LADIES & GENTLEMEN, WE DID IT!
11 months ago
– Sun, Mar 03, 2024 at 03:23:27 PM
While the Morning Stars Sang Together is over 100% funded, as I type this. We actually just went over $7000!
Yes, this is crazy. And I could not be more grateful. Thank you to all of you who took time to read or share or post, and also give of your resources to this book and campaign. That makes me feel all the emotions. But oddly, we still have three days left....
So we are doing what the crowdfunding folks call a "stretch goal" for the remainder of the campaign. My goal now is simply to get more folks signed up to preorder the books...and also do something fun. So, I decided to get some printed bookmarks to go with the cover art. I usually make all the bookmarks with my typewriters, but we are gonna try something different.
Here's the artwork. So the stretch goal will be to hit 155 backers, and if we do that, I will give everyone over the second tier a printed bookmark in addition to your reward tier!
But wait, there's more! If you purchased one of the first two tiers, you can still win a fancy bookmark by joining in the "scavenger hunt" for the Title to the second volume of space poetry and stories I will be releasing next year sometime. Included in each book sold in this campaign, will be a playing card or library card or "token" with ONE word from the upcoming title on it. What you have to do is communicate with other backers, find all FIVE words, arrange them into the right sequence, gather pictures of each and DM me or send me an email. The clue for the Title are a couple obscure descriptions used by CS Lewis...and they may have something to do with SPACE.
So go ahead and share or get the word out and let's have fun with the rest of this!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jjbrinski/while-the-morning-stars-sang-together?ref=a8v5c4
JJ BRINSKI
WE HAVE 100 BACKERS!!!
11 months ago
– Fri, Mar 01, 2024 at 01:40:10 PM
HURRAY!
We just hit 100 backers strong and we have broke the $1000 to go mark! This is a good place to be and I am very excited. I can see the finish line; it's all downhill like Ents walking south.
For all you backers seeing this, remember that you can add a book, bookmarks, buttons, stickers, and art on if you want to give this just a little bump. You can do this by going into the campaign page and looking for "Add-Ons" and it's just that easy. I have also had folks who want to get another copy of the book and you can do that by kicking up to The Expander package.
We got OPTIONS! And thanks again to every, single one of you!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jjbrinski/while-the-morning-stars-sang-together?ref=a8v5c4
JJ
ONE WEEK TO GO!
11 months ago
– Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 07:26:43 AM
Hey Everybody!
We just hit the ONE WEEK TO GO mark and only need $1190, which seems like a drop in the bucket compared to the $6500 goal at the beginning.
With that in mind, I am including a shareable link AND the text to a poem from the book that you can send or post via email, social media, church groups, reading groups, libraries, etc. Feel free to also share any of my Reels, videos, or graphics (or just repost) from anything I've posted on Facebook or Instagram in the last month. I am the most active on those two outlets and Threads.
It is not lost on me the gravity of having right at 100 people get behind this project and this book, and I'm incredibly, immensely GREATFUL! Thank you to so many of you for already sharing, sending encouraging messages, and cheering this thing on. We have one week, and I intend to go out with a bang!
JJ BRINSKI
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jjbrinski/while-the-morning-stars-sang-together?ref=a8v5c4
THE DRAGON & HIS MOONS
Like Io and Europa,
stealing past the gas giant dragon
with gaping red eye,
swirling fury and cloud,
enfogging angry smoke
from colossal nostril.
A hardly-slumbering storm
of a world, swells like lungs.
So…slowly…they…creep,
sentry satellites, submissive.
Frightful witnesses in orbital slink.
Churning, you can see Jupiter
breathing to reach
and swallow these
sneaking moons
whole.
We Have Officially Reached Halfway Through the Campaign
12 months ago
– Wed, Feb 21, 2024 at 09:35:59 AM
Hello all!
Today marks 15 days in and 15 to go! So far, so good...and we are at 70% funded. I wanted to touch base with everyone to say thanks again for backing this great project and say that the manuscript is currently in the formatting stage and should be off to printing within two weeks! Is this real life?!?!
Also, I have had stickers arrive for the campaign like the JJ Cyborg/Mad Space Poet image you see above...and they look great! I'm starting to get real excited to get all these cool rewards sent out to y'all.
And one more thing: if you are reading this, would you consider posting the link to this Kickstarter campaign with your friends or on your social media channels? You can see fun graphics and posts you could share from my Facebook page "Joshua Michael Brindle" or my Instagram handle @jjbrinski specifically. I would love to get the word out to more people if you would be so inclined to help.
Here's a link to use!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jjbrinski/while-the-morning-stars-sang-together?ref=a8v5c4
Thank you!
JJ Brinski
We are a WEEK in!
12 months ago
– Tue, Feb 13, 2024 at 05:35:40 AM
Just wanted to check in with everyone. We are charging slowly through this "deadzone" period or lull that all my friends have warned and told me about. Everything slows down for a bit and some people forget about the campaign...and that's OK. Steady as she goes (she, being a strong, independent cyborg).
Anyway, I COULD use many more shares and canvasing out there...maybe in non-standard groups, book clubs, a message to a friend, church groups, poetry circles, bookstores...heck I can make a flyer for it to print up if you need! But you have full permission to pass this along to people who may be interested. And remember, this is more than "space poetry." This collection is science fiction, it's short stories, it's worshipful, psalmish at times, and has something for the general reader out there. It is also YA and pretty family friendly. I would say anyone over 10-12 is good to read or hear it's content.
Thanks again for you support everybody; it means the worlds to me!
JJ Brinski
