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What is "The Gift-Knight's Quest"?
The Gift-Knight's Quest is an ambiguous-magic fantasy set on a large continent with a massive inland sea. This novel concerns the youngest descendants of two families which have traditionally been enemies: the Kenderleys, who now rule the world's largest empire, and the Wancyeks, who have been reduced to common status and have lived quietly in a chunk of their former empire for over a century.
How you can bring this to life
To launch this novel is to launch its series, not to mention my career as a novelist. The manuscripts for two sequels are already written, and I'm plotting three other books on a separate story arc in the same world.
I had a chat with an interested self-publishing company that can assist me in all aspects of launching this novel, beyond what my helpful crew of artists and friends are already doing. This company can:
- cover all basic production including layout, ISBN, bar code and QR code, typesetting and proof revisions
- print at least 100 copies in 6 x 9 perfect bound paperback (useful not only for all perks involving paperbacks, but also donating copies to select libraries in Toronto and Vaughan and copies for reviewers and bloggers to get this novel widely written about and known)
- conversion to ePub and Kindle formats and distribution worldwide
- wholesale and retail trade distribution and marketing in the USA, UK, Canada, and potentially worldwide
- ongoing help and advice for marketing and sales of both ebook and paperback versions
These are just the basic services provided, and the established minimum funding goal easily covers these costs, plus some of the costs of shipping physical perks to backers, and paying Kickstarter fees owed upon the successful funding of the campaign. All funds raised up to the minimum goal will enter a budget for creating and marketing "The Gift-Knight's Quest" on an ongoing basis. Any funds raised beyond the minimum can buy premium level service packages from the same company, improving the novel's availability worldwide. In the strange event that funding extends unimaginably far beyond the goal, and beyond the price of premium services I find to be beneficial to the novel's distribution, I can find an immediate use for any extra funds: they can make for added compensation to artists who generously contributed to this and to Danced To Life, should they accept; they can definitely go toward shipping costs that I otherwise expect to cover privately; they can always go toward the next book(s) in this series. See the very end of this write-up as well for one other thing.
What you can get in return for support
See the perks on the right-hand column of this page. Summary: ebook and paperback copies of the story that we will have brought to life, a postcard, an autographed print, tickets to a Toronto-area themed event, and my sincere thanks, in various combinations.
There are also character sketches and art, inspirations and rough draft portions excluded from the final version, and other excerpts which can be unlocked solely for project backers as we pass funding thresholds (every $500 - 500, 1000, 1500, for example). The sooner you back this project, the easier it is to automatically get more unlocked bonuses, for the simple reason that if you join before a threshold is passed then you have joined in time to receive that email and all emails after it. If you want earlier/missed unlocked items, you will have to contact me so that I can send them to you.
