Hardbacks, Paperbacks, eBooks Out Now! (The Machine)
The final wave of The Machine Hardbacks has just gone out, which means all our Kickstarter backers will soon be delivered their copies of Jack’s Fiction debut…
The final wave of The Machine Hardbacks has just gone out, which means all our Kickstarter backers will soon be delivered their copies of Jack’s Fiction debut - 10 years in the making! To celebrate, Build a Rocket Books have launched pre-release eBook, Paperback and Hardback copies on the Lulu bookstore. Follow the links below to order your copies today.
Please email us directly if you would like signed Hardback copies or Alternate Artwork Hardbacks and we can arrange this too for a fee of £30 per book. Thanks again for making this adventure a reality and don’t forget to leave us a review and share your thought.
The Machine is an ambitious new dystopian adventure and Jack’s Fiction debut. First draft was finished in April, 2021. The book was fully funded on Kickstarter in less than three days.
New Alternate Cover Art! (The Machine)
Great news! Our final Kickstarter rewards have now been finished by my brother, Robbie - anyone whose pledge included Digital 'The Seven' Portrait artwork will be able to pick from one of 6 A4 original works once our campaign ends. I've included 3 examples of these below for you to check out. Each one depicts characters from the book and has been carefully rendered using a selection of descriptive excerpts.
Above you'll also see another exciting last-minute addition to our rewards list: Alternate Hardback Cover Art in graffiti-style, using Robbie's adapted works. There are 15 of these exciting new rewards available now with just a few weeks to go until our campaign ends!
Siegfried
The Sentinels
V.4 Salvador
I want to say a massive thank you to everyone who has supported this campaign so far! Surveys to follow in the next 2 weeks to arrange your deliveries… :)
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The Machine Hits 100% On Kickstarter
We did it! 100% funded in less than 3 days!
I’ve been totally blown away by the support for #TheMachine - I really can't wait to share this adventure with you in a few months! I want to say a massive thank you to all our awesome backers so far. We're absolutely still accepting pledges until the full 60 days is up. For now, let’s just say - today is a good day and this wild dystopian dream is now a reality thanks to you!
I've just had proofs delivered for the Paperback and will now be finalising the Hardback and eBook next week. Once the Kickstarter 60 days is up, I will get in touch with all my backers (I'll also still be sharing updates as we go) to arrange having all their rewards shipped out to them in a timely fashion.
Watch this space for plenty more exciting updates and exclusive material.
Kickstarter Launch Day!
And we’re off! The Machine is LIVE and funding right now on Kickstarter. From here on, it’s just me and you…
Who am I?
My name is Jack Hudson - I’m a previously represented author published by Hodder and Stoughton imprint, Yellow Kite Books. I was raised in the rural outback of northern England, close to the Lake District. My first book was a travelogue (Swim Wild) about world-first swimming expeditions with my two older brothers – the ‘Wild Swimming Brothers’. We were the first people to swim across two maelstroms, in Norway: the Saltstraumen and Moskstraumen. We also swam the 90-mile length of a river in the English countryside, fuelled by being equally at odds with their urban nine-to-fives.
What is The Machine?
After ten years in the ether, I’m bringing you my Fiction debut. In short, this is something totally different to my first book. Since uni’ second year up in Newcastle, I’ve been hammering away at this little dystopian epic – an unflinching dive into a nightmarish near-future, populated by colossal walking oil drills and an omniscient android, bound to a low-orbit satellite.
The Machine has cinematic roots, inspired by the punk style of filmmaking we’ve seen from writer/directors like Neil Blomkamp (Elysium) and Alex Garland (Sunshine). I also fed off books from authors like John Lanchester (The Wall), Stanislaw Lem (Solaris) and Philip K. Dick (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep). It’s gritty, but still suited for older teens, with themes that would appeal broadly to lovers of the outdoors and adventure.
The book is also part environmental epitaph, and could be described as a travelogue of sorts, tracing interwoven narratives into Earth’s last habitable century. Actually, many scenes and characters are derived from my own personal experiences in wild and unforgettable places around the world, like India, Indonesia and Iceland.
Pledges available from our Kickstarter launch day (August 25) are:
£3 // Shoutout + First Chapter (Audio)
£5 // eBook + Digital Artwork
£15 // Get the book - Paperback!
£20 // Get the book - Hardback!
£30 // Signed Hardbacks
£35 // Hardback + Limited Edition Portrait
£60 // Book Two Character, Portrait + Hardback
£100 // Special Mention in Acknowledgements
I hope you enjoy this adventure! We’re running an exciting Kickstarter campaign with a whole lot of digital goodies and artwork thrown into the mix too. Pledge now for your chance to receive some of our awesome limited rewards and to also pick up your Paperback, Hardback or eBook copies, which will be distributed by Lulu Press as soon as the 60 day funding period is up in late October.
Huge thanks for joining me on this journey!
Love you all,
Jack
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