Thursday 28 March 2019

Reveries is coming OUT



The news --

Reveries will be released as an ebook (Kindle edition) this FRIDAY, 29 MARCH. Save the date. A paperback publication will follow in a month or two - it's a work in progress.


An especially brilliant thing --

5 artist friends of mine have produced 5 original artworks relating to the book. 1 is being used as the official book cover, for the ebook and print editions. The other 4 will exist as standalone artworks, and all of them are available through the Kickstarter reward system (more below).


Finnegan Travers is a freelance visual artist from Totnes, based in London, specialising in photography, video graphic design. His design will feature as the book's actual front cover. It is striking and minimal and unlike anything else I've seen. (Image above)


Tom Stockley is a lo-fi performer, writer, designer and organiser based in the South West of England. Founding member of We Are Uncollective and Langaland Festival.



Leah Kirby
 is a shadow puppeteer, visual and physical artist and educator living Totnes, UK. View her Instagram and Facebook to keep up to date with what she's up to! Her drawing is a blend of styles, reminds of Quentin Blake but is so much more, and captures the fairytale elements of the novel wonderfully.



Lucy Vyain is a French painter and illustrator currently living and working in Totnes, UK. She produces moving portraits and hauntingly surreal landscapes, including a series of stripped-back Senegalese portraits, which are what caught my eye originally. She also paints trees beautifully. View her portfolio here



Dawood Vilcassim is a Sri Lankan visual artist, living and studying in Galle. Despite being much younger than the other artists, he followed the brief with panache, and introduced elements I hadn't thought of myself. Visit his Instagram here.



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Finally, Laura Willerton is, among other things, a fabulous textile artist. She hand-embroiders every t-shirt with love and care, to order. These are available through the Kickstarter reward system.


Kickstarter

I have launched a Kickstarter crowdfund campaign in order to fund:
  • A print-run of the book here in Sri Lanka, so that it can be available in brick-and-mortar stores
  • A separate print-run in the UK so that I have advance copies to give to reviewers, books for shops and cafes that want to stock it, and copies for me to sell at, say, events or launches
  • An audiobook, for which I will pay voice actors

View the campaign HERE
and my website, for more information, HERE


Please show your support by pledging - any amount is a great help! Or, if you can't/don't want to, please pass it on to someone who might be interested and is able to help.


There are some brilliant rewards available to generous supporters, including hand-embroidered original-design t-shirts (by Laura Willerton, above), posters of the above artworks, and signed copies of the paperback when it comes out.



Thanks so much!

XO