7 backers

    Same as above plus a collection of CDs of related podcasts.

  • Pledge $100 or more

    6 backers

    Same as above plus some dried fruit shipped priority mail along with the book.

  • Pledge $500 or more

    3 backers

    Same as above and you'll be personally thanked in the acknowledgements of the book, you'll receive two signed copies of the book, and original artwork from me or a member of my family.

  • Pledge $1,000 or more

    0 backers

    Everything above plus a small basket of fruit delivered along with your books, a signed copy of my short story collection "Last Week's Apocalypse," and a signed copy of my novel "Billy Moon:1968" when it comes out from Tor next year.

  • Pledge $5,000 or more

    0 backers

    You'll get the books, fruit, CDs, artwork, and I will fly anywhere within the United States to meet with you and present a talk about the Pick Your Battle project to you, your friends, and/or local organization.