From: seawasp@sgeinc.invalid.com   
      
   On 8/18/14 10:11 AM, Nicky wrote:   
   > On Monday, August 18, 2014 1:00:53 PM UTC+1, Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor) wrote:   
   >> On 8/17/14 6:23 PM, Nicky wrote:   
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   >> 	_Polychrome_ was seen by MANY publishers, several of whom thought hard   
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   >> on taking it but ultimately decided not to. So I decided to publish it   
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   >> myself; a Kickstarter succeeded very well (even got to the "Bob Eggleton   
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   >> Cover" stretch goal which was totally awesome) and so it's being   
   >>   
   >> self-pubbed in December (I just had to push it back a month to give Bob   
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   >> more time to work on it).   
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   >> Not sure how Kickstarter works - how did you go about it? Presumably it   
   only works if you already have a potential market?   
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   	Well, it sure can't HURT to have a known market, but what you need is a   
   known *network* of supporters who will spread the news far enough to   
   drag in other people willing to kick in five bucks apiece. Sure, if   
   they're all readers to begin with that's great, but lots of friends and   
   family and professional acquaintances who simply like you will do just fine.   
      
   	As to how, well, Kickstarter itself has a very good description  that I   
   followed, but in basics? You'll need to get a Kickstarter account and   
   then choose to start a project. They'll instruct you on how to get an   
   Amazon account and a bank account you can link to it to become an Amazon   
   vendor-type (don't remember the technical name). This is very easy to   
   do, as I was intimidated by the idea and then found that despite   
   misgivings everything worked exactly the way they described and didn't   
   demand much of me). You'll have various pieces of the project to work   
   out -- the target amount of money you want to raise for the project, the   
   duration (usually a month) over which you try to raise the money, the   
   reward levels, and so on.   
      
   	It's invaluable to look at someone else's successfully funded project   
   in an area closely related to yours and see how they did it. I focused   
   mostly on Lawrence Watt-Evans' successful kickstarter and used his stuff   
   as a template, and overall mine worked well. I know some things I'd do a   
   little differently now, but it was a successful project.   
      
      
      
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