Assist Sublimation Pressworks in publishing an edition of poetry entitled "The Marchioness in Red."
In 2010, I spent a year living and travelling around the Orient (Cambodia, South Korea, Thailand, and Vietnam). As a follow up to my first book "The Invisible Histories of the Spiral Mountain," I’ve created "The Marchioness in Red," a collection of 12 religio-erotic poems, 4 digital collages, and an Oriental/Occidental sexuality comparison essay inspired by my travels in the Orient and my subsequent return to the United States.
I am now ready to embark upon the next phase of my life which includes writing a 100 page novella. I feel that Kickstarter.com can help me achieve my goals by providing an opportunity to market my books independently. The sales from "The Marchioness in Red" will provide me with capitol for my next project called "The Erotic Tales of Bucephalus."
"The Erotic Tales of Bucephalus" will be a 100 page novella published Christmas 2011. The collection of episodic stories will center on Alexander the Great’s mighty steed Bucephalus who dies in the Battle of the Hydaspes in 326 BCE. After his death, he awakens in human form in a dilapidated modern-day hotel room. In these first-person tales Bucephalus learns of the eternal struggle between beast and man by indulging in licentious engagements with the hotel’s occupants: an elusive room-hopping nymph, a tattooed dominatrix widower, and aged prostitute named Olympias.
In 2009, I also wrote my first book, a parabolic autobiography entitled "The Invisible Histories of the Spiral Mountain." The self-published work was a 362 page narrative relating the labyrinthine quest of a knight-errant into a sort of dream world of the erotic: a sensuous, idealized realm of possibilities. To help support "The Marchioness in Red" and "The Erotic Tales of Bucephalus," Sublimation Pressworks has made available a new limited edition hardcover version of "The Invisible Histories of the Spiral Mountain" (The coffee table edition includes all of the illustrations from the original one-of-a-kind edition of the book). There is also a paperback version (sorry... no illustrations) for those that can't afford the coffee table version.
Check out the work @ http://www.facebook.com/pages/Christopher-Kramer
and http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sublimation-Pressworks
To be able to achieve my goal, I need to raise enough money to fund the creation, production, marketing, and distribution for my next book which will be promoted on my new Sublimation Pressworks website (details to come). I've set my goal low ($1,000), but I need much more to make this all happen. With your donations, I can make this possible.
I thank you for the opportunity to submit this proposal for your consideration.
Sincerely,
Christopher Kramer
P.S. "The Marchioness in Red" is the perfect erotic Christmas gift!
Note: Please email around my link, let people know about the books—and make sure they follow up with a pledge! And if you have a network like Facebook or Twitter, share the link! Due to the high cost of international shipping, the minimum bid amount to ship outside the U.S. is $50.
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