Some terrifying news (new book)
I’m terrified.
As I write this my guts hurt and my fingers are shaking.
On May 31st I’m launching a Kickstarter campaign for my book, My Dog Shits Cash. It’s a bizarro comedy story about love and family and dogs and stuff. On the face of it, it’s a strange, surreal, and very silly book. However, buried beneath the jokes is a fictionalised story about me at one of the lowest points in my life.
A few years ago I nearly lost my partner.
A hide and seek game that got really out of hand?
Unfortunately not this time.
It was a terrifying month followed by the scariest night of my life. My partner became very ill and for a moment it seemed like I would lose her. A part of me wanted to reverse time, escape back to simpler times, the days from my youth when I could just roll around and do nothing with my pet dog.
In the book, the main character Nathan Alabaster faces a similarly grownup problem. Luckily, out of nowhere, his childhood dog turns up at his flat. She’s amazing. She shits cash, can speak to Nathan with her mind, and once taught the kid down the street how to speak Japanese. Also, she can catch!
I like to think of it as a Pixar movie but for adults, with the humour of naughties British TV comedies. If you like The Mighty Boosh, Adventure Time, Charlie Kaufman movies, or the work of Matt Berry, then I think you’ll love it.
Why Kickstarter, though?
This is the kind of book that doesn’t exactly tick the Amazon algorithms. Nor is it the kind of book that I think Penguin Random House are going to be sending to Richard & Judy for their book club.
It’s an odd book.
It will also be the first official BOD DOT PRESS book, my new boutique imprint for bizarro books.
In terms of rewards, I’m offering hardcover copies and audio adaptations, along with handfuls of books from my back catalogue, and on top of that, some personalised poems, if you’re into that kind of thing.
If you could do me a massive solid, and back my book, then I will love you forever. Not that I don’t already.
You would do a lot for my aching guts and shaking fingers by clicking this sentence and following the campaign.
Until next time,
Luke & family