Publish "Blood of Invidia" Book

Father and Son Authors , that have never met, write SciFi Novel.

“Some kids build soapbox derby cars with their fathers. My dad and I built an entire universe,” said Morgen Batten, referring to “Blood of Invidia”, the new novel he co-authored with his father, Tom Tinney. While father-son collaborations are nothing new, theirs is unique. They’ve never met in person. Not once. Circumstances have kept them apart for the last thirty-two years.

Morgen was raised, and resides, in Adelaide, Australia. Tom currently lives in Hartford, WI. They’re both talented and creative writers with a love for the same genres, Science Fiction and Fantasy. Two years ago, Tom wrote an “We should write a book together” text, the ensuing string of texts formed the backbone of the plot and beginning of the universe they would build. That’s when they began this project in earnest. The first goal was to produce a unique and exciting novel. The second goal is to use the proceeds from its sales to fund their first meeting.

Unable to be in the same room, or even easily call to discuss minor plot or character points, planning and technology became their allies. The 300-page book was written in the “cloud” using Dropbox to hold the important files, drafts, spreadsheets, and outlines. There were narrow time windows, when neither was at work and both were up (one going to bed or one just starting their day) when they could Skype to brainstorm and coordinate the next section. That was the process. One author contributing their words, and ideas, twelve hours later, the other wrote his part, adding to the book when the sunlight reached his side of the world.

This is their first father and son project. Their Soapbox Derby car. The project they didn’t have the opportunity to pursue earlier in either’s life. And it will let them finally meet.

It’s not a trip across town, or even cross-country. That would be too simple. This is a meeting that will bring two people together from halfway around the globe (16,000 km or 9,900 miles). While they’ve had a meeting of the minds, they now anticipate meeting in person through the success of “Blood of Invidia”.

What's the book about that you'll be supporting?

10,000 years ago, a majestic race of beings waged war across our galaxy. They were the Invidians and they conquered worlds. They were driven to build their empire and fulfill their destiny. But they were mortal, so they sought the secret to eternal life. They found it.

And then the Invidians disappeared.

In our near future, powerful and deadly aliens battle in the streets of New York, captured on social media. The question of "Are we alone?" is answered.

Shortly after, three friends find themselves entangled with a mysterious stranger, discovering that humanity isn't so high on the food chain, and might just be a breadcrumb on the path paved with the “Blood of Invidia”.

Want to join the party?

There'll be a live simulcast on Oct 2st at 6 PM with Morgen Batten from Adelaide and Tom Tinney from Hartford to discuss the Oct 24th release of their Father and Son Science Fiction Action novel "Blood of Invidia".

They'll be talking about how the book came to be, what the purpose of the project is and taking questions, via the feeds (Facebook and Twitter) from attendees. They will also be giving away some VERY unique prizes.

They'll be drawing to give away FREE Kindle Copies of the book to attendees...and IF we hit the gofundme.com mark of $750, 4 people (2 in AU and 2 in US) might get 1 of ONLY 20 copies of "Blood of Invidia" that will EVER be signed by both authors.

Part 1 of the party starts in Adelaide, held online a few hours earlier at 6 PM Oct 21st Adelaide time ACDT.(click this link)

Part 2 will be in the US 6 PM Central time the same day (Click this link)

 Come join the fun!

More background:

In our book (Science Fiction/Paranormal), we examine human history and what it means to be human. We do this using action, technology, great characters and their interactions with Aliens, Vampires and Lupines. (Oh,my!!)

Please note that the incredible book cover (by Artist John Gallagher) was made  possbile with donations from this crowdfund effort. The preliminary readings have contained high praise, but there's work left to do.  Beta reads to get through, professional editing and a Promotional effort to follow. We also need to fund the initial marketing. The budget to complete this work, along with preliminary marketing, is $750 (Revised).

“Blood of Invidia” started as a sequence of text messages between Morgen Batten (who lives in Australia) and myself (Tom Tinney, here in the USA). “We should write a book about...” began the process and our dream. I saved those messages, and years later, after I published my book ( Threads ), and contributed to a compilation (The Future is Short ), I applied my “Self-Publishing” experience to start this project. Morgen and I have been writing this book in the cloud for the last year. He from Adelaide and me from Hartford, Wisconsin, always 16 hours apart. We're now close to finishing it. A draft preview of the first chapter can be seen here: "Hero of Invidia"

Morgen is my son. While a Father/Son book may be nothing special to most, it is to us. Morgen (age 31) and I (age 52) have never met. We've never been in the same room. Over the last 10 years, we've talked and Skyped, but our finances, the distance and timing haven't worked out to allow us to actually meet and spend time together, face to face, so we're making this effort to produce an enjoyable book that can generate the sales royalties to allow us this long overdue time together.

We're not asking anyone to fund our travel (although any money left over from publishing costs and marketing will go into that pool), we want to let the book royalties pay our way, through our combined efforts.

We hope our story and the work that we're putting into this book inspires you to donate and make our two dreams come true. This project allows us to meet, as well as create the beginning of a great series of books.

Every bit of funding helps and is accepted with appreciation, but we also added reward incentives below for those that want to participate with larger donations.