Like a webcomic, but all prose.
Like a serial, but crowdfunded.
Daron’s Guitar Chronicles tells the story of Daron Moondog (real name withheld by request) from about the time he was eighteen onward. He arrives at RIMCon (Rhode Island Musical Conservatory) in the mid-1980s, desperate to leave behind a dysfunctional family in New Jersey’s suburbs and discover himself. It’s the advent of MTV, AIDS, and punk versus metal, all of which would affect his journey searching for fame, artistic expression, and the courage to seek out the sex and love he needs.
Daron’s Guitar Chronicles is a bildungsroman, which is a fancy word for a novel where the coming of age process is long and gradual.
New posts appear every Monday and Thursday, and on Saturday too each time the Tip Jar hits $25. If the posts don’t appear as scheduled… something went horribly wrong technologically. Posts appear at 12 noon Eastern US time. The site had a soft launch on November 1st, 2009 and a “real launch” on November 9th 2009.
Sometimes “liner notes” posts appear on other days, too, as a bonus.
News: March 4, 2010. Daron’s Guitar Chronicles has won the 2010 Rose and Bay Award for crowdfunded fiction!
