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What’s the project? A Trilogy of Bears: Falling For A Bear, Summer Camp and the as yet un-finished and un-posted Tiger Winter. The three novellas will be collected together in the same book as they all take place within the same universe and share some of the same characters. More information about the stories can be found below. What is crowdsourcing? In simple terms, crowdsourcing is promising to invest in a product or service, in this, a book, before it is actually complete. In this case, investing in A Trilogy of Bears will guarantee you a copy of the books with exclusive content, and potentially lots of other exclusive content depending on how much you invest. Is it safe? Yes: if the total amount of money needed for the project is not reached, no money changes hands at all and we all go back to the beginning. If the full amount of money is reached (yes please) then the money comes to me and I produce the goods. Hopefully by now you all know me (and my editing team) enough to trust us to deliver as promised. Because we will. The books for the U.S. will be shipped by Kitt, the books for the UK and mainland Europe will be shipped directly from me. What in the idea behind this project crowdsourcing? Although all the stories will be available on GA indefinitely, there’s nothing quite like owning your own copy of something. A book you can read on the train without peering at your phone and can take to bed and the bath. The money raised through the crowdsourcing project is needed for a couple of purposes. Firstly to pay the artists for cover and in-book artwork, secondly to give some genuine credit to the editors who spend literally hundreds of hours making my look all clean and polished, and thirdly to give me the time to write and finish the work as well as I would like too. Books sold through Amazon and similar give absolutely fractional percentages to authors, and though Lulu.com revenues are better, it’s still basically publishing and giving your books away for nothing. Thirdly the crowdsourced version of the book will have exclusive content! (more below) Hey, what’s all this exclusive content you’re on about? Exclusive content is just that, things that will only be available to those who invest in the book through crowdsourcing. These include but are not limited to: artwork, character reference sheets of the main pairings, formally told ‘myths and legends’ style versions of the four Shifter Creation Myths, hardback copies, and personal on-request character scenes and sketches. Sounds fun? We think so too. About the books: Falling For A Bear: Hoyt Ford likes clean cut skinny boys with good hair, which are hard to find when you have gone to live with your older brother and his wife in the middle of nowhere. So when his senses tell him he's falling for the big butch lumberjack who lives on the other side of the river, he tries to run from the feeling, and straight into the furry arms of Mato, an actual black bear he meets in the woods. Summer Camp: Paddy is a bear. Literally. He's twenty and he's got a job at a summer camp in the semi-wilderness for kids and school groups. There he meets Troy, and instinct kicks in to tell the pair that well done, they have found their soul mates. But the pair of young men know practically nothing about each other, and instead of being able to screw like wild animals in the woods they need to spend the next four months surrounded by humans, children, and job responsibilities. Tiger Winter: Emmett Garrick changes a lot about his life when he decides to grow up and move across the city to share a house with a Chinese Panda: he has to buy furniture, do the washing up, and gets himself a cute boyfriend named Zeke. But when his housemate’s cousin comes to stay, Emmett realises that he got a lot more in this friend than he bargained for. Hopefully you now feel able to cast a vote. Please let me know what you think, and also what sort of exclusive content stretch goals you would like to see when the project opens up. Our timeline is to hopefully have a book in your hands sometime in February/March.
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