Elliott Turner's Blog - Posts Tagged "logistics"
Your Kickstarter Dollars at Work: Editors
My Kickstarter drive beat its goal and, as promised, I'm happy to say we've tracked down two editors to help me polish my book.
The first, Charley Erwin, is a graduate from Texas A & M and actually was a "beta reader" for my first book, An Illustrated Guide to Soccer & Spanish. In exchange for eternal fame and an advanced copy, he screened the text and sent me valuable feedback on errors and awkward sentences. Based on this track record, I asked him to act as historical fact-checker for the forthcoming book. He has graciously accepted. He's also engaged - congrats Charley!
The second, Chris Mann, needs no introduction. He ran the wonderful Equaliser blog and did his senior thesis at university on a great topic: Barcelona & Real Madrid as political entities. He's agreed to edit "big picture" issues. I'm seriously stoked to bounce ideas off his big brain.
I'm honored to have both on board and, of course, be sure to blame all errors on them. If you need their emails, let me know. It is their fault. I repeat, all errors may be attributed to them. I'm just the author, after all.
The first, Charley Erwin, is a graduate from Texas A & M and actually was a "beta reader" for my first book, An Illustrated Guide to Soccer & Spanish. In exchange for eternal fame and an advanced copy, he screened the text and sent me valuable feedback on errors and awkward sentences. Based on this track record, I asked him to act as historical fact-checker for the forthcoming book. He has graciously accepted. He's also engaged - congrats Charley!
The second, Chris Mann, needs no introduction. He ran the wonderful Equaliser blog and did his senior thesis at university on a great topic: Barcelona & Real Madrid as political entities. He's agreed to edit "big picture" issues. I'm seriously stoked to bounce ideas off his big brain.
I'm honored to have both on board and, of course, be sure to blame all errors on them. If you need their emails, let me know. It is their fault. I repeat, all errors may be attributed to them. I'm just the author, after all.
Your Kickstarter Dollars at Work: Books
So, I've tracked down and bought quite a few soccer and history books with the Kickstarter funds. Here is a sample:
Inverting the Pyramid by Jonathan Wilson
The Ball is Round by David Goldblatt
Morbo by Phil Ball
Barca: A People's Passion by Jimmy Burns
La Roja by Jimmy Burns
Soccer Against the Enemy by Simon Kuper
Mardid-Barca: Historia de un Desamor by Julian Garcia Candau
50 Teams That Mattered by David Hartrick
The Battle for Spain; The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 by Anthony Beevor
Gracias, Vieja by Alfredo Di Stefano
The Splintering of Spain by Chris Ealham and Michael Richards
La República Española y la Guerra Civil by Gabriel Jackson
Todos los Jefes de la Casa Blanca by Juan Carlos Pasamontes.
The Franco Regime 1936-1975 by Stanley Payne.
Historia del F.C. Barcelona: El Barca, un club, una ciutat, un pais by Jaume Sobreques.
I already owned "White Storm" by Phil Ball. I'm definitely going to check out lots of other books, but I need cash to pay the editors, artist, conversion costs, copy right claims, and, of course, the super neat prints for several Kickstarter backers. Thus, to the library!
Inverting the Pyramid by Jonathan Wilson
The Ball is Round by David Goldblatt
Morbo by Phil Ball
Barca: A People's Passion by Jimmy Burns
La Roja by Jimmy Burns
Soccer Against the Enemy by Simon Kuper
Mardid-Barca: Historia de un Desamor by Julian Garcia Candau
50 Teams That Mattered by David Hartrick
The Battle for Spain; The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 by Anthony Beevor
Gracias, Vieja by Alfredo Di Stefano
The Splintering of Spain by Chris Ealham and Michael Richards
La República Española y la Guerra Civil by Gabriel Jackson
Todos los Jefes de la Casa Blanca by Juan Carlos Pasamontes.
The Franco Regime 1936-1975 by Stanley Payne.
Historia del F.C. Barcelona: El Barca, un club, una ciutat, un pais by Jaume Sobreques.
I already owned "White Storm" by Phil Ball. I'm definitely going to check out lots of other books, but I need cash to pay the editors, artist, conversion costs, copy right claims, and, of course, the super neat prints for several Kickstarter backers. Thus, to the library!
Your Kickstarter Dollars At Sloth: Procrastination
Everybody knows that to become a respected writer, you must develop neurotic obsessions that cause you to procrastinate and blow deadlines. My book is due out next April, so I gave myself a good chunk of time to research and write. Nevertheless, I still have found (and find) ways to read novels & short stories instead of working on the book.
Here are the creative works I've been reading in lieu of writing my own creative work:
Drown by Junot Diaz.
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen.
The Complete Short Stories of Flannery O'Connor.
Norwegian Wood by Huraki Murakami
Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz.
In addition to reading, I do promise that I've put your Kickstarter dollars to good use. For example, I've withdrawn all $1200 from an ATM in twenty dollar bills. Each night, I spend about 5 minutes forming stacks of $100 on my desk. Then, after making stacks of $100, I turn on a fan and blow around the bills. Then, I make stacks of $200. Then, I turn on a fan and blow around the bills. Then....
You get the picture. On occasion, my wife knocks at the door to the study and asks if there's a problem and why am I turning on and off the fan so much? To which I reply - "Just putting my backers' dollars to work and stack'in d'em billz."
But seriously, I've finished 8 chapters, have 2 left, and the artist Erik Ebeling has submitted some amazing sketches for the artwork. I'm starting to get excited and we're still 6 months away from sending out the backer rewards (and the book comes out in April for backers, in May for the rest of ye).
Here are the creative works I've been reading in lieu of writing my own creative work:
Drown by Junot Diaz.
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen.
The Complete Short Stories of Flannery O'Connor.
Norwegian Wood by Huraki Murakami
Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz.
In addition to reading, I do promise that I've put your Kickstarter dollars to good use. For example, I've withdrawn all $1200 from an ATM in twenty dollar bills. Each night, I spend about 5 minutes forming stacks of $100 on my desk. Then, after making stacks of $100, I turn on a fan and blow around the bills. Then, I make stacks of $200. Then, I turn on a fan and blow around the bills. Then....
You get the picture. On occasion, my wife knocks at the door to the study and asks if there's a problem and why am I turning on and off the fan so much? To which I reply - "Just putting my backers' dollars to work and stack'in d'em billz."
But seriously, I've finished 8 chapters, have 2 left, and the artist Erik Ebeling has submitted some amazing sketches for the artwork. I'm starting to get excited and we're still 6 months away from sending out the backer rewards (and the book comes out in April for backers, in May for the rest of ye).
