Hello!
I wasn't sure I should create a new topic or using this existing one, but this seems appropriate enough.
Today I'm launching a Kickstarter project in order to translate my novel King's Hope from Swedish to English. The project will run for a month, with end date of: Feb 28 2017
King's Hope is a thriller, about a deadly poker tournament, and it has been compared with The Hunger Games and Battle Royale.
My financial goal is to raise money for the translation itself, and to print an exclusive small edition, which will mainly go to backers of the project. It's quite a large sum that is needed for this project. But, for example, only about 300 people need to pledge for the level I call ”The Full House”, which includes a signed copy of the translated book, for the project to be successful. I think that is very doable, and I'm very excited to finally be able to launch the project and see what will happen.
If you want to support me and my project I would be very grateful if you could share information about it on your Facebook, or other channels. The link to the Kickstarter-project is:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1464755039/translating-novel-kings-hope-the-deadly-poker-tour
About half of King's Hope is published online at www.kingshope.net . If you want you can get a readable approximation of the novel by using Google Translate:
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=sv&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fkingshope.net%2Fomgang1%2Fkapitel%25201-3.html&edit-text=&act=url
I take no responsibility for the quality of the Google translated text :)
I will also share updates and other information in the following channels:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1464755039/translating-novel-kings-hope-the-deadly-poker-tour
www.facebook.com/hansolsson.forfattare
www.kingshope.net
www.hansolsson.net
Well, I think that's it for now. Let's see where this ends up, and in the meantime I wish you a happy February!
Thank you!
Best regards
Hans Olsson