Kickstarter Friday
Some Fiction Campaigns That Are Worth Studying and Backing…
I do this every Friday when I have a few campaigns I think are worth putting here. I will not say much negative about a campaign. If there is too much or it is going to fail, I won’t post it here.
And for those wondering where I get off judging Kickstarter Campaigns by fiction writers, I have now done 55 of them, every one funded and made money. My first campaign was in the very early days of Kickstarter. But if yoyu are going to study campaigns that I have done, study the last year or so. I am continuing to learn.
And like some people browse and waste time on Facebook, I browse and waste time looking at campaigns on Kickstarter.
So onward with this week’s selections.
Boys & Their Monsters: Science Fiction Stories by Matt MG Herron.
This is a very clean, very simple science fiction campaign for a dystopian collection of stories. It has not funded yet because he asked too much for a first collection with nothing else with it. But still a clean and simple campaign and if you like this kind of sf, back it and help him fund. He should make it but without Kickstarter helping because he did not fund quickly, it will be a push.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mgherron/boys-and-their-monsters-science-fiction-stories
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Unidentified Funny Objects 10 by Alex Shavartsman.
This is a bigger project by someone who has done a bunch of these, some successful. It is an anthology project (and no Kris and I were not invited) but if it does fund, it has an open submission phase after it funds. Friends of mine who are known for writing humor in sf like Esther Friesner, Alan Dean Foster, and Jody Lyn Nye are in this.
It has a $10,000 goal and is not halfway yet, but has 26 days to go and if I remember his past projects, he is always close. I just backed it.
A decent campaign with good art.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ufopublishing/unidentified-funny-objects-10
The Things We Can Change: A Time Travel Thriller by Karyne Norton.
This campaign was not sent to me. I found it in my browsing.
Karyne does a ton of things right in this campaign. Her ask was low so Kickstarter has been helping her because she funded really quickly. Her art is good and her story clear and things are explained in the correct order so it is good to read. I think some of her rewards are too low, so I worry she will not make much money, but this is her third or fourth and she will learn that.
No idea about her storytelling ability. She calls it a thriller, so who knows since that is the hardest genre to do correctly, but if you like sf and time travel, might be worth grabbing this one.
She also made a mistake doing physical stretch rewards and more than likely will end up with 250 backers. Even stickers as she has done cost money to do and then she has to mail each one and get physical addresses for all her ebook backers and a lot of backers do not like that.
So easily that mistake will cost her some good will with backers and about $250 extra costs and a bunch of time if she had just kept her stretch goals electronic. Oops. But overall a good one to study and maybe back to see how she deals with everything.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/karynenorton/the-things-we-can-change
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