{"id":49630,"date":"2015-04-20T19:58:35","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T23:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/?p=49630"},"modified":"2015-04-21T09:43:15","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T13:43:15","slug":"waylon-lewis-kickstarter-things-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/2015\/04\/20\/waylon-lewis-kickstarter-things-like\/","title":{"rendered":"Waylon Lewis Makes ANOTHER Leap, Kickstarting a Book + a Publishing Co."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/379794650\/things-i-would-like-to-do-with-you-the-book\/widget\/video.html\" width=\"750\" height=\"563\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"> <\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/379794650\/things-i-would-like-to-do-with-you-the-book?ref=hero_thanks\" target=\"_blank\">Video link here<\/a>.) Waylon Lewis, founder of the mega-blog\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.elephantjournal.com\" target=\"_blank\">Elephant Journal<\/a>\u00a0as been something of a role-model to us, for his rare\u00a0combo-platter of\u00a0energy,\u00a0perseverence, business savvy, fearlessness, generosity, HEART and willingness to LEAP and take risks. Waylon\u00a0first launched\u00a0Elephant as a paper magazine, and then made the leap\u00a0to digital, gradually growing his readership into a massive and very active one.<\/p>\n<p>Now Waylon is trying a new venture and ANOTHER big leap: his first book, which if it flies, will be the start of Elephant Books,\u00a0an indie publishing house<!--more--> that plans to pay its authors 5 times what conventional publishers pay, a worthy and ambitious goal, given the number of very fine, <em>underpaid<\/em> writers we know. It could mean a sea-change in the publishing industry.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/379794650\/things-i-would-like-to-do-with-you-the-book?ref=hero_thanks\" target=\"_blank\">Things I Would Like to Do with You&#8217;s Kickstarter<\/a> is at day 23 of its $35,000 goal.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49635\" src=\"https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Waylon-Lewis-book-cover.jpg\" alt=\"Waylon Lewis book cover\" width=\"444\" height=\"583\" srcset=\"https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Waylon-Lewis-book-cover.jpg 444w, https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Waylon-Lewis-book-cover-228x300.jpg 228w, https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Waylon-Lewis-book-cover-321x422.jpg 321w, https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Waylon-Lewis-book-cover-380x500.jpg 380w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 444px) 100vw, 444px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>It was written as I approached my 40th birthday as a contemplation of love, and what I have learned, and what I long for, and it is something like poetry, or fiction, or an autobiography&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>It\u2019s not about me\u2014it\u2019s about our love, our longing for love, for a love that is not a Mad Men claustrophobic you-complete-me love but a love with space, appreciation, room for change, a sense of humor, even an edge of tenderhearted sadness.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elephantjournal.com\/2013\/07\/things-i-would-like-to-do-with-you-in-the-woods\/\" target=\"_blank\">read the first chapter here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49633\" src=\"https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Waylon-Lewis.png\" alt=\"Waylon Lewis\" width=\"700\" height=\"691\" srcset=\"https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Waylon-Lewis.png 700w, https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Waylon-Lewis-100x100.png 100w, https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Waylon-Lewis-300x296.png 300w, https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Waylon-Lewis-422x416.png 422w, https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Waylon-Lewis-90x90.png 90w, https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Waylon-Lewis-500x493.png 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waylon Lewis, founder of the mega-blog Elephant Journal is trying a new venture and ANOTHER big leap: his first book, which if it flies, will be the start of Elephant Books, an indie publishing house that could mean a sea-change in the publishing industry.<\/p>\n<a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\" https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/2015\/04\/20\/waylon-lewis-kickstarter-things-like\/ \">Read More<\/a>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":49653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31,6549],"tags":[3606,7510,8407],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.6 - 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