Comments on: Crowd funding and the Discerning Author https://www.theeternalscribe.com/crowd-funding-and-the-discerning-author/ Everyone Deserves a Happy Ending Sun, 01 Jan 2023 21:32:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: forrestdl@gmail.com https://www.theeternalscribe.com/crowd-funding-and-the-discerning-author/#comment-3 Thu, 06 Jun 2013 23:49:52 +0000 http://theeternalscribe.com/?p=110#comment-3 In reply to Ripley Patton.

Thank you, Ripley. I’d forgotten (or did I even know) that you used KS for your book. Good luck with your current project. I’m going to see about promoting your project. Geez, the automatically generated messages for tweets and facebook are pretty pitiful. And they don’t give you the option of posting to my fan page, which has about ten (or more) times as many people.

On that note, I took a look at the sharing options for indiegogo vs. KS.

Kickstarter:
Share (facebook)
Tweet
Embed
Remind Me

Indiegogo:
Like (facebook)
Tweet (Better message, in my opinion)
Google +
Embed
Email
Share campaign
Follow (I think similar to remind me but not sure…)

]]> By: Ripley Patton https://www.theeternalscribe.com/crowd-funding-and-the-discerning-author/#comment-2 Thu, 06 Jun 2013 23:37:53 +0000 http://theeternalscribe.com/?p=110#comment-2 Great article and questions. I am currently running my second KS project to fund the publication of the second book in my YA Paranormal Thriller Series. I funded the first book last year with a $2500 project and made 110% of that. I’m already 39% funded on the second project in 6 days, so I’m projecting I’ll make it with some to spare. For me, this is my Indie Advance, and allows me to produce a book on par in quality with traditionally published books, something I just could not currently do out of my own pocket. Also, it allows me to offer pre-ordering of my book. Something I cannot do as an Indie Author through Amazon. But don’t go into it thinking that raising money this way isn’t a whole lot of hard work, because it is. In that way, I think it is also a testing ground (or maybe boot camp) to see if you really have what it takes to do the constant self-promotion and push it takes to be an successful Indie author.

Here’s my current project if anyone wants to check ti out (and back it:) My 17-year-old son produced my video, and he’s pretty proud of it:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/553002528/ghost-hold-book-two-of-the-pss-chronicles

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