Mini Minority Monsters

About

In November 2016 we funded Minority Monsters, a spotters guide to Alphabet Soup Land and the LGBT+ Queer creatures you can find there. You can click on the pages below to read a pdf sample of the book:

It's suitable for ages 12+ (has a few swears and general blunt language dealing with gender and sexuality) and features creatures such as the Bisexual Unicorn, Genderqueer Merperson, and of course, the Asexual Succubus.

The comics originally ran on Discord Comics here, but the book added information sections correcting common myths, guides to Seas of Alternative Gender, and lots of other neat stuff. It turned a gag strip comic into a helpful resource, both for those wishing to learn about LGBT+ issues and those who have been there, done that, got the t-shirt and want to read about characters like them.

After a year of battling an evil printer to no avail, finding a new supplier and packing hundreds of beautiful books, finally the quest was over and we could all live happily ever after....

Except there’s one little problem…

So MANY people wanted to visit alphabet soup land that we’re running out of books! And that’s where I need your help…

Mini minority monsters! It’s a traveller's guide to gender and sexuality, with all the fun of the first book, squeezed down into an easy to carry paperback.

As well as all the queer creatures of the first book there will be some updated sections which includes:

• More Demi/Grey-A information
• Better laid out the transgender section with some more illustrations
• A Pride Flag guide with all the colours
• History of pride as a protest

The main goals of this kickstarter is to:

• Cover reprinting costs for a softback edition
• Fund an audiobook so you can listen on the move and make the project accessible to those who don't use visual guides
• Make use of the misprinted copies
  

Here to explain the money break down is a very helpful cake from our own Asexual Succubus, Lucie Decline:

The biggest slice is pure printing costs, followed by shipping, money to pay other people to help with the audio book, kickstarter fees, and a contingency fund which was very helpful to me last time with the misprinted copies.

It’s a sad story, but the first printer I used for these books messed up the page order and refused to take responsibility for it. I used my own money to reprint the books with a different printer plus £500+ in court and bailiff fees. I won the case but they phoenixed their company, leaving an empty shell and a bunch of unhappy, out of pocket customers like me.

To try and make a positive spin on it I’ve been donating the misprinted books charities, youth groups etc, anyone who could make use of them and doesn’t mind that the pages are a bit squiffy. I’m also using them to create the Adopt-a-monster prints so I can give some parts of them a home.