FOUR NOVELLAS KICKSTARTER LIVE!!!
Four Kristine Kathryn Rusch Science Fiction Novellas…
Campaign is live!!! Four Science Fiction.
Wow, is there some good sf reading in this campaign. Not only do you get the four novellas with every award, but you can get six of Kris’s other sf novellas. You can also get all (or choice of three) of 18 Diving Series books, and some great Kris short stories as stretch rewards.
Also brand new focused Pop-Up classes as stretch goals. That’s right, brand new.
And two of the best Special Workshops on science fiction we have ever done. Maybe the best ones. Here are descriptions of the two special workshops.
— Workshop #1…Kirk’s Chair and Apples in Space
This is a special three-week workshop on details in space, how to write them, how to make sure a reader understands them. And why there are no seatbelts in science fiction. (There is a very good reason.)
You want to write science fiction, this is the craft and information flow workshop for you.
And there is a short story to write for the third week’s assignments.
— Workshop #2…How to Create Your Own Short Story Market.
With the collapse of the four major digests as viable markets (Asimov’s, Analog, Queen, and Hitchcock’s), there is a real need for this class. This is a special three-week workshop on how to create your own short story markets. (Not talking about starting a magazine, talking about how to create ways to get your stories out to readers and make money from your own short fiction.)
Since Kris can no longer sign a contract with the four major digests because of their non-negotiable contract terms, she has been working on ways to build up her own short story markets and feels she has enough ideas and information to share it here.
And there is a short story to write for the third week’s assignments.
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These special workshops will only be offered through this Kickstarter. Plus you get the four Kristine Kathryn Rusch science fiction novellas in electronic form.
Both three-week classes will be offered starting August 12th and August 26th. Your choice. They will not interfere if you are taking other workshops at the same time.
Great science fiction reading by the top writer working in science fiction, great workshops for writers. Hope you can join us.
10 Comments
Mangala McNamara
Arrgh!
Everything looks good, but money… and time… sigh.
A question about Kickstarters generally… is there any way to combine them with BookBub style campaigns?
I’m trying to combine the things I’m learning from WMG workshops and David Gaughran… He advocates deal sites and free/99cent books as a way to get a lot of readers quickly and build the list of newsletter subscribers.
Which is of interest because I’m not sure if I have enough to confidently do a quick funding on a Kickstarter…
24 books published, but still “starting from zero”… sigh again.
dwsmith
I started completely over with 106 books published. And at the age of 62.
BookBub is a form of promotion, Kickstarter campaigns is a form of promotion, yes, but also sales. They are very different forms.
Kickstarter is its own platform, BookBub uses all the bookstore platforms for the most part. Your buyers or downloaders if you give something away for free on BookBub go to Amazon and other stores. You don’t really get them. Kickstarter, you know who buys your books and if you do your surveys right afterward, you give those buyers a chance to join your mailing list.
Being in a hurry to build a reader list will get you nothing but heartache. Readers and fans join you organically when they like your work.
In fact, being in a hurry in anything in publishing is where disaster lies.
Mangala McNamara
Thanks!
That was what I needed to see!
Emilia
The workshop How to Create Your Own Short Story Market sounds especially good.
I have stories which I’ve sent to the markets I could find and are now sitting in a folder. I’m a bit broke for the moment like a lot of people.
I thought about putting up short stories on Substack or Patreon with the first scene available, end it on a cliffhanger, and offer the rest of the story and others, for a monthly subscription. It would help me get closer to a place where I could put the stories up in stores and also get my short stories out, at least in one way.
dwsmith
Emilia,
I think you might be working under a misconception that it costs money to get your stories out to stores.
Cost is $5 for a piece of art. Otherwise it is free to put into stores.
You could spend a one-time fee on a formatting program to make that easier, and there are free programs to help you do covers. I did my first two hundred covers using PowerPoint which came free with my computer.
Read your story out loud to find copyedit mistakes. No cost there.
So not at all sure what you mean.
Emilia
“So not at all sure what you mean.”
I think it might be mostly nerves and inexperience. I did the WMG book covers class and I did well. It’s mostly formatting the text, uploading and fonts for the cover that makes me nervous.
dwsmith
What is there to be afraid of???In fact, the worst thing that can happen is that you do nothing. If you put your stories out, then great, but not doing that is failing and that is scary. Putting them out is fun.
Emilia
I think it’s my critical voice being sneaky. I took the copyright classes and developed a worry I’d accidentally commit copyright infringement.
dwsmith
Not at all sure how you can do that, unless you are typing pages from other people’s books. Past that, everything is in the public domain and if you are writing your own stuff, not copying, you can’t do that. Yup, you critical voice making up stuff to stop you, that’s for sure.
Emilia
Re copyright infringement: I was thinking fonts (since they need a commercial license) for the book cover. But I can use font library of InDesign and stop fretting about it.