This amount for a vanity project is way too much. You're asking us to pay you $43.75 per hour to write a book that you will keep all of the profits from?

The Decentralized Hive Fund is for the development and improvement of Hive. I wish you the best with your book. I just don't see how your book will improve Hive. I also don't see how us funding your book will improve your skills as an author. Risk-free writing sounds like a recipe for mediocrity.