alexdecampi: I wrote a novel.And hey, I need your help to get it published. The Scottish Boy, my vio
alexdecampi: I wrote a novel.And hey, I need your help to get it published. The Scottish Boy, my violent, sexy medieval thriller (knights! jousting! angst! murder!) just went up on Unbound, a British crowdfunding publisher. It’s got a beautiful cover by Joey Hi-Fi and will have six gorgeous illustrations throughout its hefty 12 chapters by @trungles.I’m really, really proud of this book, even though everyone in publishing tells me medieval books don’t sell, and neither do books where the main pairing is queer. Please check out the book’s funding page here, and if it sounds like something you’d enjoy, please consider pre-ordering it. All I need is 500 pre-orders and then this book becomes an actual thing that will be in bookstores. The funding page has a dorky video and one of Trung’s illustrations and a circa 1200-word excerpt from the novel. I’ll be posting more excerpts and illos and my maps that I’m drawing for the book. There’s lots to look at, and cool rewards up to and including samizdat drunk history notes and me writing you custom short stories set in this ‘verse. The novel is huge: 135k, corrected and expanded beyond the beta version some of you may have read.Why Unbound, and not Kickstarter? I want to produce the most professional book possible and get it into bookstores. Unbound can do that for me – I have a real editor who is even now sharpening his red pencil; there’s a real production team; and marketing that will help this book live in stores beyond its brief fundraising campaign. Also, I don’t have to stick books in envelopes and cart them to the post office. I feel you get a better book, through the professional infrastructure of Unbound, than you would if I did it all myself. This also means if you can’t afford it right now or just want to wait and think about getting it later, you’ll be able to do that via your local bookseller or library. (<3 libraries <3)Anyway. Please take a look. Also the sooner this is funded the sooner I will shut up about it. -- source link