After some recent discussions, I felt the need to post this to the project page and send it as an update.
What this Book is NOT:
First, this is not a book meant to answer all the questions. This world the story takes place in is a complicated place where everything has changed owing to the cataclysmic event. As a result, everything you know about society, religion, politics, genders, gender roles, and much more has changed. Second, this book is not "women can’t go on without men." Having lived for 500 years without them, clearly they can. This book is an exploration of that idea: what would it be like if you take the most basic form of diversity and remove it? And then what might happen if you reintroduce it? How would society react? Third, this is not an anti-feminist diatribe. It is also not a Complementarian manifesto. The idea here is NOT to declare one gender is better than the other, or that they can only exist together if they exist in a specific mold. The idea behind it is to explore what would happen if such an event were to occur, not pass judgment on you or anyone else for how they view or believe on this subject. Finally, this book is not going to tell you what to believe or accept about it. This will have a lot of ambiguity in it ON PURPOSE. This is not to avoid conflict, but to avoid "leading the witness." The narrative is going to have a lot of opportunities to make small and big statements throughout. Places where we can hit you right in the face with something just because we want to. We won’t be doing that. The idea here is to create a setting where all of these preconceived notions we carry into our interactions with each other have all fundamentally been altered or vanished. We all are going to approach this story with differing world views and beliefs. That is fine. The goal of this story is to take you as you are and, on the other end, leave you where you choose to be after contemplating the ideas and possibilities herein.
I want to share a special moment!
As you can see in the screen shot of my project page, Blood Dawn now has 398 pre-orders.
Why am I sharing this and not the moment when I hit 400?
Because I’d like to ask 2 people to please pre-order a copy right now. It would mean so much to me -- in fact, it would make my weekend!
Here is a link to the project page where you can do that:
http://www.inkshares.com/projects/blood-dawn
Thank you to EVERYONE who has shown support and brought us this far. May it continue!
Okay. First thing this morning I told my wife, "Baby I’m so Quilltastic," and she said, "Shut up and bring me some coffee." So I’ve got that going for me. Which is nice.
I want to give a special shoutout to Brett Bynum who was the pre-order that put us over the top! Thanks Brett!
So we got to 250 pre-orders 24 hours ahead of schedule. Let me break down what that means you guys have been pre-ordering 1.16 books per hour since this campaign started. That’s pretty much amazing, and you all deserve something special. So let’s start by announcing that everyone who backed thus far at the "Buy This" level or higher is getting a limited edition future vintage International Transport shirt. Give me a few days to figure out the logistics of that. Going forward, anyone who backs at the "Feeling Spendy?" level will also get a shirt. So that means the shirts won’t be going out until after the campaign is over, and at that point I will get your info from you. Check out the previous update if you’re curious what the shirt looks like.
Also, as promised, tonight I will send out Chapters One, Two, and Three, which sounds like a lot but, they’re kind of a preamble, preface, chapter 1 - So shouldn’t be overwhelming. Also, I would encourage you to check out the new International Transport video on the book’s page, we’ve officially ruffled their feathers!
I’ve got lots of other exciting things coming up, but you caught me 24 hours ahead of schedule, and I didn’t want to miss the opportunity to thank you for making this possible.
Quill on, Wayne.
Quill on, Garth.
Okay.
