Crowd-Funding Your Creative Projects
Our Kickstarter for our short film based on my YA fantasy series ended today and was a great experience!
Thank you SO much to all our supporters, friends, family, clients, students, backers!
We got to over 800% You rock!
I so look forward to bring this film to you! And the blooper reel! That will be fun too!
There are several ways we can make money from our books.
Crowd funding is just one of them.
(The others: sell on Amazon and the other vendors; sell at book fairs; sell direct via your own online shop; selling the video and audio rights or making the adaptations yourself and selling those.)
What I like about crowd funding is going direct to the fans, supporters, and avid readers.
Even if you don't have a big fanbase, you can raise money from friends, family, colleagues, and even strangers.
This was my second Kickstarter, and I am already planning my next one, either for a nonfiction workbook on world building or for my fifth science fiction mystery, or both. I haven't decided yet.
So if you're considering a crowd funding campaign for your book, here are some things to gather:
short summary (book blurb)
why you wrote the book (connect to your passions, your big Why)
answer why now
answer why crowd funding (what's special about pre-selling the book in this way; how will you make it special and not available anywhere else; lots of authors do fancy hardcover editions via crowd funding)
the comps (complimentary titles)
the tropes of your book
who else is helping you make this book happen (your cover designer, etc.)
My experience is limited, having only done 2 campaigns over 2 years. So, to get more ideas on how crowd funding can work for you, check out these 2 books: (I've learned a lot from them, both the books and the authors.)
Kickstarter for Authors: Empowering Writers to Fund and Flourish by Anthea L. Sharp (direct from the author | vendors)
Get Your Book Selling on Kickstarter: Why You Should Use Kickstarter to Sell More Books and How To Design Your Campaign, Budget For Profitability, Market ... and More by Russell Nohelty and Monica Leonelle (vendors)
BTW, both of these books launched on Kickstarter.
