The fundraising campaign for my sci-fi/comedy radio series Special Relativity is down to its last 20 days. I have just under three weeks to raise the minimum amount I need to produce the first three episodes, or I’ll have to do the right thing and return all the donations I’ve received so far and then cry until I puke. I’m pegging that minimum amount at $4000, half of my original target. So the sprint is on to reach that goal:

Special Relativity’s supporters need to donate $125 every day for the next 20 days.

To make that happen, I’m going into full pledge-drive mode. I don’t know what that means, though I have kidnapped Susan Stamberg. And over the next 20 days I’ll parade out all the special enticements and incentives I can think of to convince you to contribute. That starts right now. I’m about to let you do something that I normally would never, ever allow. You can read part of the script before the show is finished.

Click here to read a couple of early minutes from the first episode in which our hero Nox and her pet UCA (the Universe’s Cutest Animal) pay a visit to the prince of the planet of the pigeon people:

Those few script pages might just garner from you the sentiment that I’m told most often by people who’ve already contributed to Special Relativity: “I stopped reading this post three paragraphs ago.” But hopefully instead you’ll repeat the sentence I hear almost as often. Over and over people say, “We want to hear this show.” Donors aren’t dishing out disposable income because they’re altruistic. At least I hope not, because if so they’re wasting their money on me. They just want to listen to what’ll be a great series and know that the only way to do that is to pony up a few bucks.

So please join them and donate now at any amount. For only $25 you’ll get to hear the show a week before the rest of the world. $50 gets you bonus mini-episodes about the show’s nerdiest content. You can take home loads of actual physical perks to, from a mind-bending fundamental force manipulator to a Universe’s Cutest Animal shirt for your dog to an iPod Nano. You can find the whole list of perks here.

If you can’t afford to donate, you can help almost as much by telling people about the project. Please share the campaign via email, Facebook, Twitter, or your web site.

Oh, and if you only know my from my writing or my tweeting and are wondering what business I have thinking I can produce a radio series: I used to do that kinda thing for a living. You get a sample of what my work sounds like by watching the “video” on the campaign page.

So that’s it. Thanks for reading this far. $125 a day. Go!

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