Kickstarter

Just over a year ago, SURVIVANOIA was released as an e-book.   Sales have been thin but steady.  Yet for every electronic copy sold, three people ask when it will be available in paperback. 

Many, many people still prefer an ink-and-paper book.  Truth be told, I am one of them.  But getting a book printed costs money.  Hence, this Kickstarter project.

 The book is formatted, but the back cover and spine still need to be designed and executed.  Some of the money will be used for that.  Most of it, however, will go to the cost of printing 100ish copies of the paperback.  Some of these will be sent to book stores for sale on consignment, some taken to the book launch party and book signings; some rewarded to backers, of course!  We will send a handful  to reviewers at  noteworthy publications, and give a few to random famous people who will hopefully be photographed wearing them thus making them popular with the kids.   

 You might be thinking:  Yeah, yeah so you want to be a writer that’s great.  How do I know you can even write?  That this book is any good? What’s this silly book about, anyway?

 Reviewers have compared Survivanoia to the works of Carl Hiaasen, Douglas Adams, and Joseph Heller.  So it is silly! And it’s absurd.  But it’s also a good story (if I do say so myself)!  Here is the description from the website:

http://www.admiralofthered.com/?page_id=8

 Set five minutes from now in Los Angeles, this darkly humored and  bizarrely optimistic satire centers on the Survivanoia Corporation–Purveyors of the Post-Apocalypse.  The company creates and distributes items like the Sofa Coffin, Constant War Gear, and Bird Flu Vaccine to a world that thinks it needs them.

Nine narratives intertwine, revealing the struggle of one woman to fix things:  When it comes to light that Survivanoia has not only created the dreaded Flower Flu, but is withholding the cure for it, Baroness Dacianna Von Worthington decides to make things right, by taking over the company.

Joining the Baroness are the commonplace eccentrics inhabiting this modern life including:

Dr. Encludsmo Stuckhowsen, a scientist living under a giant sign that says “Put Cheese on Stuff;”

Eddie Bloodworth, a twenty-something suing his mother for not aborting him;

and Jackson Blake, a beach bum slowly transforming into his once-famous television character, a hired vigilante killer.

Can this cast of not-quite-nutters help the Baroness steer Survivanoia to higher ground? Or will all the World be consumed by the Flower Flu…and jogging suits that recycle your sweat so you can shower while you run?

“If Carl Hiaasen and T.C. Boyle had had a love child, that Wild Child would have written this book.  Since that is biologically impossible, Baroness Von Smith has written it instead.”

 

If we've made you smile and piqued your interest, we ask that you help us out by donating whatever you can.  Every dollar helps ~that's why there are rewards at every level. 

Thanks for reading! 

~The Baroness

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