From: mbottorff@lshelby.com
Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor) wrote:
> > I had one published author post a five star review, and it got me about
> > 35 investors buying in at roughly 15$ per investment. That's only a
> > little over 500$.
> >
>
> That's very good response for a review.
Trilogies have their advantages. :)
> I set a goal of $5k and ended up well over 7K, past my first stretch
> goal. Yes, I'm a bigger author than you, but I also don't like promoing
> myself. I still found that Kickstarter made it fairly easy, and they're
> a really nicely done platform for this.
It's very grafifying that you seem to think that because you were
successful, I, too, would be successful. But I'm not sold on the
theory.
I head over to LibraryThing and see that you have over 700 of your books
catalogued there as compared to 50 of mine, and I think, yeah, $7K to
$500. That's what I thought.
But I agree with your assessment of kickstarter. I just think that
putting up a campaign right now would be premature.
Kickstarter isn't just a good place to get funding, it's also an
excellient publicity vehicle in and of itself... If the campaign is
successful it would do me a world of good. But if I fail: there is such
a thing as poor publicity.
So I want to wait until the odds are more in my favor.
It's not like I'm putting out unedited books in the meantime. I do have
an editor already... he just happens to be my husband, that's all.
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