It’s hard to overstate the importance of the BackerKit Printopia campaign for my 11th book and second satirical novel, Maniac Pixie Dream Girl. If the campaign is a success, it’ll go a long way toward finally extricating me from financial problems I long feared were impossible and intractable. Nearly thirty years into my career, I need a win for psychological and professional, as well as financial reasons.
We’ve gotten off to a strong start. The campaign has only been live for the past two days or so; we’ve already hit 100 backers. Triple digits, baby! Considering that my last campaign, for Five Nights at Freddy Got Fingered, just squeaked by its 10,000 goal with 183 backers, that’s quite good, but I’d love to steer folks toward the higher tiers because that’s where the moolah truly is.
(crazy kung-fu noises!)
To encourage folks to get in on the Maniac Pixie Dream Girl BackerKit Printopia campaign, I am including a secret extra bonus e-book for everyone who pre-orders a physical book or chooses another option in the fifty-dollar-and-over range. The campaign has a lot of tiers. Possibly too many, but I have a vivid imagination and want to give y’all as many different reasons and ways to give me money as humanly possible.
I trust that you all know what I mean.
The secret extra bonus e-book is entitled Nathan Rabin’s Bad Ideas Presents Questionable Exercises in Vulgar Completism. It’s a full-spirited defense of vulgar, lowbrow entertainment that collects the series that I’ve written about the Ernest P. Worrell films, all the Saturday Night Live movies, and the Police Academy, The Fast and the Furious, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween, Silent Night, Deadly Night, and Child’s Play franchises.
If we hit 10,000 dollars, I will watch and write about the Friday the 13th movies in their entirety. If we hit 12,000 dollars, I’ll cover all the Leprechaun movies.
Listen to this song! It will change your life! Not for the better, necessarily, but it is a bona fide life-changer!
Questionable Exercises in Vulgar Completism will be a PDF sent to backers a few months after the campaign ends, assuming it is successful (I am superstitious and deeply concerned about jinxing, as all 50-year-old veteran authors are). If we make the stretch goals, it will take a month or two longer, because I’ll have to watch all those movies and write them up. On a related note, I really want to watch all the Friday the 13th movies, as they are a strange blind spot in my horror film education.
So please consider becoming a backer! I just made a sweet-ass deal even better!
Incidentally, in the spirit of Donald Trump’s $5,000 bribe for voting Republican, I was going to give a crisp $ 500 bill to everyone who backs my book, but I crunched the numbers and couldn’t make it work. Sorry! But honestly, Nathan Rabin’s Bad Ideas Presents Questionable Exercises in Vulgar Completism is better than 500 bucks.
I was supposed to do a livestream today at 4 EST, but I am afraid I'll have to cancel because I can't figure out how to do a livestream on Twitch. I was hoping that it would be like Substack, where you just press a button, but it seems like there are 17 steps to doing it on BackerKit, and I couldn't t make it past the first one.
I apologize to the two or three people who were looking forward to it! I might try to do it via Substack, but man oh man, I am flummoxed when it comes to Twitch.
The campaign has been up for just over 24 hours, and we've already made nearly $3,000! At the very least, it would be swell to get past 3K. It would be splendid if we got to four thousand today or tomorrow, as that would be 50 percent of the goal on the very second day.
There are a lot of big-ticket items among the tiers. I encourage y'all to choose them so that I can make money and feel happy and successful. I'm not going to say that my self-esteem and self-image are inexorably tied to how this campaign does, but my self-esteem and self-image are inexorably tied to how well this campaign does
Anywho, here's a list of the movies I've written so far ranked according to quality.
Don't sleep on this awesome crowd-funding opportunity!
We're only two days away from launching the campaign, and boy, oh boy, am I nervous! You never know how these things will go and what the public will think until it's go time. I've done a bunch of these before, but it never gets easier and always requires a combination of hard work, experience, vision, and dumb luck.
So when the magic happens around noon on Thursday, please support this project any way you can. Pledge (obviously), but also share the word wherever you can! I REALLY need Thursday to be a VERY good day, and y'all are the key to opening strong.
I've done a fairly massive pre-launch campaign for this, which I haven't done for any of my other campaigns. I hope it pays off!
