Missed out on this year's Dark Mofo, or would you love to re-experience the festival's spectacular bacchanalian banquet once more - now you can in the comfort of your own home or backyard next to a blazing fire ...

WINTER WILD: A FEAST OF DARK DELIGHTS is my new upcoming award-winning coffee table book.

(Australia Food Book of the Year (Fighting Covid),Gourmand World Cookbook Awards, 2021).

Foreword is by Jo Cook, Food Curator, Dark Mofo Winter Feast, Dark Mofo, MONA

Author + Publisher: Janice Sutton

Food Photography: Dearna Bond + Janice Sutton. 

Design Ian Wallace + Janice Sutton.

GETTING INTO THE MOOD

"Immerse yourself in deepest darkest Winter with this sumptuous culinary tome celebrating our coolest season by internationally award-winning cookbook author and publisher, Janice Sutton.

Set your taste-buds on fire as you embark on a thrilling gastronomic rollercoaster ride that takes you from the pulsating dark heart of Dark Mofo’s spectacular Winter Feast, to the midnight banquets, seductive supper clubs and dark dinners unearthed in the 'Dark Fringe’ created in honour of Tasmania’s iconic festival of darkness. 

Descend into ‘Dante’s Inferno’ to resurrect your corpses with a cornucopia of cocktails created by a legion of Tasmania’s most celebrated distilleries and bars; Indulge your sweet cravings with a banquet of dark and delectable delights from Tasmania’s Chocolate Winter-Fest and other feasts of darkness; Learn how to master the flames with Mona’s (Tasmania's Museum of Old + New Art) Heavy Metal Kitchen, and appease your ‘inner glutton’ with a smorgasbord of succulent slow-cooked and fire-cooked dishes inspired by an array of cuisines from around the world.

Brimming with stunning images, this spectacular ode to Winter, contains more than 180 delicious recipes - many especially recreated for this book – including recipes from Mona’s Heavy Metal Kitchen, inspired chef collaborations from the Dark Mofo Winter Feast, the Huon Valley + Willie Smith’s Mid-Winter Fest., and from across the dark bass strait a bounty of divine culinary creations from the WinterWild Festival in Apollo Bay, Victoria + the Feast of the Beast + Winter Fire festivals in New South Wales".

CORPSE REVIVERS + SWEET + SAVOURY DELIGHTS

More than 40 cocktails from Tasmania's top distilleries and bars, including some hotties for those who like it hot, dark an dirty. You will also find more than 30 sumptuously dark desserts to satiate your sweetest desires, and over a 100 savoury dishes from some of Tasmania + Australia's best restaurants + chefs.

SUPPORT A FELLOW FOODIE

The food industry has been hit hard by Covid 19 world wide, and Australia is no exception. 

This sumptuous tome includes recipes shared by approximately 100 chefs, cooks and passionate foodies from throughout Tasmania and beyond. 

By helping me to get this wonderful book out there, you are also helping to support the chefs and food businesses who generously shared recipes for the book!

SPONSORSHIP

No-one has paid to be part of this project, neither have I received any sponsorship from the festivals featured in the book. The project has been solely funded by me from income from the sales of my previous books! The total cost of this project will in the region of $70,000+ (2000 books).

I hope that you enjoy the little vimeos I pulled together from the cocktail shoot! Not meant to be a pro video, just a treasured record of the making of one of the chapter's of the book. 

VIMEO 1

A few of the gorgeous images by Queen of Light Dearna Bond@dearnabond_photography

WHY I'M SEEKING FUNDING

Its been a tough year or so for so many of us I appreciate. Covid-19 has impacted all our lives in so many different ways. I know I am not alone in this, far from it. 

Covid 19 has impacted my life both personally and financially. Covid 19 stole my mum last year. It also impacted on the costs of paper, printing and transport. Covid 19 also impacted negatively on timelines, meaning that if I don't pay for air freighting a number of books over to Australia at significant extra cost, I won't get the books in time for a Winter launch.

I am therefore seeking funding to help towards the printing costs and to also help pay for 60 books to be air freighted to Australia at significant cost so that I can launch the book in Winter. This could mean the difference between the success or failure of this book project - you can't launch a winter book in spring!

I would be so very grateful therefore for your help!

CAMPAIGN AWARDS

I have some wonderful awards on offer to entice you I hope - including of course, copies of my new award winning coffee table book Winter Wild.

Support this campaing by PRE ORDERING a copy of WINTER WILD or you can help by buying one of my other award-winning books. 

SUPPORT AN AUSTRALIAN AUTHOR

You will also be supporting a hard working Australian author directly by supporting this campaign and by ordering a copy of my books directly from me (distributors take up to 75%). 

WHERE IS THE BOOK PROJECT AT NOW?

From a creative perspective the book is finished. Yeh!

From a financial perspective, all production costs have been paid for (except my time) plus 50% of the printing costs. The remaining 50% is still due plus I will have to pay GST and import taxes when the consignment arrives at Melbourne Port in addition.

NO RISK - NO PLEDGES ARE TAKEN IF THIS CAMPAIGN IS NOT SUCCESSFUL ...

Importantly also for prospective pledgers, there is NO QUESTION this book will be printed and transported to Australia, regardless of the success or not of this campaign. I have already organised to borrow the additoinal funds I need. However, there will be interest on this loan, and having to borrow the extra funds will plunge me into further debt at a precarious time. 

Pre-ordering copies of this beautiful award winning book should this campaign be successful, can help prevent that, and also help towards the success of the book. 

VIMEO 2

BUDGET

I have already paid 50% deposit ($22,600) to the printing company (Everbest Printing International Ltd based in Hong Kong) and have paid all other book costs to date (photography, design), other than GST and import tax at Melbourne Port when the books arrive by sea freight.

There are no other costs outstanding other than the remaining 50% of printing costs I have to pay, import levies and GST.

Estimated timeline for delivery currently Early-Mid August. 

The total budget for this book was approx $70,000+ in total. Not including my time.

Note: I will still proceed with this book regardless of the success of this campaign. So please do keep an eye on how it is going and keep in touch. 

Thank you for your consideration + support.