As we wait for this reset, and some say yay and others say Nay... The future keeps demanding money. Meanwhile the work that I put thousands of hours into, over the past decades, still deserves to add a few shekels to my existence.
https://odysee.com/@TVKalmes:f/The-Alligator-Book-by-GK:5?r=5Ch6VSvhyWX9NFc2a4wePcXEqkPF1Jbm
Right? I did some great work and created something from nothing. However, I always knew my work needed an editor and marketer. Because if my royalty is $10 and I sell 500 books, then I have legitimately, honestly, earned $5000. This number looks really fantastic when one spends 29 days a month broke and worrying.
So I hired an editor and marketer that I cannot afford. Her cost is $1200 to edit my first 2 books.
I hired her on my budget of $50 per month. That's about 2 hours a month of her time. At this rate it will be 2 years before the books are ready to sell on Amazon.
I would rather not wait that long.
Yes I am about to ask for investors to raise the $1200.
This is me reading a chapter from the first drafts. I did the work. A true-- time consuming effort. Proof of concept. Done. But flawed. Second edition is a priority.
This is what I am asking, any size donation. In return I will put your name in the acknowledgements... You can choose what name. And a free copy, plus I can sign it if you like. Probably by Fall this can be done if I can pay her sooner than later.
I know some worry about their names getting out so you can snail mail a contribution or Venmo, Cash app or google pay.
I don't have paypal due to their weirdness about something they refuse to explain.
SNAIL
Gene Kalmes
289 East Huron Street, Berlin Wisconsin 54923
#1001
Cash App = @Shatteredelbow
Venmo = @shatteredelbow
Googlepay = TVKalmes@gmail.com
I hope this works. Thank you ahead of time.