“A Feeling of Poetry” is a life long dream. A dream to become a publisher and share my poetry with the world. My project here on kick starter is to continue this with your support.
What is A Feeling of Poetry?
“A Feeling of Poetry” takes you across the western plains of simplicity in “A Plan, across a Distant Land.” And this book tries to explain, or you can travel through, “An Area of Distant Space,” being there in the sky, together you and I. The imagination is sparked with creativity for its excitement, its sadness, its anger, its wonder, its realness. This experience is not so much about the outward, but more about the inward expression of oneself or the feelings of things we encounter. Taking a concept from “stop and smell the roses,” have you ever stopped to think about these things and what they could mean? A Feeling of Poetry explores these emotions and asks the question, Will you, the reader, explore the actual feelings conveyed in this poetry?
It started in early 2000’s, with a school project, “African traditions”. It was that day when I realized how relaxing and fun it was to write poetry.
Why a Book?
Since that day, I have been doing poetry now with a collection of about 250 poems. A feeling of Poetry only explores 32 titles. Why a book? I felt that it was the best way to share my dream. I could do a blog? or twitter, but I feel a book is still the best way to share your work. I heard the saying that sometime sitting down with a good book helps you to relax; i believe in this concept.
Is the Book Already in Print?
I noticed a lot of publishing pages here on kickstarter are book projects. My book has been or will be published on 10/12/19 through the publishing company Author House. Being a new Author I didn’t realized how important it is to have a following number one, and also to have funds. I Jumped out their thinking it was going to be easy.
Now 5 months later I have 195 people on Facebook following and still need around 4000 dollars in marketing cost. My dream is to get my book in book stores and to share my project with the world.
Why Kickstarter if my project is already started?
Good Question. A friend came up to me and told me to try kickstarter or go fund me to help with the marketing cost of the book. I said really? I don’t think people would help me? He said sure they will. It was then that I told him that I don’t think Go fund me was appropriate because I felt, at least in my mind, that go Fund me was for emergencies. However, I did tell him that I would check out kickstarter. After learning and reading others projects on kickstarter I started setting up this page to gain support from you. I really do appreciate your support.
What are my Rewards and what will you money go towards?
By supporting me your funds will go to helping me to Market a feeling of poetry and getting it on bookstore shelves. Since it is a new book time is a factor, as book stores loose interest the older the book gets.
Rewards:
Please see the top right of this page to see contribution tiers and rewards. Rewards would consist of Signed and personalized Merch, books, magnets, notebooks and more. Please note signed items are directly from Author and hand written. These might be the only opportunity you have to get these items. Please pay attention because supplies run out. We are raising 4000 dollars 800 dollars according to kickstarter was added to cover fees associated by credit cards and kickstarter and sales tax.
Reach-out on the Social Media.
One of the Challenges i am currently faced with is getting the funding for this marketing project. If I don’t then books will not be placed in book stores. The book has already been published and I have the rewards already. But I want to make sure I get you all personal messages so they might take a while to ship. I hope to ship the rewards one the funding goal is completed. If no then I get no money and I can’t send out rewards. What that means is I need reach my marketing goal in order to ship out rewards. Otherwise all money is refunded.