Help us Kickstart The Object: Book One!

Good morning everyone!

I am sharing a unique opportunity with you all today.

As you know, in the next couple of weeks, November 2nd to be exact, I will be sharing my interview of Winston Chad Emerson, author of The Object:Book One, with you all. Now that I have read everything he has offered to the public to read, ( The Drought, A Circle in the Woods, and The Object web series ) I can tell you that I am a HUGE fan and I am excited to be a part of the launching of his latest book.

Winston, with musician Matt Stillwell, ( who composes the musical score for The Object web series ) and illustrator, artist Justin Comley, are smack in the middle of a promotion campaign for The Object: Book One, and they could use our help. They have started a Kickstarter campaign to help with the cost of a very important book tour for their upcoming release of The Object: Book One.

They have a very modest goal of $1000, which will provide them with the capital needed up front for publishing costs, travel expenses, food, gas, and placing a bulk order (150 copies) of the paperback version of The Object: Book One, of which some will be sent out to reward recipients. The rest will be sold, sent to reviewers, and used for promotional giveaways. After all, book tours do not work if you have no book to sell to your readers, right?

The team has been hard at work for 6 months preparing, planning, and promoting this project, and now it is time for all that hard work to pay off. The book release is set for November 1st, with the book tour shortly thereafter.

You can be a part of this awesome project, and in return for your donation, there are some pretty awesome rewards! Check this out:

#1. For a pledge of just $3, you will get a digital copy of The Object: Book One in any ereader format, or a PDF copy if you do not have an ereader. (You can use this option to pre-order your digital copy of the book!)

#2. For a pledge of $15 you get a paperback copy of The Object: Book One. ( You can use this option to pre-order the paperback version of the book! )

#3. For a pledge of $35 you get a signed paperback copy of The Object: Book One and A Circle in the Woods!

#4. For a pledge of $100 you get the signed books above and two surprise books written by friends of The Object!

#5. For a pledge of $250, you get reward #3, plus FIVE surprise books written by friends of The Object, your name in the Acknowledgements of The Object: Book Two, as well as a signed and framed limited edition print of any of the illustrations from The Object: Book One! ( Which, by the way, are awesome and evocative! )

#6. For a pledge of $500, you get reward #5, plus you will be written into The Object: Book Two for at least one episode! (How freaking awesome is THAT? )

#7. For a pledge of $1000, you get reward #6, plus a permanent spot on The Object Website to showcase or promote anything of your choosing ( as long as it is appropriate for a PG-13 audience ) AND you/your business/band/etc. will be incorporated in an awesome and favorable way in The Object: Book Two!!

How awesome it would be to be written into Winston's next book? I think that is so cool!!

I have spoken with Winston many times, and he is a really great guy, who, along with his team, have really thrown every last bit of themselves into this endeavor. You could be a part of literary history by going HERE and reading about the project, check out the official details and if you can, donate for the chance to help a great team of people see their dream come into fruition, and getting something awesome in return!

You can also stay updated with the Facebook Book Release and Giveaway event!

So there you have it! Be sure to go check out the Kickstarter campaign and share this post with your friends so they can have a chance to get in on this awesome opportunity!

Idle Worship

No, it is not a religious post, sorry. It is about this game I play on Facebook, and totally love.

Yes, I know, there are Facebook haters out there. " Time waster, OMG they have horrible privacy policies, my husband/wife cheat on me with Facebook, they run their servers off of newborn baby souls...etc."

Whatever. I don't really care. I am a blogger, my life is not private, and anything I post on Facebook I would tell you or show you to your face, I am not in the closet about my bisexuality, the fact that I am considered a Pagan, or anything else, even while living in a heavily Christian community. I do not hide from my bat shit crazy family, or any of that crap. This is me. I curse, I am not politically correct, and I am blunt. What you see is what you get. So Facebook is fine with me.

*Ahem*  ANYWAY.

There is this game on there called Idle Worship, and I love it. It is one of the few games on FB that I do not have to invite 4856769 friends to play, or send me shit, or click on anything to help me out. If I had ZERO FB friends I could still fully play the game all by myself. In fact, it is the only game I even play on FB anymore.

