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.
2 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.