From: mbottorff@lshelby.com   
      
   William Vetter  wrote:   
      
   > > Your solution is one that can really only be applied in cases where the   
   > > author already has an audience.  It's not really viable for a complete   
   > > unknown.   
   > >   
   > Maybe he's talking about Star Trek novels, where there's a media-based   
   > system in place already.   
      
   I thought he was talking about his recent successful kickstarter   
   campaign.   
      
   But tie-in fiction is a point.  There you have a situation where there   
   is an audience for the source material, and you are catapulting off of   
   that.   
      
   Possibly Seawasp's book also had this going for it?   
      
   I would be very reluctant to ascribe his kickstarter's success to the   
   fact that it was for an Oz book, but maybe I'm naive.   
      
      
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