With shrinking & disappearing outlets, we need a place to read great ski/snowboard writing. I'm publishing great writing in an ebook.
How it started: With an email. A leading ski writer fesses up to his night in a ski-town drunk-tank. His tale is the embodiment of humiliation… and of my favorite ski writing—personal, quirky, compelling.
My first thought: I would kill to publish this.
The Big Aha: I can publish this and more. I’ll create an eBook. A skiBook eBook.
The action: I immediately contact North America’s finest snow writers, plus one Brit.
Their mission: “Stories must be personal, revealing, embarrassing, brilliantly written. Think intense—intensely funny, tragic, exciting—intense.”
The result: Exceeds my sweetest dreams—the writers send me astonishing literature. I laugh, I cry, I marvel. The resulting eBook, SKIING THE EDGE, is a wild, uproarious, heart-wrenching, utterly brilliant ride.
Only problem: I insist on paying writers. Not enough folks have shelled out $3.99 to finance a SKIING THE EDGE, Volume 2. And the world needs more great snow writing.
The solution: That would be you. The world needs more great snow writing, and you can help make it happen.
Glittering prizes: Your reward, in addition to the satisfaction that comes from helping literature thrive, includes free books (e- and otherwise, adult and kiddy-lit), bountiful thanks, free consultations, eternal gratitude.
FAQ
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Oh, how right you are, Chris. We are the creators of the app, SAN FRANCISCO RESTAURANTS, which takes you off the Tourist Reservation at into the places San Franciscans love to eat.
So, starting now, anyone contributing $200 or more gets a Dutch Treat dinner with us and gets to see how we evaluate a restaurant and put together an app entry.
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Oh, how right you are, Chris. We are the creators of the app, SAN FRANCISCO RESTAURANTS, which takes you off the Tourist Reservation and into the places San Franciscans love to eat.
So, starting now, anyone contributing $200 or more gets a Dutch Treat dinner with us and gets to see how we evaluate a restaurant and put together an app entry.
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Funding Unsuccessful This project reached the deadline without achieving its funding goal on April 29, 2012.
Funding period
Mar 30, 2012 -
Apr 29, 2012
(30 days)
- First created · 3 backed
- Jules Older 200 friends
- Website: julesolder.com
Pledge $5 or more
3 backers
A copy of the eBook, SKIING THE EDGE: Humor, Humiliation, Holiness and Heart, on any e-platform or as a PDF.
Estimated delivery: Jun 2012Pledge $10 or more
6 backers
A copy of SKIING THE EDGE + SKIING THE EDGE, Volume 2.
Estimated delivery: Dec 2012Pledge $25 or more
4 backers
A copy of SKIING THE EDGE + SKIING THE EDGE, Volume 2 + "Publishing the eBook: The FAQs" by Jules Older
Estimated delivery: Dec 2012Pledge $50 or more
1 backer
All of the above + the Olders’ two Apple apps, San Francisco Restaurants and Auckland Insider.
Estimated delivery: Dec 2012Pledge $75 or more
2 backers
All of the above + a signed copy of the new children’s book, SNOWMOBILE: Bombardier’s Dream Machine by Jules Older.
Estimated delivery: Dec 2012Pledge $150 or more
0 backers
All of the above + your name in the Grateful Thank You section of SKIING THE EDGE, Volume 2.
Estimated delivery: Dec 2012Pledge $500 or more
0 backers
All of the above + a signed copy of TOUCHING IS HEALING by Jules Older + an hour consultation with Jules about writing, editing, publishing, broadcasting, surviving the Digital Age and/or anything else he knows anything about.
Estimated delivery: Dec 2012Pledge $1,000 or more
0 backers
All of the above, but instead of an hour’s consultation, you get half a day, either in person (if we're both in the same place at the same time) or by Skype, phone or email.
Estimated delivery: Dec 2012
