Author seeking funding assistance to publish

sample copy of the book from printer

I am looking for people interested in Pre-Sales of this book and or donations in order to raise the basic funds needed to get this project started.

With the new publishing services & professional editing etc. the bare minimum is $3,000

I believe in Capitalism, those who have it making it available to those who are need more to get their own dreams to become a reality.
Then once success has happened it allows the new successful people to turn around and pass along their capital to the next dreamers and assist them in funding and the opportunity to achieve their dreams.

I am not looking for a hand out, but a hand up. And willing to barter / trade what I am able to at this time.

The link has more about that:

Twin Lakes Book 1 PHG series

Author seeking help,

I am working to raise minimal funds to publish this book. The only thing standing in the way at this time is funds. It has taken a long time to get this far, and have been saving what few dollars per pay check along the way to help.
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Those who can donate $10.00 will get a free E-Book.
Those who can donate $25.00 will get a free Printed book sent to you.
Those who can donate $50.00 will have a signed copy of the printed book and e-book sent to you.

Those who donate $5.00 or more will have the option if you want to be placed on a thank you page in both versions of the book for making this 1st book of the Pure Heart Guide series possible to share with the world.

This is all I am able to do as far as thank you's in helping this process along as I am limited in resources. Contact me at: email hulsitalianplasters@hotmail.com and reference how you want to help or with questions and we can take it from there. Thanks.
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My career job of 21+yrs is as a Drywall Finisher. I have a wonderful wife and 5 children and our 1st grandson.

Through normal life's trials, 2 children surviving cancers, and other drama we finally are to this stage. (If I told you the last 24yrs experiences no one would believe it, I find many have such interesting lives.)

I prefer to do things on my own and being as self reliant as I can. But the publishing world is hard to break into. So after years of research I have chosen a self publisher who is successful with E-Books, Printed, and now offers print on demand. The asking goal is to cover those fee's and some advertising.

The book is what it is, I have the history and samples from it on Face Book, https://www.facebook.com/PureHeartGuide/info?tab=page_info   

This one is set up for this project and links to a website where the fuller story of this adventure is below.

Official Web "Pure Heart Guide" Book Series.

I have been told by the pre publishing readers its a good story, and unique.That was the goal.
There will be 5 books in the Pure Heart Guide series.
Book One "Twin Lakes" is done, cover art as well.
With these funds I will have some help adjusting some things with the covers and then publish it.

Here I will update the funds I have been able to personally earn towards my project with new updates on the needed help to move forward to publishing it.


About the book:

Pure Heart Guide is a book series that starts in the Beaver Utah area, a family goes on a reunion to remote twin lakes. The kids find a door & cave, several disappear a search begins and then strange and dangerous things take place leading the rescue party into mysterious underground places. Intrigue, betrayals, faith and how the family and friends deal with the trials before them, an old friend assists in the search as a guide for where they are going he has been before.
Choices must be made for good or bad and with each choice made the ripple effects will change how the world and humanity looks at themselves and others they did not know existed, until now.
This is an adventure filled with twists and turns, and faith, prayer, mystery, discovery. Epic fight between the 2 forces of eternity, Good vs. Evil, Light vs Darkness, who will win in the end and how will it effect your life?

Book update

Just an update:
I have been able to retrieve with help the info from the now dead laptop.
The updates for the editing of the book is finally done.
Will work on some updating and finalizing on the book cover.

Was planning on using some tax return for publishing, E Publishing at least. However due to bills, and lifes issues none of the return will be available for E publishing.

So will plan on saving 25 - 50 dollars per pay check until I can raise / save the funds to at least E publish the book.
Then as books sell, I will save enough to print some soft cover books, hope 150-250 in the 1st printing, which should keep the cost for retail under $19.00 per book for this 1st printing.
As things move on in the future I hope to be able to offer the print version closer to $15.00 per book or better just my goal for the consumer.


So this is what the new plan is as of now.

Just an update:

I have finished going through book 1 editing. Now I need to impute it into the computer and then have another sample book done. With some of the changes in the format the text and boarders on the page I have been able to decrease the book size from 520 pages to 358 pages, this should decrease the sales costs per book I hope to under 16.00 per book retail vs. 20.00+. E-publishing wont change I am thinking of 4.99 per copy there.

