So many irons in the fire, so many things happening. Short stories coming out later this year, novels being written, screenplays in the works. The wheels are churnin’, the still is cookin’, the juices are flowin’. All that I’m learning how to play blues guitar, which has been a ton of fun.
On the fiction front, I need your help with something very important.
I have just launched a new Kickstarter to fund the publication of a new novel, The Hammer Falls.
The Hammer Falls is a dystopian science-fiction action extravaganza. Imagine Gladiator meets The Wrestler and Sin City with a cyberpunk twist.
In a world fallen into corporate oligarchy, pit fighters represent the “bread and circuses” doled out to the masses. It is a world of cyber-security, ubiquitous surveillance, and environmental degradation. Technology allows the pit fighters to regenerate horrific wounds, even death, and come back week after week for hordes of screaming fans.
Horace “The Hammer” Harkness is a pit fighter twenty years past his prime. After several years on the skids, he successfully stages a massive comeback bout, but to do so he has to borrow money from a ruthless Russian mob. When they threaten his would-be girlfriend Lilly if he doesn’t repay his debt, he kills the gangsters involved… only to discover that their leader was the mob boss’s son. Horace must go on the run to save himself, Lilly, and her children, from a relentless, ruthless foe. He falls in with traveling pit-fighter road show that includes a rainbow ninja girl and an ex-con cyberpath. With their help, he might just be able to turn the tables on a global mafia organization, or else he—and those he cares about—are doomed.
For as little as the price of a good cup of coffee, you can help bring this project to fruition. I’ve got some of the costs already covered, which is why the goal is so low. I’m running this campaign lean and mean, and hoping it blossoms into something awesome.
We always hope to catch lightning in a bottle, right? You can help do that.
Another way to think of a Kickstarter is that you’re buying the book in advance, especially if it’s something that’s right up your alley from an author you know, AND you’re helping bring it into the world. I’ve found there’s definite satisfaction in that. You helped make the project happen. If you’re a Kickstarter backer like I tend to be, you know what I’m talking about. If this is your first go-round, you’ll soon find out.
For less than the cost of a single dinner out, you can help bring a new book into the world, action-packed and wiggling, something that will far outlast that dinner or cup of coffee.
Please help by contributing to this project.
Thank you so much for your support. I appreciate it tremendously, and so will the people who don’t yet know they must read The Hammer Falls.