- I'm trying to move out the camera bit
because a lot of comments ask me to.
"Please, can I be further away from your face?"
Okay. Noted.
(bubbling)
Hi, I'm Clare, and welcome back to my YouTube channel.
First if all, I had a poll on last week's video
where I asked you what you wanted to see this week,
and I know that you all voted
to see my dressed as Ariana Grande for a week,
but I'm gonna need a little more time
to get that video finished.
I started the challenge, I guess you could call it,
and I realized it's not gonna be a true
effort unless I get hair extensions.
So, I'm gonna get some hair extensions,
and then we're gonna try this again.
And I'm gonna dress like Ariana Grande for a full week.
So, today, what I have for you is
an announcement/story time.
As you can tell by the title of this video,
I am crowdfunding a book.
But the story of The Irish Bucket List, as a book,
started almost exactly three years ago.
I posted a Vlogmas video in December 2015
where I cataloged myself, very subtly,
going to a meeting with the book publisher,
which I say in the video
"I'm going to a meeting about a book."
And then after the meeting,
I filmed myself in my car being like
"I have no news to share, whatsoever."
So, I've just finished my third meeting there,
and I have absolutely no news to report, whatsoever.
No news, whatsoever.
(screams)
Real subtle stuff.
(sighs)
A while later, I posted another video
where I called my dad with the good news,
and this video was me announcing that The Irish Bucket List,
a series that I have had on YouTube for years,
is finally going to made into a travel book.
(phone rings)
Oh dad, come on.
- [Clare's Dad] Hello!
- Hello, Dad!
Yes, Irish Bucket List is actually gonna be a book!
- [Clare's Dad] Oh ho! Woo!
- Blackwater Press is a small Irish publishing house,
family owned and run,
that had worked with a number of big Irish Youtubers.
They had done Makeup Fairy's book,
they had done two books with So Sue Me,
and they had done a book, most recently, before I met them,
with @sineadycady, TheMakeupChair,
who I mentioned in my last video as well
if you wanna go check that out.
So, the book was to be based on my YouTube series,
called The Irish Bucket List,
where I traveled around Ireland
doing all of the cool things there is to do.
We were going to include
a hundred different activities in the book.
So, I had about a year to write the book.
One memory sticks out clearly for me
around writing this book.
One came as a location tour on a bus
that was bringing us to all the different
scenes and locations.
And on that bus, I was typing my little heart out
on my little Chromebook, and then
I would get off the bus and shoot footage
for my episode that was going to be
going up in a week to two.
So, basically, I was totally
burning the handle at both ends.
While it would be a lie to say I enjoyed writing a book,
writing a book kinda sucks,
I was very excited for the final bit of it.
The actual book part.
The idea had been to release the book
just in time for Christmas.
Think it was around October, if I recall correctly,
that we got the news that the man,
who ran the publishing agency,
that he had actually passed away.
Any books that were due to go out that Christmas
weren't happening.
When I announced the book first,
I'd put up a video on my channel of me
calling my dad with the good news.
So, when I received this news,
I had to go then and I created another video
where I called my dad with the bad news.
So, you know my book was meant to be out next month.
I just got word back that they're actually
closing down the company.
- [Clare's Dad] Okay. Alright.
So, that's it. No book.
(laughs)
I remember on that video, I got a few comments being like
"Typical Clis-sare. Making it all about you."
Yeah. Typical.
Every time my publisher has died, I've made it all about me.
Fast forward to 2018, I've sat on this book
for like, a year and a half.
A short enough time ago, I think it was only two months ago,
a man named Phil from a company called Unbound
got in touch with me.
I'm probably going to explain this wrong.
Unbound is like a company in the UK and they make books.
And they're like a crowd-funding website for books.
I should work in marketing.
Basically, I am going to attempt to launch
a crowd-funding campaign for my book.
I'd like a coffee table hardback that,
for each activity, has color photos,
which is one of the more expensive books that you can make.
We've set up an Unbound crowd-funding page.
It works very like Kickstarter, so, you know,
if you pledge this much, you will get the product,
et cetera, et cetera.
I know that there were a couple of hundred people
that did want to see this book become a reality,
because they signed up to the mailing list for updates.
Here's the update. It is happening.
It's happening by a crowd-funding.
I really, really hope that we can make this happen.
Worse case scenario, we don't hit the crowd-funding goal
and everybody gets refunded.
So, why not give it a shot?
Piss in the wind and see what blows back.
Ewww!
The link to my Unbound page, that's very hard to say,
is down in the, blagh,
is down in the description.
The link to my Unbound page is down in the description.
Please check it out.
If you can at all, please pledge.
If you just wanna support the book,
but you don't want a copy of it, we do have a one euro tier.
Tiers that, you know, you get signed copies of the book,
or you get two copies of the book,
or you get an all deal book, or you get,
you know, an e-book.
It will happen in all forms in for all senses,
if we hit our targets.
I wanna say a quick "thank you" to everyone who has
really supported the new type of content
that I'm putting out,
and I'm really enjoying making it.
I'm really enjoying being on YouTube again.
Another poll to see what you want to see next week.
Please subscribe to my channel.
Thank you very much for watching,
and I'll see you in the next one.
Okay. Bye.
Bye-bye. Bye.
Bye.
(bright pop music)
by the way, there's a good chance that I may have
forgotten information in this video.
If I've forgotten any important information,
it'll be in the first comment, pinned down below.
I am pro-
fessional like that.
Okay, bye.