That is a great thing for me. The story is the same the learning process continues about layout and saving space on pages, interesting journey.

Problem is my laptop computer screen took a dump, have some folks looking to see why it wont work and why even hooking up an external monitor wont work. Thus the book is on this laptop, this happened before I could do a back up. So once we figure out the problem we shall remove all data from the old laptop to this computer and to my back up drive. Then continue the process.

I hope by Christmas to have a New sample book, with the updated changed items to preview.
If all goes well, and if we have a tax refund next spring then I can e-publish this first book, and eventually print publish as well by April at lest a few hundred copies.

That is the goal. Publishing on a -0- budget is always a challenge.
I still hope to find some sponsors for the book as that would allow for some larger publishing and adds but one can never tell the future.

So life continues, challenges of life also continue, but in the end this work will be completed.

How to Grass Roots fund this Dream Project? Idea's and seeking imput from you.

Pure Heart Guide Book series

28 mins · Edited ·

I have been thinking today, the basics, working on a final editing by myself of the book, working in the evenings and weekends as time permits, drywall has been very busy and time consuming long hours every day.
So Once I complete this last look over for obvious issues.
I will need to find a way to raise the 2k to have it edited by 'First Editing'
Then the next step will be about 1k to properly ebook publish bookbaby.com with a few dollars left over for radio ads about book one for 2 weeks.
Then 2k to print and mail the 1st 100 printed copies of this 1st issue. So to fully fund this initial part of the project.
I would require 5,000. minimum.
Once book is professionally edited that will allow me to approach professional Agents with the book series idea, and look for those who would like to approach their Big Publishing companies with the book. But I need a clean book for them to promote.
How to raise it? thinking have nothing of value that I could sell to raise it.
So may end up going door to door in the county asking for presales of the book, and sponsorships from business's, county tourism advertisements, or such old fashioned idea's to fund this seed becoming a youthful sprout in the world of literature.
If only pre sold books at $50 each, would need to sign them, and offer incentives for paying so much for this 1st edition, like having a list of names at the back of the book for those who sponsored the project, allowing it to come to life.
Selling ad spaces 1 per chapter, 30 spaces available to local, non local business that would sponsor it. Life time permanent ads, both in the physical print book as well as the ebook versions.
So what do you people out there think on this idea for funding the project?
If I could sell ads for 200. each then I could presell the books for $23.99 each. and that would cover the costs as well or a mixture of presold books and ads.
At my income level it would take 2-3 years to attempt to save that amount of income. And only if life's challenges did not occur (as they always do) and it would be spent on fixing a vehicle or medical issues or ?
So need to find help on this part of the project.

All You Can Read - Is the future of Book reading / buying to be like Netfix and movies?

Found this on an Authors site, Great question for the worlds readers.

Would you use a business for reading books that was set up like Netflix is for movies?

A monthly fee to read all the books you desire?

Read this professional look at this idea, would you the customer benifit? yes.

But would the Author or Publisher system benifit or end up producing for virtually no incomes for the years it takes and efforts of many to produce a great book?

Read it, and comment what you think, feel about this possible future for book readers.







Association of Authors' Representatives, Inc. - All You Can Read

All You Can Read

25 Mar 2014 10:01 AM | Brian DeFiore (Administrator)

There has been an awful lot of talk recently (and several million dollars invested, I imagine) concerning a subscription business model for publishing. The intent is for someone to create "the Netflix of books," (I'll call it NFFB) which several different start-ups are claiming title to.

The question for us as agents, of course, like in everything we do: Is such a thing good for our clients, the authors?

I frankly don't see how it can be.

I think it's pretty obvious: Let's say a consumer can buy access to all the books they can read in the course of a month for, say, $10. That's the price point that seems to be the 'sweet spot' at the moment. No one is charging more than that for a subscription service, and it's hard to imagine in fact that the price won't drop as competition mounts, as it has done at Netflix and virtually every other digital subscription business.

The same $10 can buy you one e-book. Or fewer than one trade paperback. Or less than half a hardcover.

