Diet Soap Podcast Year Three Fundraiser – Pick Your Battle

This Saturday, April 16th will mark the beginning of the third year of the Diet Soap podcast, which perhaps goes to show that the idea of a quickening isn’t so insane after all. In the last week I’ve received word from the writer and editor Glen Krisch to inform me that he’s finished editing the manuscript for Pick Your Battle : Your Guide to Urban Foraging, Hollywood Films, Late Capitalism, and the Communist Alternative (a memoir), and MK Hobson has delivered a terrific design for the cover of the book.

Given that the book was funded largely by listeners to the podcast let me start my appeal by noting that if you pledged to the Kickstarter Campaign that your book will be mailed out first. Thank you for helping me create what I hope will be a worthwhile part of a larger conversation around ecology, food, and the crisis that has hit our social economy. I couldn’t have done this without you guys.

But what about the copies of the book that are not already spoken for? What I’ve decided to do is send the book as a reward to anyone who makes a donation to the podcast. The minimum donation that will qualify will be $6, and I’m setting this minimum to cover the cost of mailing the book and to cover other expenses including the percentage taken by paypal. Of course, there is not a maximum amount a person can donate, and people who enjoy the podcast and want Diet Soap to continue are encourage to donate just exactly as much as they feel they can afford. The paypal button is located in the top right hand corner of this blog, at dietsoapcast.com, and at dietsoap.podomatic.com.

Again, the next steps before the Pick Your Battle book ships is to have the interior lay-out completed, get the pdfs to the printer, and then get the printed books back in the mail. Donations to the podcast are a way to pre-order your book. And before you go, listen to what the Monty Python players have to say about something wholly unrelated: