Last week I launched a new Kickstarter campaign to fund Clockwork Phoenix 5, which I hope will be the next installment in our critically-acclaimed, award-nominated flagship anthology series.
 
With the costs of shipping and printing having risen, and the professional standard payment for fiction also having risen, my funding goal for this new book is pretty epic, $11,000. But we’re six days in and more than 1/5 of the way to the goal, so we’re off to a promising start!
 
Here’s my pitch:
 

 
My thanks to Jeremy Holmes for helping me make that video. I promised him a copy of the book — hopefully I can keep that promise.
 
This campaign has been in the works for months; I haven’t made a secret of it. I hope folks can forgive the social media barrage that I now need to generate to properly promote this project. But man, I sure to want to get this project secured so I can put together a book worthy of Paula Arwen Owen’s amazing cover.
 
So as of this writing we have 24 days to go and we’re 23% of the way to our goal. I have stretch goals I’m hoping to deploy but first we gotta get past the long haul to fully funded — and by the way, as soon as we reach that goal, I will open the book to submissions, even if the campaign still has time left.
 
I hope you’ll check out the cool rewards we have to offer; there’s a lot, and I’m going to be adding even more as we proceed.
 
I’m also going to be holding giveaways as we go along to add additional grease to the machine. You gotta be a backer to be entered. These are what I’ve got planned so far:
 

• At $3,000, I’ll give away a trade paperback ARC of C.S.E. Cooney’s debut collection of fantasy novellas, Bone Swans.
• At $4,000, I’ll give away a signed 11″ x 17″ inch giclee print of Paula Arwen Owen‘s cover art.
• At $5,500 (halfway there!): The special 10th anniversary issue of the print version of our journal Mythic Delirium featured Neil Gaiman’s poem “Conjunctions.” As soon as we hit the halfway mark, I’ll hold a giveaway for the one copy signed by Gaiman himself.

And that won’t be all. Stay tuned!
 
In the meantime, I hope you’ll check out our Kickstarter page and consider pledging. And I also hope you’ll spread the word, as we need all the help we can get, heh.
 
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