Pledge Support For An Author

I’m always interested when I come across novel approaches by authors to, well, novel writing! I’ve been very impressed by Stu Noss and Misty Provencher and their blovels (novels presented chapter by chapter on blogs), and by Aden Moss’s Twitter fiction. A Tweet alerted me to another interesting project underway. It read: “Pledge as little as $1 to help an awesome indie horror author publish his next book & get an advance e-copy! http://kck.st/vCp5Ed #RT”

I had to check this out. The website link takes you here.

Gabriel Beyers is planning to self-publish a collection of short stories entitled Contemplations of Dinner and a paranormal thriller novel Predatory Animals. He reckons he’ll need $3,500 to fund this, and needs to get this amount by 17 December. Gabriel has put a lot of thought into this. There is a list of what benefits you’ll get according to how much you pledge. For example, if you pledge $5 then you get an advance digital copy of Predatory Animals and Gabriel’s very sincere thanks. Pledge $100 and you’ll receive a hard cover copy of the book, as well the advance digital copy, a digital copy of another of Gabriel’s books, a signed poster featuring the book’s cover art, a signed printout of the first draft of the book and a mention in the book’s dedications. If you pledge $250 then you also get the chance to name a character in the story! All very innovative and plucky. I offered to contribute to the project by doing the editing for Gabriel, since I’m so impressed with this venture and I’m keen to get ebook-ed.it properly up and running, but he has someone already lined up. Maybe next time.

What do you think of this idea? Will it work? Will it catch on? It’s ingenious so I really hope it proves to be a winner for Gabriel.