So, I have hit 20,000 words as of today :) Kendra has said she will help me with the artwork. At 50,000 words I am going to start a fundraiser on kickstarter.com for it.
Here is the rundown of the costs I'm looking at.
540 for a banner ad on the top of the page of in5d.com, a website Kendra pointed me to. It fits my demographic, so that's not a bad idea. I'm also going to do some CPC (Cost per Click) ads on FB for 3 months. They give you a "daily limit" and a price per click, you get to choose both. I am thinking 10 cents per click, with 10 dollars a day- that's 100 clicks a day.
10 dollars a day times, say, 45 days is 450$. I am also going to self publish 50 actual books. 40 people who donate more than 100$ will get one.
A website for myself as an author will cost 10$. Some costs will go to Kendra for doing art for me and helping with my website.
Anything left over will get funneled into marketing or books.
Here's a rough idea of how the funding will go:
1+ dollars- you get a copy of the ebook.
10+ dollars- you get a mention in the ebook and an ebook
25+ dollars- mention in the ebook, a shout out in my blog, and an ebook
50+- character cameo- your character is seated on a bench or something, and gets a conversation.
100+ gets you a physical book
200+ gets you a physically signed book
300+ maybe custom designed artwork by Kendra
500+ full blown character in my next book
800+ gets you a character in TWO books, a crossover maybe (depending on the stories)
1500+ gets me coming to meet you(in the US) and a photo, meet up, thank you, and if I get famous you have my number :P Hahaha. But seriously, a photo, maybe eat at a restaurant together, and you can come to some awesome event when I'm famous :)
Anything above 250 gets a personal email thank you from me, not copy pasted.
Anything over 500 gets a permanent thank you on my website(in a page dedicated to thanks to people who deserve it)
Again, Corporate Wars is a book set in the future(about 150+ years out) where Corporations own people. In the City the three Corporations are at war with one another, and use people as pawns. If you owe money, they can send you to the Farm for at least a decade. But a Resistance is rising...
^_^ Hey, nothing happens unless you try.
Showing posts with label corporations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label corporations. Show all posts
Saturday, May 19, 2012
Saturday, May 5, 2012
Corporate Wars
We are living in a Corporate World. Whether you want to admit it or not. Think about your day. When you buy stuff you like, you buy it based on the brand more often than not, right? I admit it, I do it as well. The entire system is designed to keep things in check.
Say you make minimum wage. You make enough to barely scrape by- IF you have a roommate. Your money goes back into the corporation that pays you so little so you can have the food you need to survive. You pay your rent with a good portion of it, and whatever you spend your money on will end up in Corporate hands. A necessary evil? Eh, maybe.
Now, what really bugs me, personally, is that people have this strong feeling of hopelessness, of being enslaved by the corporations, of being trapped, stuck, having no way out, having no real power. And it's true- in a minor sort of way. As an individual you have a small amount of control over your own life. You choose whether or not you think that working that job is worth the hassle and stress. Factors that go into this are your own psychological profile, how much money you make, where you live, how much the job woud bug you, how much you can ignore, etc.
It bugs me that Corporations are all about sucking up money like an obese vampire constantly hungering for more blood. Is it necessary? I think not. I mean, just how much of that extra profit do the rest of us never see? Now, don't get me wrong. I understand the entire "They worked for it, they earned it, let them have their money."
But when you have such an obscene amount of money, and you aren't giving more back than you have to, and you're just hoarding it... How much can you REALLY spend in one lifetime? Look around you. Our economy is swirling in the toilet. Yeah, there's kids starving in africa. There's also kids starving here. In a world where we worship money and name brands so intensely, there will always be more people on the street who "Couldn't cut it", or so we are told.
Mainstream Media, or MSM, sells us everything from cars to beverages to patterns of thought We are a consumerist society heavily focused on making money, and those of us who live the day to day ife are obsessed with getting more than we have. We're never satisfied, because there's always something else we need just one step away. Just out of reach is that latest dream, that one thing that would make it all okay.. And when we think we get it, we get more responsibilities, and it backs out of reach again with that killer smile.
MSM is owned by commercials and advertisements. Who pays for those? Huh. How peculiar! Corporations. The "News" we see is biased depending on what they think their viewers want to hear, and what their advertisers want to sell. We're sold mentalities, like "pick yourself up by your bootstraps" and "Work hard, keep the same job, and you will be rewarded!"
Except that that isn't true, now, is it? But we buy it hook, line and sinker. We want to hope, because the alternative seems too depressing to comprehend.
I am writing a book set in the future, in a world where this all gets out of hand, unbelievably so. It will be coming out in June or July, and will address the complex reasons, reactions, and effects of this. It addresses the vast difference between the rich and the poor, and the attitudes of each. I am selling it in the Nook and Kindle stores (yes, I appreciate the irony of that.)
Say you make minimum wage. You make enough to barely scrape by- IF you have a roommate. Your money goes back into the corporation that pays you so little so you can have the food you need to survive. You pay your rent with a good portion of it, and whatever you spend your money on will end up in Corporate hands. A necessary evil? Eh, maybe.
