{"id":4165,"date":"2014-01-30T21:15:27","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T21:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smallcraftadvisor.com\/our-blog\/?p=4165"},"modified":"2014-02-01T15:42:24","modified_gmt":"2014-02-01T15:42:24","slug":"tom-pamperins-new-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smallcraftadvisor.com\/our-blog\/?p=4165","title":{"rendered":"Tom Pamperin’s New Book"},"content":{"rendered":"

Received the following note from our friend and regular SCA contributor, Tom Pamperin. Please consider supporting his new book venture: <\/p>\n

“If you\u2019re getting this email it\u2019s because you might be interested in my new book, Jagular Goes Everywhere: (mis)Adventures in a $300 Sailboat. <\/p>\n

On Saturday, February 1st, I\u2019ll be opening a 40-day fundraising project on www.kickstarter.com<\/a> to pay for some of the costs to design and print the book. Basically, Kickstarter.com presents all kinds of projects\u2014books, games, cds, and lots more\u2014and allows their designers to ask for money to support them. It\u2019s an all-or-nothing deal; if you raise all of the money you ask for (or more), you use it to launch your project. If you raise only part of the money you ask for, you get nothing.<\/p>\n

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\nTo succeed, Kickstarter projects need to get lots of backers quickly. I want to have at least 200 by Monday, February 3rd.<\/p>\n

So on Saturday I\u2019ll be sending you a link to my Kickstarter page. When you get that link in your email, please do two things.<\/p>\n

1. Click on the link to check out my project and become a backer right away, even if it\u2019s just at the $1 level. If you need a rationalization for this shameless begging, how\u2019s this?<\/p>\n

Imagine you ran into me at a messabout, and I had capsized my boat and spilled all of my food and camping gear into the water (all too likely, I’m afraid). You\u2019d probably buy me lunch, right? Maybe only a half sandwich or a side of potato salad or something, but you wouldn\u2019t let me sit there with nothing, would you?<\/p>\n

So, if you like my writing, please consider chipping in $1. If you really like my Jagular stories, maybe the $5 level would be better. If you want a copy of the book when it\u2019s released in June, chip in $15\u2014that\u2019s the same price you\u2019d pay from Amazon, except shipping will be free and you\u2019ll get your book even sooner.<\/p>\n

Remember, it\u2019s not just the amount of money that matters, it\u2019s the number of backers I can get right away to make the project more visible. To get 200 backers by Monday morning, I\u2019ll need your help. Click on the link as soon as you get it and become a backer right away\u2014if you\u2019re like me, you might never do it at all if you don\u2019t do it right away. (And don\u2019t forget to check out the cool thank-you gifts you\u2019ll receive for backing my project at different levels.)<\/p>\n

2. Then, please share the Kickstarter link with Facebook, Twitter, family, friends, post it on blogs and websites, start random conversations about it with perfect strangers, whatever\u2014help spread the word, and ask people to consider backing my project. With your help, I can reach the backers I\u2019ll need. Without your help, I\u2019ll never do it.<\/p>\n

Many thanks! I really appreciate any help you can give me getting this Kickstarter project off to a good start. 200 backers by Monday morning is the first goal.<\/p>\n

Take care,<\/p>\n

Tom Pamperin<\/p>\n

Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin”<\/p>\n

Here’s the link to the active Kickstarter campaign: https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/634973373\/jagular-misadventures-in-a-300-sailboat?ref=live<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Received the following note from our friend and regular SCA contributor, Tom Pamperin. Please consider supporting his new book venture: “If you\u2019re getting this email it\u2019s because you might be interested in my new book, Jagular Goes Everywhere: (mis)Adventures in a $300 Sailboat. On Saturday, February 1st, I\u2019ll be opening a 40-day fundraising project on…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallcraftadvisor.com\/our-blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallcraftadvisor.com\/our-blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallcraftadvisor.com\/our-blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallcraftadvisor.com\/our-blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallcraftadvisor.com\/our-blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4165"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/smallcraftadvisor.com\/our-blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4183,"href":"https:\/\/smallcraftadvisor.com\/our-blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4165\/revisions\/4183"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallcraftadvisor.com\/our-blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallcraftadvisor.com\/our-blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallcraftadvisor.com\/our-blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallcraftadvisor.com\/our-blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}