The point of the game is basically you are god, and you create Mudlings, which are your followers, and you run their little lives for them. You do not have to plant a single damn thing, or cook anything, or raise animals. You do have to build stuff, like huts and defense and money making stuff, but those are cool and worth it. This is a game where giving someone a case of the crabs is a good thing, and being peed on in a double rainbow by a dog crossed with a seal is most assuredly a bad thing. You can bless or curse them, with cool and often hilarious powers. You can build altars and worship others, which gives them ( or you, if someone builds YOU an altar ) energy. ( They do not even have to be on your friends list, they have things called regions, and you can fully interact with them without ever having to send a friend request. ) You can put Prophets ( good guys who are mutually beneficial to both you and whomever's island you put them on ) and Converts ( Technically bad guys who are only good for you, it is a bad thing for whomever's island you have them on ) on other people's islands. You can be good, or evil, or neutral. You can zap someone with lightning to curse them, or place a nice fluffy bunny on the island to make everyone feel all warm and fuzzy. You can erect a massive idol on your island, and have some of your followers worship it to give you energy to carry out your tasks. You can create sea monsters and obliterate someone's island. You can sacrifice a Mudling to the volcano, or toss them into the sea as an offering. You can even make baby Mudlings.

It is a really fun and addictive game, and I play on both of my accounts. The only bad thing I have to say about the game is that after your initial starting out bank roll is gone, it does take some effort to keep money coming in to be able to buy the stuff you need to build, but if you buy money generating things right out of the gate, then it will not be a problem. Unfortunately I did not realize this should have been part of my game playing strategy until it was to late.

I do spend a lot of time in the game, because it is fun, and I do not play any of the Zynga Shitville games or anything like that. I hate games that rely on having to have friends help you and send you shit or you can not play the game. So for that alone, Idle Worship got big bonus points in my book.

The bottom line is, Idle Worship is a really fun game to play and totally worth spending some time on, in between refreshing your news feed to see if any more cute kitty pics have been posted in the last 2 minutes.

So check it out, hopefully you will like it as much as I do. If you don't...well someone will post another kitty in a few minutes ;)

Later folks!

Here is the trailer for the game!

For all of my readers who are NOT in the United States

Hi folks. I will be writing a real post soon, but I just found out that those of my readers who are outside of the States could not see my Facebook fan page located here. Apparently there is a setting that has country restrictions, and it was set to only allow people in the United States to see it. I was horrified when I found out! So now, anyone who wants to stay connected and updated can click on the link up there, or over on the right side of my blog where the Facebook Fan Page box is, and "like" it. I would love to see more of you there on Facebook with me. I am so terribly sorry I was not aware of this sooner, but the problem is now fixed. So please, feel free to check it out and like the page if you are so inclined.

Also, new content coming soon, there has been so much going on, and I just have not had the time or energy to update, but later on today I will be posting to fill every one in.

Check back with me soon!

Have a great day everyone!

The Next Big Thing?

After almost a month of feeling like an outcast while all the "Cool Kids" had Google +, I can now say I am part of the inner "circle" heh heh.

Google + finally opened back up for a while after weeks of not being able to get in. I quickly set up my three accounts ( personal, Bella page and Blog page ) and have everything set up in it's own browser so I no longer have to log in and out of half a dozen accounts. I know three accounts seems excessive but I have my reasons for doing it.

Now comes the fun part of seeing if the people on FB want to cross over to Google +. It will take some getting used to, but I am so sick of FB freezing and making me refresh 100 times and eating my posts. I really enjoy staying in contact with people and seeing what they post but that is just ridiculous. Not to mention all the "new and improved" crap FB rolls out usually is not something I am interested in, so all the changes and bugs are not worth it. I do not video chat, so I was really disappointed when the great new thing in FB was a video chat feature.

So if anyone is interested in linking up, feel free to add me.My Bella page addy is bellafoxglove@gmail.com and the page for the blog is memoirsofacrazywitch@gmail.com. Connect with me!


Networking is important to most of us, as blog writers, so I feel that for those of us it matters to should keep abreast of the new social media networks.  So far I am really enjoying it, and I hope to see you there!

Shameless self promotion!

So as I mentioned a couple of posts ago, I made myself a Facebook Fan page. I have the little widget over there in the left hand column, but it likes to show double pictures and is generally wonky, so I thought I would post a link directly to the page.


It will make me happy and feel full of rainbows and butterflies and other random happy things so click HERE and make me feel special, okay?


K Thx Bai!