Kickstarter

Thanks for visiting my project!

What is The Kickstarter Letters?
I funded the entire print run of my second novel, A Greater Monster, through a Kickstarter project.* As a reward, I wrote each of my 128 contributors a stream-of-consciousness email or handwritten letter. This book is a signed & numbered handmade, hardback collection of 52 of those letters.

What’s going on in these letters?
I used either the contributor’s name or a suggestion he or she made as inspiration, as a starting point for stream-of-consciousness** writing. It’s essentially improv writing. In this collection, you’ll find ridiculous dialogues, flash fiction, personal confessions, rants, cultural commentary, and outlandish weirdness that I liberated from my brain. I tried not to judge or censor.

But are there pictures?
Why yes, as a matter of fact, Mike Wilgus, who designed the cover and interior layout of A Greater Monster, developed the cover art and interior illustrations to complement twenty of the letters.

Handmade you say?

Indeed. The Kickstarter Letters is being published by Jason Pettus who is editor-in-chief and owner of the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography. He specializes in personally making beautiful books for his authors.The pages of The Kickstarter Letters are hand-stitched together then wrapped with faux leather. The beautiful design alone makes it a great coffee table book or holiday gift. Not that you won’t want to read it, too. There are words inside.

Music?
I’ve included a playlist for both Spotify and Youtube of songs that I listened to while writing The Kickstarter Letters. They would make a resonant accompaniment to the reading of said letters.

But is it worth reading what you have to say?
Always with the tough questions. Take a look at reviews of both of my novels on Amazon (A Greater Monster and Death by Zamboni), and you can download a PDF of the first 15 pages of A Greater Monster on my website: daviddavid.net/novels) And here’s one letter, too.

Isn’t this whole thing a little too meta?
I certainly hope so.

*My Greater Monster Kickstarter project lived here: kck.st/daviddavid
**Whatever you do, don’t cross the streams-of-consciousness.