Why is he offering a reward?

By admin on Aug 6, 2008 | In Announcements | Send feedback »

It's simple really; I want to get this book published, I want your help in doing it and I am willing to pay for that help.

The idea is pure: if you like this book and feel it should have a wider audience then you are empowered and encouraged to share it with others, preferably someone in publishing or motion pictures that could champion it and shepherd it to wider release. If you don't like the book and feel it has gone far enough, please send the book back or shelve it for the collector's item it will eventually become when you are proved wrong.

Why this unconventional route of giving away copies and offering a reward?
A. I can't pin it down exactly but some time in the past 5 years I have become disillusioned with the long popularized belief that the race goes to the swiftest, that cream rises to the surface and that the early bird gets the worm. In its stead, I have become enamored by those most American of virtues: advertising and blatant hucksterism. I have come to realize that the race goes to the favorite of the East German judge, cream isn't cream until it is marketed as such and the smart bird outsources his worm catching. In short friends and readers, this effort is about marketing: getting this commercially viable (and profitable) work in front of as many people as possible with the idea that it eventually get in front of the right agent, publisher or producer that will make you $10,000 and will start me on my literary career.

Thank you in advance for help and I hope you enjoy the book,
D. Eric Maikranz