Real People Romance: An Adventure in Crowdfunding

By Kari Kilgore

When your campaign goes too well!

Thrilled to help his best friend create a great crowdfunding campaign for her writing, Henry hosts a watch party. All of them cheering on her series called Real People Romance.

The cute guy attending makes Henry's night even better.

Until demand for one goofy reward gets out of hand.

Find out what happens when a project gets more support than the creators planned for.

 

An excerpt from Real People Romance:

Careful What You Wish For

"Better get in here, Ms. Thing. Lines are about to be crossed!"

Sure enough, by the time Henry and Jess got close enough to see the monitor, the red numbers at the top clicked over and turned green. Digital fireworks flashed across the screen, and a banner popped up at the top.

Congratulations, Real People Romance, NerdNest Fledgling Campaign!

The room erupted into cheers, and Henry picked Jess up, whispering into her ear.

"I knew you could do it."

She kissed his cheek. "Get ready to pull your hair out trying to teach me cover design."

Daisy Girl charged into the room with a curious "woof," and Jess joined the wagging pit bull in a joyful circuit of the room. Henry leaned closer, wondering what reward had kicked the campaign over the top barely twelve hours after it started.

"Oh, this could get ugly."

• Language: English
• Publisher: Spiral Publishing, Ltd
• Release date: Apr 27, 2020
• ISBN: 9781393331759

Kari Kilgore

Kari Kilgore started her first published novel Until Death in Transylvania, Romania, and finished it in Room 217 at the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado, where Stephen King got the idea for The Shining. That’s just one example of how real world inspiration drives her fiction. Kari’s first published novel Until Death was included on the Preliminary Ballot for the Bram Stoker Award for Outstanding Achievement in a First Novel in 2016. It was also a finalist for the Golden Stake Award at the Vampire Arts Festival in 2018. Recent professional short story sales include three to Fiction River anthology magazine, with the first due out in the September issue. Kari also has two stories in a holiday-themed anthology project with Kristine Kathryn Rusch due out over the holidays in 2019. Kari writes fantasy, science fiction, horror, and contemporary fiction, and she’s happiest when she surprises herself. She lives at the end of a long dirt road in the middle of the woods with her husband Jason Adams, various house critters, and wildlife they’re better off not knowing more about. Kari’s novels, novellas, and short stories are available at www.spiralpublishing.net, which also publishes books by Frank Kilgore and Jason Adams. For more information about Kari, upcoming publications, her travels and adventures, and random cool things that catch her attention, visit www.karikilgore.com.

Book preview

Real People Romance

For everyone who has the courage to try

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and succeeds beyond their wildest dreams.

Real People Romance

An Adventure in Crowdfunding

Kari Kilgore

Spiral Publishing, Ltd.

Real People Romance

An Adventure in Crowdfunding

Henry McFarland tried to hide his smile as he surveyed the crowd gathered in his temporarily expanded living room. Eleven people, all clutching some kind of beverage, none of them far from nervous handfuls from huge bowls of chips or fruit or popcorn. All leaning forward on the mismatched chairs and sofas and loveseats brought in from various studio spaces in the huge loft apartment.

Old fashioned velvet wingback mixed with casual and low-slung mixed with black leather and steel modern. Colors and textures that harmonized with one of the various backdrops in the studios, but left Henry thankful for soft lamplight with them all jumbled together.

The ceiling and several of the walls throughout the loft were painted black, but if he turned on the overhead work lights, his eyes would be crying for mercy.

Everyone occupying the mishmash of style and era