I have heard (but have not yet seen on royalty statements) that publishers who are participating in these programs are being paid for each loan (and are they technically loans or purchases?) as if it had been an e-book purchase, and that they are in turn paying authors the full digital royalty that would be due if the subscription copy had actually been bought at retail. If that's true, in the short term, no terrible damage has been done to our clients. In fact, it might well be a plus. More consumers being drawn into the book marketplace thanks to the lower pricing model. And the publisher and the author get paid as if the book had been bought at full e-book price. Enticing...

But how can anyone believe that this model is sustainable for the long term? If a customer reads more than one book a month (or maybe two if the books are low priced), the subscription service loses money. And if that customer is not going to read more than one book a month-- then why join NFFB? There's only one way this works: the 'gym membership' phenomenon: the majority of people who sign up and pay their dues don't use the service much (in this case, an average of less than one book a month) and their negative usage is more than the positive usage by the power readers. If so, the service makes money in the aggregate.

So it seems to me that, sure-- maybe NFFB will bring in some new customers who think that they SHOULD be reading and would like to read more. They pay their $10 a month and buy three books a year. On those customers, the service has made money and if they can sucker in enough of those people their model has worked. The customer has gotten $30 worth of books for $120. But at some point the consumers drop out when they realize how little they are getting. Maybe it takes a year, maybe two, but if they are spending for a service that they don't use enough, at some point they will wise up. In the gym membership business the consumer base, seemingly, never ends: not only does virtually EVERYBODY want to get fit each January... the same people often re-sign year after year, or every other year, hoping that this will be the year they stick with it.

But is the same thing true of readers? This is what really scares me about this model. I've been in the business quite a long time, as have most of you in the AAR. And I think it's profoundly naive to believe that the market of readers in this country is endless. The reading of book-length material has always been one that has a relatively small and intensely devoted customer base, and in particular when compared to the true mass market media businesses: movies, television, music. We all know this: we are THRILLED when a book sells a hundred thousand copies. In those other businesses, executives would lose their heads for sales at that level. Books are simply not a true 'mass' business.

This industry has always been sustained by the relatively small percentage of people who read new books, bolstered by the occasional phenomenon that brings in people who don't normally read books (50 Shades, Harry Potter, Hunger Games etc.) and the deep backlist full of the gems that live forever. It seems to me that this model gives the limited number of customers who buy A LOT of books the ability to do so at a staggeringly reduced cost. Good for them, sure... and for as long as the business model stays the way it's structured now, I guess it could be good for authors and publishers. But how can we trust that the model will stay the way it is now? What happens when a huge percentage of power readers switch over to NFFB and read two, three or five books a month the way that they do now? Those additional sales come out of the retail marketplace, and eat into the profit margin of NFFB. So again, in order to believe this is sustainable you have to believe that either 1) NFFB will continue to grow its customer base indefinitely, making up for the losses on power readers with more and more January gym rats; or, if that's unsustainable 2) they will stop paying publishers full price and then, therefore, publishers will pay authors a lower royalty per read. At that point, either the publishers agree to a new, lower fee structure, or NFFB closes its doors and all their customers are left hanging and angry-- likely to blame publishers and authors for being greedy, which seems to be the default marketplace mood at the moment.

Or I guess there is a third possibility. One of these services gets enough of a market share that Wall Street (or a company with Wall Street money) keeps it operating without it needing to earn a profit. We know how well THAT has served the competitive market for books.

And yes, I know-- NFFB would be good for consumers. And what's good for consumers is always good for business. Isn't that what everyone in the know says? Particularly Wall Street?

Well, I don't buy it. A $99 round-trip ticket New York-Rome would sure be good for consumers. As would a $15 main course at The Four Seasons and a $45 pair of Manolo Blahnik's. But those things aren't happening.

Why? For the same reason $.99 e-book titles are selling fewer copies than THE GOLDFINCH or INSURGENT or THE FAULT IN OUR STARS or SYCAMORE ROW at seven, eight, nine, ten times the price. Because quality books are worth paying for. Consumers care more about the time it's going to take to read a book than about the price they have to pay for it. They want quality, they want sure things, they want an experience that is going to be a fulfilling one. They want to spend their precious time reading the books that they want to read-- for whatever reason. And they are willing to spend more for them.

