From: mbottorff@lshelby.com
Remus Shepherd wrote:
> I'm trying to decide what the criteria is for 'unknown'. I'm thinking
> of classifying fame in logarithmic stages, like the Kardeshev scale:
>
> Author Fame 1: Your significant other sometimes reads your work. (1)
> Author Fame 2: You have a few friends who have read your work. (~10)
> Author Fame 3: You have been to writing workshops and other venues and have
> made a few dozen connections to people who have read (or have offered to
read)
> your work. (~100)
> I think someone could have a successful Kickstarter campaign just from
> level 2 or higher. It depends on how much money you are asking for, who
> your friends are, and how good you are at advertising yourself.
I think I'm about a 3, I've sold my requisite 3 pieces at pro rates, but
two were in the wrong genres, and the other one was for a publication
marketed to the educational market in Canada... not a great venue for
getting one's name out to the general sf buying public.
And I am very, very, very awful at advertising myself.
> As a counter example, I'm solidly in Fame 4 and I don't think I could get
> a Kickstarter off the ground because I'm an irascible asshole. Even those
> in Fame 5 are struggling to get a larger audience and may not be well-known
> enough to use their fans as a resource. We don't all have Sea Wasp's
> silver-tongued charm. :) But some authors *do*.
>
> Hmn. Maybe what we need is a way to quantify social/marketing skill.
>
> Anyway, my point is that almost nobody is completely 'unknown'. It
> depends on your personal skills and situation.
I can't argue this point. :)
> Which means that any advice
> anyone gives might be useless to others.
True.
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