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Bloom Protocol // Post-Production Fund

Days to put
this world on screen.

Two books published. A third in development. The crew is building the trailer right now, and it goes to the Future Vision XPRIZE on August 15. I need $5,000 to pay them, and I would rather you were in the room for this than hear about it after.

The situation

Five years ago I started writing a world where the extractive systems actually got replaced. Not reformed. Not disrupted. Replaced, by something that works the way living systems work.

Book One, The Awakening, is published. Book Two, The Remembering, is published. Book Three is in active development.

On August 15 I submit The Bloom Protocol to the Future Vision XPRIZE. A three-minute trailer and a twelve-page treatment for a forty-episode series. Grand prize is $2.6 million with Range attached as producers.

The trailer is in production right now. This week the crew is placing the music, recording the voiceover, and rendering the illustration work for the glyphs and the characters. All of it has to be finished and delivered inside eight days.

That costs $5,000, and the people doing the work need paying this week.

So I am asking you directly, because you are already here.

This is the ground floor

The Bloom Protocol is not a one-off. Book Three is in development. The treatment covers forty episodes.

As this moves from page to screen there will be production roles, vendor partnerships, illustration and design contracts, music licensing, product placement, and community events. Real work, paid, over years.

The people in this room first hear about all of it first. That is what this actually is. Not a fundraiser with a widget at the end. A door.

Where it goes

Video and post production$2,500
Illustration and glyph render passes$500
Reserve: narration, licensing, shipping, processing fees$2,000
Total$5,000

Every line above is money going to a person doing the work. If we clear the goal, the overage goes to the Book Three development fund and I will say so publicly.

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The Signal
$25
You are on the record. Your name published with the production, on this page and in the production record.
The Archive
$75
You are in the world-building room. Everything in The Signal, plus the insider file: every character plate, every glyph, the codes and the reader guides. The things you only want if you have been paying attention.
Built after submission clears, in your hands by August 31
The Witness
$150
You hold a piece of it. Everything in The Archive, plus an original special edition of Book One, The Awakening, with the numbers, codes, symbols and reader guides. Signed and shipped to you.
The Steward
$500
You are in the credits. Everything in The Witness, plus your name in the feature production materials, thirty minutes with me on anything you want to talk about, and first access to vendor and collaboration conversations as they open. This tier is for people who want to be part of the making, not just the audience.

Pay with PayPal, Venmo, or any credit card. No PayPal account needed.

Every contributor, at every tier, gets first call on production opportunities as the series develops. Crew calls, vendor needs, placements, screenings. You will not have to wait for a job board. You are already in the room.

What you are actually getting

A stake in a production, early, before it is a thing everyone knows about.

Your name goes on the record. You see the work before anyone outside the crew. You get the reference material the illustrators are drawing from. And when the roles and contracts open up on a forty-episode series, you hear first.

You are buying in, not chipping in.

The contributor roll

This is where your name goes. The roll updates daily through the campaign, and I will email you to confirm exactly how you want yours to read before it is published.

Questions

When does everything arrive?
Your name goes on the roll within a day. Signed special editions ship within ten days. The insider file reaches you by August 31, and I would rather tell you it is still being built than pretend it is sitting in a folder waiting.
Can I see the trailer?
Not yet. Competition rules keep it private until finalists are announced at the end of August. Patrons get it first, the hour it clears.
What if you do not hit $5,000?
I cover the gap myself and the work gets finished anyway. Your money goes to the same line items either way.
Who is handling the payment?
PayPal. Your payment details go to them, never to me, and your receipt arrives by email immediately.
What happens if the trilogy does not place?
Book Three still gets written. The treatment still covers forty episodes. The trailer still exists and still gets shown to people who can move it. Placing would accelerate all of it by years. Not placing does not stop it.

Either way the work gets finished. The question is who is in the room when it does.

Be in the room