And also because good things cost more to produce. Yes, we all know that a digital copy costs virtually nothing. But I'm not going to rehash the argument about all the effort and expense it took to get a book to the point that it is ready to be downloaded and/or bought in a retail store. Right now I'll only mention one: the year or two or ten that it took a single creative individual to write it. That author put a huge investment into their own work. Risking their ability to profit from that work on an unsustainable business model seems reckless to me.

We need to protect our client's ability to earn a living from the work that they do, and I don't see how this NFFB model is going to help. In the best of worlds, this model means that most of the income will be coming in great part from people who are NOT reading the books but paying for a service they're not using. Or by investors betting on the misguided belief that the market of readers is endless if only prices were lower. I would love to believe the selling point: that authors' incomes will be bolstered by the massive numbers of new readers enticed into the marketplace by these services. But until there's some evidence, I think the risk is higher than the possible reward. We have had enough trouble keeping the market strong with the downward pressure on prices from e-books and mass retailers. Do we need to throw this dangerous model into the mix?









 

"A Letter Found"

A Letter Found

 

 “It’s dated June 12 of 1916 so this is old. ‘To whoever is most unfortunate to find this letter and this place, I would suggest you leave as fast as you can and get off this evil mountain and never, never come back it is cursed.”

“Great a cursed cave now, sounds weird sis” Levi said.

“Just hold on and let me read this ok, it’s kind of interesting don’t you think a mystery maybe.”

“I am Frederick the son of Norman Adare the miner who lived here but has now long since vanished and we have not been able to locate him. My older brother Alex has gone for help but he has been gone quite a long time and I fear he may not have made it to Beaver for help. This is a cursed place for bad things have happened to anyone who has been foolish enough to stay here too long.

The Ute speak of a great evil in these mountains and that they should be avoided, they warned us not to mine, hunt or travel here that the evil spirits of the underworld roam these lands and will take anyone who is foolish to travel here down into their spirit realms and are never heard from or seen again.  We did not believe in their hog wash stories about spirits, ghosts or their demons and the like for they are just uneducated Indians after all full of dumb myths.  That is what we thought at first but now I am not so sure. Dad is gone and I have abandoned working the mine and barricaded myself here in this cave for safety. Strange things have come in the night; they are quiet and have carried off the mules and supplies now I remain alone. I am running out of provisions and do not know how much longer I can stay, I do know that whatever creature or demons are outside the door I can hear it scrapping and clawing at the door and pushing on it during the night trying to open it to get to me.  They leave a three toed large print, larger than that of a grizzly bear and I do not know what it could be. I do know this I seem to be a prisoner now and if I  venture out by day I am not able to get very far for the demons seem to come in the dusk and I must flee back to this cave for safety, I do not think I can travel to Beaver to escape,  as in the open at night they would catch me it’s over a day’s hike back to Beaver so for now it’s safer in the cave I hope Alex will come back soon with help I think it’s the only way I will survive.   Alex if you read this I am leaving the extra gun in case you need it.  And if you do not find me then I have either made my escape and will find you in Beaver or the demons have taken me. You are warned! Leave and never return there is some strange evil here a dark magic. I hear something,

Alex there is a strange humming sound behind the back wall its glowing white hot like when the black smith melts iron, I cannot leave I am trapped for the demons are back at the door again, know this, not sure how much time I have so I must end this letter, tell the family I love them. I must go; I hear them, the demons they are coming..."

Kickstarter.com project = Dud... 29 hrs left = failed it would seem. So Next!

Kickstarter.com project = Dud... failed it would seem with less than 29 hrs left. So Next!

It would seem from this experiance that you need to Hire the pro crowd funding agencies and pay them to make crowd funding work.

Since I had/have -0- income to hire such companies this has not been successful despite all the things I did on my own.

So Next! Maybe next year I can save up a few thousand dollars to promote another crowd funder (tax return) , maybe try pubslush.com designed more for publishing.
 
Mean time will hope to sell a 1014 Hesston hydroswing swather 1979 for I hope 1800.00 , if I can I will epublish the book before Christmas on my own through Bookbaby.com they have been really helpful and have earned it. As well as a book print of 100 copies when I can find that funding, most likely the tax return, so by next April I should have at least the 1st 100 printed copies available.

thanks to the few who showed interest.

NEXT! We never Give up..