<div>Mita is trapped on a corporate-built island made out of literal garbage. While toiling away in the dangerous work as a lure pilot to harvest megafish, she’s trying to pay off a couple of lifetimes of debt. Unfortunately, the Company owns everything, down to the air she breathes.
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<div>Her only ticket off this trash heap for both her and her inventor sister is to compete in the International Air Games, flying her home-built, scrap-metal airplane in the sport of aerial paintball combat. Except she’s got no dogfighting experience and no armaments.
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<div>What does Mita need?
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<div>$15,000 for professional editing, art, sensitivity reading, and audiobook production costs is the runaway fee required to get her airborne. Help put the revolutionary novel series Scrapped Hope into your and other reader’s hands and ears!
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<div>I’ve spent six years giving Mita her voice, crafting the world around her as its architect. Mita will capture and break your heart as she faces personal roadblocks and systemic barriers to her agency and freedom. She fights for more than just herself. Her battle is one for her people too—those subjugated by greed and prejudice. In its pages you’ll find hope crafted from the discard pile and metamorphosed into the joy and power of resistance.
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<div>Scrapped Hope merges the found-family heart of Becky Chambers with the acerbic wit and anti-corporate resistance of Martha Wells' Murderbot Diaries. It’s perfect for readers who demand stories where the heart of the character is the engine powering the action. And it’s got groundbreaking disability representation too!
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<div>Why does this story matter? Let Mita tell you herself:
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<div><em>They call me a troublemaker. </em>
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<div><em>A jinx. </em>
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<div><em>A hazard who doesn't know her limits.</em>
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<div><em>Fine. Let them talk.</em>
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<div><em>My name is Mita, and I’m the best derelict pilot on this trash-heap island, even if the Company owns the air I fly in and the minutes I breathe. My job is luring monsters from caustic seas, but my dream is the International Air Games—my one shot at buying freedom for myself, my sister, and my community.</em>
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<div><em>So yeah, I push my castoff plane a little hard. I carve corners through deadly spires they won't even fly near. What else am I supposed to do?</em>
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<div><em>But today, my ambition finally outpaced my skill. I tangled with a legend of the deep, a beast that wasn't on any of the charts. The comms screamed for me to run. Protocol demanded I retreat. But I saw a chance for a catch that would make me a legend.</em>
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<div><em>Now I'm grounded. Permanently. Fined a second lifetime of debt. My one shot at a better life is ash, and I've dragged everyone I love into the depths with me.</em>
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<div><em>So let them call me a troublemaker. They haven't seen nothin’ yet.</em>
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<div>What early readers are saying:
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<div>“I sat down to read a chapter or two, and then just three, and then four, and then I couldn't put the book down. I felt like Remy cared, that they gave a damn about my experience as a reader. It's interesting, because I'm not in the disability community, yet I felt somehow invited into it, like I've been allowed behind the curtain, and therefore I feel accepted in the process of others being accepted. The aviation and combat sequences kept me locked in to a captivating world.”
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<div>Christopher Hopper - Bestselling Sci-Fi Author
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<div>“Scrapped Hope is a whirlwind of excellence.The pure joy I feel when Mita [spoiler] is magical.”
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<div>“I’m all in. It’s not just because of the action. It’s because I feel what it is like to interact with the world.”
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<div>Natalie Lomske
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<div>Where does the money go?
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<div>Your contributions to this GoFundMe covers the publishing costs needed to get the first book of the series, and my debut novel, into the hands of thousands. It’s the startup capital needed to launch this rebellion.
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<div>UPDATE: THE DEADLINE FOR GETTING YOUR NAME IN THE BACK OF THE BOOK HAS NOW CLOSED. YOU CAN STILL DONATE, BUT YOU WON'T HAVE YOUR NAME ADDED TO VOLUME 1.
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<div>Giving Tiers:
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<div>Deckhand Tier: $5
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<div>You buy the coffee that fuels a late-night editing session. Every bean counts, and you’re part of the crew.
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<div>Gearhead Tier: $25
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<div>You secure a vital "spare part"—contributing to covering the official ISBN number that gives Scrapped Hope its unique identity in the world.
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<div>Sky-Junker Tier: $50
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<div>You cover one hour of a sensitivity reader’s expertise, ensuring one of six main character’s disabilities are portrayed with the authenticity and respect they deserve.
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<div>Head Mechanic Tier: $75
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<div>You fund the professional editing of four chapters, transforming the manuscript into a book that’s a pleasure to read, both digitally and in print.
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<div>Inventor Tier: $100
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<div>You sponsor a full developmental edit for a key action sequence, ensuring the aerial dogfights and derelict chases are as breathtaking and visceral on the page as they are in our imaginations.
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<div>Ace Pilot Tier: $150
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<div>You help cover the costs of the book cover artwork, the first thing people will see and decide whether they’re picking it up.
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<div>Island Liberator Tier: $200
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<div>You become a direct patron of the arts, covering hours of work for our Audiobook, the most expensive part of publication.
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<div>Founding Sponsor Tier: $500
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<div>You are the cornerstone. This tier helps cover the final, professional proofread of the entire 130,000-word manuscript, erasing every last error so the story shines without distraction.
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<div>Champion For the People Tier: $1000
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<div>You contribute to the full vision.
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<div>$15,000 ensures this book will come to life!
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<div>Mita's engines are at full; she’s waiting for clearance from the tower. Will you file her flight plan to revolution?
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