Write the Next Chapter
If you're reading this, you already clicked something you didn't have to. Thank you.
The book is finished. It's been written. It's been edited. It's sitting on a desk, mostly complete, waiting for the part of the process that can't happen alone.
Here's the honest part. A book like Devil Trap Disco (supernatural noir set in 1977 Boston, written by an unknown first-timer, leaning into the weird instead of away from it) doesn't have an easy path to a printing press. The usual route is to let a publisher decide whether there's an audience for it. I'd rather find out for myself.
That's what this list is for.
When enough of the right readers have said yes, I want this, the crowdfunding campaign opens. The number of names on this list determines the size of the first printing, the production budget, and whether the book gets a proper release or a quiet one. It's not a marketing list. It's more like a census.
I'm not asking you to back anything yet. There isn't anything to back. I'm asking for your email so that when the time comes, I can tell you honestly that the campaign is open, and here's what you can do if you want to help it cross the line.
Between now and then, you'll hear from me about once or twice a month. New Ramblings. Additions to the Stereo 8. Scenes cut from the manuscript. Decisions being made in real time about cover, typography, printing. Occasionally, a chapter preview.
No spam. No manufactured urgency. No "last chance" emails. I'll treat your address the way I'd want mine treated, which is: barely.
The book is written. What it needs now is an audience. This list is where that audience begins, and you'd be one of the first names on it.
Let's write the next chapter together.