Levin finished
writing The Man Who Never Sleeps in early 2004. In an email to his old
friend Schaffer -- an engineer living in Las Angeles -- Levin mentioned
that he'd have to begin saving money to self publish. A week or so later,
Schaffer's father, still in Australia, called and said: "The whole
familly got together and decided to put up the money for you!"
That was the begining of Wolfty And Cliff Publishing, named after Schaffer's
( and his brother Dwigh's) grandparents.
Levin talked them into paying for three thousand copies.
Besides the proof reading, which was done by the "mother" of
W & C (preferring to remain annonomous), the actuall working staff
of W & C consists of two people: Lukas Bendel (a drummer well-known
on the Darwin music scene) and Levin Diatschenko. Together they did the
formatting, cover design, web site and advertising. They'd get together
in the mornings and work whole days, drinking coffee, and then vodka when
the going got tough.
Every starving artist should get themselves a Wolfty And Cliff!
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