Missed the Kickstarter Campaign for The Fractured Mirror Book? Then Get In On the Action With Backerkit!

For the last half decade or so I have made my living through Amazon royalties, sales of self-published books and crowd-funding campaigns. 

There are several distinct stages in crowd-funding campaigns. There’s the initial Kickstarter campaign, generally for 30 days, where you hopefully raise enough money to make a book project feasible and/or profitable. 

Then comes the Backerkit campaign. Backerkit is an exceedingly useful service that essentially extends a Kickstarter campaign indefinitely, or at least until the release of the book. 

That is the stage my upcoming book The Fractured Mirror is currently in. In a sense I have been working on The Fractured Mirror for seven years already, since I began writing the column of the same name on American movies about the film industry for TCM Backlot back in 2015, not long after letting go from The Dissolve.

My goal with the book is to write about EVERY American movie about American movies. Obviously that will be impossible but I hope to cover an exhaustive cross-section of American movies about the film industry at the very least.

The original Fractured Mirror campaign did pretty well, raising a little over eleven thousand dollars but truth be told, there are so many expenses and costs that I honestly do not know if the book will even turn a profit from its Kickstarter income, particularly once the time cost of watching and writing about so many movies is factored in.

That’s where Backerkit comes in, baby! If you missed your chance to get in on the Kickstarter campaign for The Fractured Mirror then you are in luck. You just got your second chance to give me money. Don’t blow it! I really need the money! Seriously! 

And if you did participate in the Kickstarter campaign for The Fractured Mirror you can pick up additional books n’ treats through Backerkit. 

The beautiful thing about crowd-funding is that it affords y’all an opportunity to make a book like The Fractured Mirror, or The Weird Accordion to Al, The Joy of Trash and/or The Weird A-Coloring to Al happen through your enthusiasm and your cold hard cash.

There’s something beautiful and pure about that. I appreciate it whenever anybody buys any of my books but there’s something special about crowd-funding campaigns. You should feel a sense of ownership and pride because you have made great books happen before and, god willing, you will do so again. 

What will I be covering in The Fractured Mirror? Here’s a list of the capsule reviews I have for the book so far. I’m hoping to write about 300 movies for the book, which will run between 450 and 600 pages. This is what I have already completed:

  1. Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Cops

  2. Adaptation

  3. Affairs of Annabel

  4. The Amateurs

  5. America’s Sweethearts

  6. Baadassss!

  7. The Bad and the Beautiful

  8. Barton Fink

  9. Be Kind Rewind

  10. Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon

  11. The Big Picture

  12. Blow Out

  13. Bowfinger

  14. The Cameraman

  15. The Canyons

  16. Cats Don’t Dance

  17. Cecil B. Demented

  18. Chip N’ Dale: Rescue Rangers

  19. The Comeback Trail (1982)

  20. CQ

  21. Dangerous Game

  22. The Deal

  23. The Death of Superman Lives. What Happened?

  24. Directed by John Ford

  25. The Disaster Artist

  26. Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story

  27. Entourage

  28. The Fanatic

  29. Fedora

  30. Finishing the Game

  31. For Your Consideration

  32. Get Shorty

  33. Gods and Monsters

  34. Good Times

  35. Hail Caesar!

  36. Hooper

  37. Hollywood Boulevard

  38. Hollywood or Bust

  39. Hollywood Shuffle

  40. The Hollywood Sign

  41. In a Lonely Place

  42. In the Soup

  43. Inside Daisy Clover

  44. The Independent

  45. Irreconcilable Differences

  46. It’s a Great Feeling

  47. Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back

  48. Jodorowsky’s Dune

  49. Just Write

  50. The Last of Sheila

  51. The Last Producer

  52. The Last Shot

  53. The Last Tycoon

  54. Living in Oblivion

  55. The Lonely Lady

  56. Looney Tunes: Back in Action

  57. Love Me or Leave Me

  58. Man of a Thousand Faces

  59. Mank

  60. Matinee

  61. Mistress

  62. Modern Romance

  63. Mommy Dearest

  64. Movers & Shakers

  65. Movie Crazy

  66. The Muse

  67. National Lampoon’s Another Dirty Movie

  68. National Lampoon’s Dirty Movie

  69. Not Another Not Another Movie

  70. Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood

  71. The Oscar

  72. The Other Side of the Wind

  73. Overnight

  74. The Pickle

  75. Pipe Dreams

  76. Playing It Cool

  77. The Projectionist

  78. Pulp

  79. Rented Lips

  80. Return to Horror High

  81. Rules Don’t Apply

  82. Seed of Chucky

  83. Shoot or be Shot

  84. Silent Movie

  85. Simone

  86. Singing in the Rain

  87. S.O.B.

  88. Special Effects

  89. The Star

  90. A Star is Born (1937)

  91. A Star is Born (1954)

  92. Sullivan’s Travels

  93. Sunset

  94. Sunset Boulevard

  95. Swimming with Sharks

  96. Targets

  97. Teen Titans Go! To the movies

  98. Terror Eyes

  99. That’s Adequate

  100. Three Amigos

  101. Three Geezers

  102. Tropic Thunder

  103. Two Weeks in Another Town

  104. The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent

  105. Under the Rainbow

  106. Urban Legends: The Final Cut

  107. Valley of the Dolls

  108. Wag the Dog

  109. W.C. Fields and Me

  110. Wes Craven’s New Nightmare

  111. What Price Hollywood?

  112. The Wizard of Speed and Time

  113. The Woman Chaser

  114. Won Ton Ton, The Dog That Saved Hollywood

Bear in mind, this is not the entire list. It’s only slightly more than a third of the 300 movies I’ll be covering for the book but it does give a sense of the project’s size, scope, personality and flavor. 

Is there a movie I should DEFINITELY cover for the book? Let me know! I’ll be sure to cover it, particularly if you pre-order the book!

Another great thing about Backerkit and Kickstarter is that it allows me to share the book with you while I’m working on it. I’ve been cranking out entries for The Fractured Mirror at a rapid clip. I’ve already written up something like 30 blurbs that I’ve only shared with people who pre-order the book or subscribe to my Patreon account and plan to continue posting two to three The Fractured Mirror entries every week that you can only read by preordering the book or joining my Patreon.

It’s worth it!

So get in on the ground floor now and let’s embark on this glorious journey together!

Let’s do this! 

Make it happen over at https://the-fractured-mirror.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders

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