Now, what really bugs me, personally, is that people have this strong feeling of hopelessness, of being enslaved by the corporations, of being trapped, stuck, having no way out, having no real power. And it's true- in a minor sort of way. As an individual you have a small amount of control over your own life. You choose whether or not you think that working that job is worth the hassle and stress. Factors that go into this are your own psychological profile, how much money you make, where you live, how much the job woud bug you, how much you can ignore, etc.
It bugs me that Corporations are all about sucking up money like an obese vampire constantly hungering for more blood. Is it necessary? I think not. I mean, just how much of that extra profit do the rest of us never see? Now, don't get me wrong. I understand the entire "They worked for it, they earned it, let them have their money."
But when you have such an obscene amount of money, and you aren't giving more back than you have to, and you're just hoarding it... How much can you REALLY spend in one lifetime? Look around you. Our economy is swirling in the toilet. Yeah, there's kids starving in africa. There's also kids starving here. In a world where we worship money and name brands so intensely, there will always be more people on the street who "Couldn't cut it", or so we are told.
Mainstream Media, or MSM, sells us everything from cars to beverages to patterns of thought We are a consumerist society heavily focused on making money, and those of us who live the day to day ife are obsessed with getting more than we have. We're never satisfied, because there's always something else we need just one step away. Just out of reach is that latest dream, that one thing that would make it all okay.. And when we think we get it, we get more responsibilities, and it backs out of reach again with that killer smile.
MSM is owned by commercials and advertisements. Who pays for those? Huh. How peculiar! Corporations. The "News" we see is biased depending on what they think their viewers want to hear, and what their advertisers want to sell. We're sold mentalities, like "pick yourself up by your bootstraps" and "Work hard, keep the same job, and you will be rewarded!"
Except that that isn't true, now, is it? But we buy it hook, line and sinker. We want to hope, because the alternative seems too depressing to comprehend.
I am writing a book set in the future, in a world where this all gets out of hand, unbelievably so. It will be coming out in June or July, and will address the complex reasons, reactions, and effects of this. It addresses the vast difference between the rich and the poor, and the attitudes of each. I am selling it in the Nook and Kindle stores (yes, I appreciate the irony of that.)
Thursday, July 28, 2011
It's true, but it's not okay.
This is one of those things that just really, really sets me off. Our entire society is so cutthroat, that it doesn't care about the lowest on the financial totem pole. "They brought it upon themselves". "They're too lazy". "They're screwing the system". No, that's not true.. Not really. Getting screwed by the system and by other people is what got them to that point. Can someone please tell me why it is, that we just sit back and watch the massive corporations who are leeching off our life get away with crazy shit? I mean... Okay.
For example.. Did you know it costs about .0052 cents for the concentrate to make a glass of soda? At McDonalds, it's what, at least a dollar for one. Major profit margin there. I get the point of it, it helps the places pay for electricity etc, but still.. I mean, how much does it really cost to MAKE this shit we have to buy? (Not soda, you don't HAVE to buy soda).
It's totally okay for corporations to be utterly cutthroat and not give a shit about their own employees. Oh, minimum wage went up? Okay, cut hours, try to get rid of some people making more so we can pay them less. And we don't fight this. The government doesn't care. Why? Why is it okay that minimum wage, if you're living alone, doesn't cover rent and food? At most places in most cities, you have to make at least twice or 3x the rent.
Minimum wage doesn't garauntee that for people who work at McDonalds or any job like that where the hours are flexible. Why do we just sit idly by and just.. let it happen???
When they moved all the jobs overseas because of minimum wage going up, I really think they should have had some sort of "punishment tax" because of it. We lost a LOT of jobs that way. And what really pisses me off is, the American people don't seem to care enough to do anything about it. Is it because they don't know how, or where to start? Or do they feel like it's useless to bother??
Why does it seem like so few people care about this? About things like this? Yeah, it happens. Minimum wage goes up, so they lose a little bit of profit. It's not like they can't afford it. Ugh. It really, utterly sickens me.
For example.. Did you know it costs about .0052 cents for the concentrate to make a glass of soda? At McDonalds, it's what, at least a dollar for one. Major profit margin there. I get the point of it, it helps the places pay for electricity etc, but still.. I mean, how much does it really cost to MAKE this shit we have to buy? (Not soda, you don't HAVE to buy soda).
It's totally okay for corporations to be utterly cutthroat and not give a shit about their own employees. Oh, minimum wage went up? Okay, cut hours, try to get rid of some people making more so we can pay them less. And we don't fight this. The government doesn't care. Why? Why is it okay that minimum wage, if you're living alone, doesn't cover rent and food? At most places in most cities, you have to make at least twice or 3x the rent.
Minimum wage doesn't garauntee that for people who work at McDonalds or any job like that where the hours are flexible. Why do we just sit idly by and just.. let it happen???
When they moved all the jobs overseas because of minimum wage going up, I really think they should have had some sort of "punishment tax" because of it. We lost a LOT of jobs that way. And what really pisses me off is, the American people don't seem to care enough to do anything about it. Is it because they don't know how, or where to start? Or do they feel like it's useless to bother??
Why does it seem like so few people care about this? About things like this? Yeah, it happens. Minimum wage goes up, so they lose a little bit of profit. It's not like they can't afford it. Ugh. It really, utterly sickens me.
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