Take ‘My Blood’, and If It Satisfies…

So you may know that I’m about half-way through a flailing crowd-funding campaign to raise seed money for my first fiction book. Here’s the campaign page But don’t go there. Go here instead. I started the campaign by offering a free, condensed preview of the book, My Blood. Read it. If you enjoy the 8,000-word teaser, and want to read the book, go to the campaign page and contribute. The more mullah I raise, the faster the book arrives.

If you don’t think much of the preview—or it’s just not your kind of story—contribute another way. Tell me what’s wrong or what you would rather read instead. I mean: that you would pay for.

Hey, Russell Holly, you’re God’s Gift to book crowd-funding—and that’s the sincerest praise. We got the same financial goals but you hit yours fast. Please slap me in the face. Okay, use a fist. Beat me with all that I should be doing right or am doing wrong. Your response will help anyone who reads this post and wants to raise digital greenbacks to write the novel Stephen King never would—and thank the gods he didn’t. Stinker. (Russell is most likely to respond here.)

As for the accompanying, promotional graphic, it’s my first attempt using Canva. Don’t think much of my graphic capabilities? Well, neither do I. Canva doesn’t support Internet Explorer, which purposely is the only browser installed on my Surface Pro 3. I got this “Microsoft All-In” thing going for the summer. That’s reason.

I’m reviewing the ASUS C300M and used Canva on the Chromebook. It’s a little cheat, but within the acceptable confines laid out when starting the All-In thing.

About the graphic: Years ago, I took the photo of people standing in line for an American Apparel sale. Today, I applied the blood effects using PicMonkey. Canva did the rest.

Funny thing, after downloading the graphic, Canva emailed praising me for producing my 10th design. Oh yeah? In what alternate universes are the other nine? Is that the service’s real trick? Create one and publish to 10 dimensions. Please, someone send me there too. Maybe in one of them, I was born Stephen King (Hey, we’re both from Maine) and published My Blood as my 100th book.