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This project successfully raised its funding goal on November 17, 2009.
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HEY TANKS. You will get to say "Thank you for making your other three books available for free, but here's two bucks anyway!" and I will say, "Hey, thanks!" Plus, you'll get to read my blog posts here & monitor developments on the new book.
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DIGIBOOK. You get a nice digital version of Creation Science (PDF) as soon as it's done. Plus access to the project blog, etc.
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BOOK BOOK. A nifty printed & bound copy of Creation Science. (Shipping included in USA.) Plus DIGIBOOK. Please add $2 for personalized inscription.
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ONE AND ONE. One of Acts of the Apostles, Cheap Complex Devices or The Pains shipped to you when this project has been funded, and Creation Science when it's done. (Shipping included in USA). I have lots of Pains, fewer of Acts and CCD. First come, first served. Please add $3 for personalized inscriptions in each book.
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THE OUEVRE. One copy each of Acts of the Apostles, Cheap Complex Devices, and The Pains shipped to you when this project has been funded, and Creation Science when it's done (Shipping included in USA). Please add $5 for personalized inscriptions in all four books.
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POSTER PACK. Four copies of Creation Science inscribed any way you like, plus a signed poster of the book cover art. Size of poster and artist TBD, but you'll like it, I promise.
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PATRON. You get 1 Poster Pack, plus, I thank you profusely in the acknowledgments. Plus, if you like, you can see all early drafts and watch the book develop and offer suggestions.
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COLLECTOR'S EDITION (Acts of the Apostles). You get 1 Patron Pack, plus, a souvenir pack of nifty stuff from my Acts of the Apostles archives, including my original notebooks, copies of correspondence with my agent, dozens of rejection letters from New York publishing houses, one-of-a-kind mockups, etc. After Creation Science has outsold Harry Potter, you'll be able to sell this on Ebay for a fortune.
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COLLECTOR'S EDITION (Cheap Complex Devices). You get 1 Patron Pack, plus, a souvenir pack of nifty stuff from my CCD archives, including my original notebooks, one-of-a-kind mockups, etc. After Creation Science has outsold Harry Potter, you'll be able to sell this on Ebay for a fortune.
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COLLECTOR'S EDITION (The Pains). You get 1 Patron Pack, plus, a souvenir pack of nifty stuff from my Pains archives, including my original notebooks, copies of correspondence with the illustrator Cheeseburger Brown, one-of-a-kind mockups, etc. After Creation Science has outsold Harry Potter, you'll be able to sell this on Ebay for a fortune.
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COLLECTOR'S EDITION (Creation Science). You get 1 Patron Pack, plus, a souvenir pack of nifty stuff from my Creation Science archives, including my original notebooks, copies of correspondence with my editor, one-of-a-kind mockups, etc. After Creation Science has outsold Harry Potter, you'll be able to sell this on Ebay for a fortune.
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MARTHA'S VINEYARD RETREAT. You and a friend can be my guest for a weekend next spring or summer at my house on Martha's Vineyard. Join me and my wife for three days and two nights at our tiny but friendly house in Vineyard Haven. You'll stay in our guest room; we'll provide breakfast, give you a guided tour of the island, lend you one of our cars for up to five hours, let you borrow our bikes, and you'll be the guest of honor at a dinner party for which Dear Wife Betty will prepare a meal of at least 5 courses. Includes one PATRON PACK.
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I'm the author of the novels Acts of the Apostles, Cheap Complex Devices, and The Pains, all of which can be downloaded for free from wetmachine.com. I've also written a bunch of award-winning essays for Salon.
I've done famine relief & agricultural development work in west Africa (5 years), have spent 22 of the last 30 years in high tech (Silicon Valley & Boston areas), the other 8 years as truck driver, construction laborer, and novelist. I volunteer at a food pantry that my wife founded & runs, and I'm a volunteer firefighter.
Keep on keeping on John and don't get too distracted by the Real World - generally I have found it to be an overrated underachiever best ignored.
Thanks, bro.
Couldn't have done it without you. That is literally true. I mean "you", Mike Pence.
Also for my birthday, and to my surprise, the voters of the town of Tisbury voted to build the new fire station. Lots of hard work by lots of hard-working people doing civic duty for no pay went into that.
I had really hoped for 400 backers on this project, but getting 400 backers takes time! If I had set the clock at 2 months instead of 1 month, I probably could have hit that goal. But in terms of the $$ and the vote of confidence of my backers, I could not be more pleased & proud.
So now it's time to write a book that matches your confidence in me. I think I can do that, but it will take serious effort & all my concentration.
Thanks again,
jrs
Happy Birthday, John! What a wonderful day for you, and for all of us, by proxy!