Writing a novel requires plenty of time, and Irish author Julian Gough is hoping to fund that time with a Kickstarter campaign he has dubbed Litcoin. For small amounts of money, Gough will send contributors postcards stained with whiskey, coffee, lipstick, bullet holes, or, for a mere $500, a postcard written in his blood. Litcoin’s genesis originated when Gough learned that James Joyce, who died with an estate of less than £1,000, had written a letter that sold after his death for $445,000. Litcoin then is an investment in the future when Gough is presumably dead.