Kickstarter Project!

Dear literary-minded folk,

 

I hope you are all doing well. Just writing in the interest of shameless plugging. I have a Kickstarter project! It can be found here: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1329246557/guerilla-fairy-tale-marketing-for-elwin-and-christ?ref=email Me and my fellow genre writer Christine Stoddard are working on a project based on the Ace science fiction double novels from the 1960s and 70s. One half of the book will be hers, the other half mine. We are in negotiations with Six Gallery Press, the publishing firm that produced my first book. Being a small press writer is not easy. There is much that you have to handle yourself, and we've got all sorts of ideas regarding marketing. Being highly independent people, Christine and I are trying to raise a modest $1000 with which to do independent promotion for a May 2012 release.
 
A bit about us:

 

Writer, performer, and artist Christine Stoddard has won recognition from USA Today, The Poetry Society of Virginia, The National League of Pen Women, The Washington Post, the International Cinematographer's Guild, and many other companies and organizations. Comicality, the magazine she co-edits with artist David Fuchs, appears in the permanent collections of The Glasgow School of Art and Virginia Commonwealth University. Two of her book art projects appear in Virginia Commonwealth University's permanent collection. Furthermore, Christine is the founder of The D.C. Indie Arts Festival and The VCU Reel Dame Film Festival. She is also the founder and executive director of Quail Bell Press and Productions, LLC, which operates Quail Bell Magazine.

 

Her side of the project is Once Upon a Body, a collection of fairy tale-inspired graphic work dealing with women's body issues. It was her project as a Cyberpunk Apocalypse visiting writer in 2010, and is the culmination of many years of graphic work.

 

Me? I am the author of The Jack Daniels Sessions EP, a collection of myth-based short stories that has received accolades from notable authors and critics. I have toured the country as a writer and performance artist and sat on literary panels at a number of genre conventions.

 

The Motley & Plume Players is my first novel-length work. Its foundations lay in a novelette I started writing in 2006, which has since expanded in many different directions. It is a story about love, obsession, memory, regret, the repercussions of words said and unsaid, and the magic of the theater. My good friend Vanessa Strickland is doing illustrations for it, so the spirit of collaboration is high. In this piece I have had the opportunity to further explore my interest in melding the domestic and the fantastic, and I feel it is my finest work.

 

Did I mention there are donor incentives? My personal favorite is reading the donor a story via Skype. They also include a free copy of my short story collection, the upcoming audiobook, original artwork from Christine and, another favorite, a short story written for YOU.
 
I am very excited for this project, and to have all sorts of launch parties and readings next spring. We are two up-and-coming authors who do things our own way, and any bit helps. Thanks!

 

Elwin Michael Cotman
Author. Performance artist. Storyteller.
www.lookmanoagent.blogspot.com
The Jack Daniels Sessions EP is out now!

http://www.amazon.com/Jack-Daniels-Sessions-Ep/dp/1926616170/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1295836458&sr=1-1
Facebook group:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/group.php?gid=274822316789
 
"The Jack Daniels Sessions EP is revolutionary, riveting and remarkable. Elwin Cotman's prose grabs you from word one, and you don't want it to let you go. This book marks the unveiling of a major new voice in science fiction and fantasy." — Charles R. Saunders, author of Imaro
 
"Cotman has an amazing voice, and his fabulist descriptions are so vividly communicated, they almost lift from the page and become three-dimensional beings that are impossible images to forget."—Savannah Schroll Guz, author of The Famous & The Anonymous
 
"Mr. Cotman’s interests are wide-ranging: Punk rock intersects with D.C.’s Dominican community, African American folktale intersects with Greek myth, Goth teen suburban angst in 1990s Ohio sits side by side with racist atrocity in the pre-Civil Rights South, and magic is going on. Yeah, there’s magic in some of these stories, but the real magic is in Cotman’s words themselves—stark and deadpan one moment, lushly descriptive the next."—Michael S. Begnal, author of Ancestor Worship
 
"In The Jack Daniels Sessions, folktales and modern landscapes collide, exploding and reforming in the form of an intriguing and intelligent collection. Cotman seizes the stories of tired tradition and galvanizes them, setting them to dance for us in wonderful, new interpretations."—Cat Rambo, author of The Surgeon's Tale
 
"Elwin Cotman is one of the most original new voices you will encounter—he is a synthesizer of the domestic and the fantastic, of soaring myth and the grittiest realities, of lewd dialect and high lyricism. His stories are profound engagements with suffering of every stripe—they will also make you hoot with laughter. I was amazed by the force of Mr. Cotman's pinwheeling imagination."—Karen Russell, author of Swamplandia! 
 
"With raw and sometimes shocking authenticity, Cotman turns the ordinary into the sublime. There is no pretension here, just a million-​​watt light shining into corners of the human condition that many people would prefer forgotten, with a large helping of fantastic creatures, classical myth, and modern mayhem."—Erzebet Yellowboy, Cabinet des Fees

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