The Memoirs of Anna Nomaly — Carol-Ann child, teen punk, and comic-style punk rebel

Lock in the $25 Founder's Edition while early-bird slots remain.

Back This Project — $25 Reward →
Funding closes in

Choose Your Pledge

Five Ways to Back the Story

Every tier unlocks the previous. Open Kickstarter in one click — your pledge is just a tap away.

Tier 1
$10~C$14

The Bookmark

Start reading before anyone else.

  • PDF excerpt — Chapters 1 & 2 of the manuscript
  • Digital bookmark wallpaper (desktop + mobile)
  • Name listed in the online Backer Roll
Estimated delivery: March 2027
Back this tier →
Tier 2
$25~C$34

The Observer

The novel. Yours, in digital.

  • Everything in Tier 1
  • Digital novel — ePub + PDF
  • Creator's commentary audio — Evadyne reads the author's note and discusses what drove Part 1
  • Name in online Backer Roll
Estimated delivery: March 2027
Back this tier →
Most Popular
$55~C$74

The Witness

Hold the story. Read it again.

  • Everything in Tier 2
  • Signed paperback novel — standard edition, shipped anywhere
  • Name printed in the acknowledgment page
  • Early access to reader's guide (pre-publication)
Estimated delivery: June 2027
Back this tier →
Tier 4
$100~C$135

The Advocate

All formats. All of it.

  • Everything in Tier 3
  • Graphic novel — softcover illustrated edition (Chapters 1–13)
  • Full audiobook — narrated by the author
  • Screenplay draft — formatted PDF, ready to read
  • Framed 8×10" artwork print (signed) — panel reproduction from the graphic novel
  • Access to backer-only Discord channel
Estimated delivery: September 2027
Back this tier →
Founders Edition
$250~C$335

The Founder's Edition

The complete package. Numbered. Signed. Yours.

  • Everything in Tier 4
  • Numbered hardcover novel — leather-feel cover, signed by Evadyne Hyden
  • Graphic novel — hardcover collector's edition
  • Founder's Circle — named in the printed book AND on the website as founding patron
  • Character concept art print — original illustration, signed and numbered
  • Early access to screenplay — draft version for review before final cut
  • All stretch goal rewards unlocked at every tier — yours automatically
Estimated delivery: September 2027
Back this tier →

Not ready to back yet?

Get a free sample chapter

Drop your email and we'll send Chapter 1 straight to your inbox.

The Book

Anna Nomaly grew up at the margins — rural, poor, watching the people she loved get swallowed by systems that were never designed to help them.

This is not a redemption story. It's a document: of what it costs to leave, what it takes to survive, and what the land gives back when everything else fails.

The Cause

20% of every sale funds Resilient Rebels — a rural community reintegration program. Harm reduction. Addictions management. Transferable skills. Off-grid cabin construction.

Not charity. Infrastructure.

A StoryBound Release Supports

RESILIENT REBELS — HARM REDUCTION HUB

20% of every sale funds this work

Five Formats. One Story.

Novel Cover — The Memoirs of Anna Nomaly by Evadyne Hyden

Novel Cover — The Memoirs of Anna Nomaly by Evadyne Hyden

Novel

Full prose — the 80,000-word manuscript as it was meant to be read. Clean typeset, built for a printed page.

Graphic Novel

Panels, gutters, silence. The memoir, illustrated — because some moments need to be seen, not described.

Audiobook

Narrated in full. For the commute, the kitchen, the long dark nights. Anna's voice, in your ears.

Script

Formatted for the screen. Every chapter, every scene, every silence — ready for adaptation.

What Resilient Rebels
actually does

Not a shelter. Not a hotline. Not a government grant program.

A working community built around harm reduction, clean supply access, job training, and cabin construction. People come in. People learn skills. People leave with infrastructure — not just hope.

20% of every sale from The Memoirs of Anna Nomaly funds this work.

20%
of every sale goes directly to Resilient Rebels
buy once — the story lives in every format, forever
5
simultaneous release formats, one manuscript

"Chapter 1 is nearly ready. Be the first to read it."