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Cacophony by Ruby Wei

What are some noises that are drowning out your heart?

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Cacophony by Ruby Wei

Cacophony by Ruby Wei

Cacophony by Ruby Wei

Cacophony by Ruby Wei

Cacophony by Ruby Wei

What are some noises that are drowning out your heart?

What are some noises that are drowning out your heart?

What are some noises that are drowning out your heart?

What are some noises that are drowning out your heart?

Ruby Wei
Ruby Wei
Ruby Wei
Ruby Wei
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District of Columbia, United States
$5,612 USD 97 backers
102% of $5,500 Flexible Goal Flexible Goal
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The Story of Cacophony

What are some noises that are drowning out your heart?

Cacophony is the first novel in a series that explores empathy through the lens of minorities in the US and in China. Juxtaposing the lives of people with insanely different backgrounds, I tried to craft a story that means so much more than me. It's humanity. It's, in my language, 人之常情. 

Dolkar is a survivor of human trafficking- her story is wild but she is resilient. Arno is someone who has been through hell and is back again, serving this world more than anyone ever thought possible. They are met with questions such as: 

  • Is my service to others for my own sanity and ego or is it really out of deep conviction? Are they separable? 
  • How is it possible to forgive them when I can't even begin to forgive myself? 

 

Idalia is an Asian-American whose first love and career direct her towards these moments of awareness that bring her face to face with universal questions such as:

  • What do I want? What do I really want? What have I been taught to want? How do I separate that from what I really want?
  • How far should authenticity go before it becomes rude?
  • How far should I go to chase my heart when it’s been ingrained in my values to respect the shoulders upon which I stand on? Why can’t I have both? Can I make it so I have both?
  • Is he really the one I love or did I take his image and craft an ideal I want?

 

My name is Ruby Wei, and I am the author of Cacophony. I wrote this book because I just couldn’t get this story out of my head. It’s as if it has a life of its own, and all I did was engage with it throughout these past few months. The best I could do for you is to type it out and gift it to you, a time capsule of my entire heart and essence. Here, I didn’t hold anything back.

You will enjoy this book if you love a good story at the end of a long work or school week to carry you away (John Mayer anyone?) from everything grappling with your peace of mind. I have the book, you got the wine? (or get the wine bundle and I'll have the wine and the book for you) 

My sincere hope is that, after reading Cacophony, you’ll embark on the same journey I think we should all be on: to understand before we reply, to empathize before we ostracize, to learn before we judge, to love deeply, to dream wildly, to live- the best way we know how. To be kind- to ourselves as well as to everyone else.

 

What We Need & What You Get

This book will be published with New Degree Press (https://www.newdegreepress.com/). I set up the pre-order tiers to help cover the costs for publishing my book. Money raised will go towards the following:

  • The Creative Rights to own my book
  • The Editor I will work with to revise and publish my manuscript in December, 2021
  • The Cover Design of my book. (The mockups you see currently are a placeholder!)
  • The Layout Design for the interior of my book (physical copy, ebook formats)
  • The Copyediting for my book to polish the grammar and spelling prior to publication.
  • The Launch & Promotion Efforts for my book when I ultimately publish this winter
I am also offering some exclusive rewards for people who pre-order my book now:
  • You will receive a personally signed copy of my book when I publish and a handwritten thank-you note
  • Your name will appear in the Acknowledgments section of my book (“with Special Thanks to”)
  • You will receive early access to the Introduction and some excerpts from my book, with the opportunity to review it and give me early feedback
  • You will have the opportunity to be involved in selecting my cover design
  • You will be invited to join my Author Community and get behind-the-scenes sneak peeks into the publishing process
  • And much more!

 

Campaign Goals

  • $5500: the ebook and softcover editions get published 
  • $6500: hardcover edition gets published
  • $8500: audiobook edition (I'll record it for you! I like to believe I have a lovely reading voice) 
  • Every penny above break-even goes straight to charity- to be chosen by you all; essentially I don’t plan on profiting at all and I’d love to see the charities you love and care about be backed up by this book

 

About the Author

Ruby Wei is a student at Texas A&M University who will be graduating in May 2022 with a bachelor’s in Finance and a focus in Nonprofit and Social Innovation.

Cacophony came out of a place of feeling like she’s taken too much from the world and haven’t given anything back. Jokes on her, she went to an extreme and ended up giving everything back. Her whole self. Her whole heart. Everything she’s in love with, spelled out right there in front of you. Yet more than anything, she wanted to learn more about the ideas she touches on in her novel and to take her readers on a similar journey of learning. This book consists of more than just her- it's the voice of an Asian-American battling the invisibility of her people in America. Invisibility carves out space for bias, which catapults into hate, erupting into violence- this is her speaking, not just as herself, but as part of this Asian American legacy. 

Outside of her love for literature, you can catch Ruby wandering somewhere she thought she would be but ended up getting lost at. Seriously, this girl has the direction sense of a rock- if not worse. A rock wouldn’t go so far as to tell you the wrong direction. Travel with her; would you dare? She also has this thing for all action films- Jackie Chan and Marvel, especially.

 

International Preorders

For international preorders, please do the following:

1. Identify the perk that interests you, e.g. 1 or 2 paperbacks

2. Select the pink "Back it" button to "Make a contribution" for the same amount (this choice bypasses the shipping address page)

3. Use this form https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc0xLDWpu-Dds1Ug1eDulctfRruU_cRRvpURWPQVbq_GLyOnA/viewform?usp=sf_link to share your mailing address, so I can calculate the international shipping costs and invoice you for that amount via PayPal/Venmo

 

Risks & Challenges

The biggest challenge with publishing a book is delivering the finished book to the backer, specifically my mailing of the book to you. I have eliminated this risk by building into the campaign the mailing and shipping costs of your signed copies to you within each pre-order tier.

The risk of delivering the pre-sale copies of my book is contingent on the publisher we use. I will be working closely with New Degree Press to make sure we get the earliest possible ship date of the signed book copy to you. We will keep all pre-sale backers up-to-date as my book hits each key milestone and publishes. You will know when the copies are expected to ship.

 

Other Ways You Can Help

Not everyone can support, but I’d love your help! Anything goes a long way-
  • please share this Indiegogo campaign page across your social medias
  • please use #Cacophony and tag me as well as my publisher, New Degree Press, so we can help amplify your efforts
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Thank you so much for all of your love and support- you are about to make my dream come true!

Love,
Ruby

ps: stay tuned for the next novel (the idea is there, the execution? long ways away)

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