First and foremost, I don't know if this is a first, so if you can point me to something like this that came before let me know and I will change the subject.
My wife is an aspiring author who, now freshely out of college, would like to write a novel. She has multiple projects in different stages of development but nothing serious yet. For this project she would be choosing a completely undeveloped story idea and attempt to fund the progress of getting this idea into a full book completely through bitcoin by tapping into and furthering the bitcoin community.
The idea is that we would accept straight up donations at first to get rolling, we would use those initial funds to buy a webserver and maybe a .bit domain. From there we would start getting things organized and really have a central place for this project. From there we would "pre-release" chapters for a small fee to raise money. One idea is to have a members area for people getting the chapters for them to vote on the direction the story takes at some points.
Later on in the process we would like to hire an editor, with bitcoins... and then fianlly convince a publisher to accept bitcoin (maybe lulu?)
What I am looking for here is firstly to gauge interest in this, secondly I am looking for ideas and or suggestions on how to implement this.
My wife writes mostly fantasy, for a samples of some of her writing you can look at her deviant art profile, specifically her book in progress Elemental.
Her profile:
http://kyrashangea.deviantart.comChapter one of Elemental:
http://kyrashangea.deviantart.com/gallery/?catpath=/&offset=120#/d10yhdvIf you would like to donate with just this information, please do! But after some developments and suggestions from this post, we hope to come out with more information and a more developed idea.