Kickstarters Worth Looking At This Friday…
I Hope To Do This Regularly…
If you are starting a FICTION publishing Kickstarter, first off you can send it to me to check for you ahead of time. I will be glad to.
Or you can send it to me after you launch. If I think it works and it is FICTION, I will list it here. I will say mostly only positive things about any campaign I list. If I think one does not work or has too many problems to list, I won’t even mention it.
So send me your campaign by email with the subject line Kickstarter Campaign with a link. And if I don’t mention it, please don’t be angry with me. Just trying to help out the writers who have leaned how to do Kickstarter fiction campaigns right.
I will try to do this every Friday. I will only list active campaigns.
I Have My Own System of Size of Campaigns… So to be clear, here is how I think about them.
- — Small… Intended to be under $10,000 by the very nature of the campaign. Sometimes they go higher but that is a fight against their own structure and numbers of backers and types of rewards. These usually have an ask at $500 or under to fund quickly to get Kickstarter promotion to help out. A lot of writers do very well doing six or more of these a year and keeping costs very low. (A $4,000 campaign can net you $3,500 if done right and get your books out there and do great promotion.)
- — Medium… Campaigns designed to go between $10,000 and $30,000. This is just a range but their awards and design are pretty clear. This is also for authors who have built up a pretty good following. If careful, a $20,000 campaign can net an author over $17,000.
- — Large … Campaigns designed to go to $50,000 and up. This is a dangerous area because of costs of products and I have seen many campaigns in this range in publishing push for more and more backers and lose money overall.
So this week a few campaigns were sent to med that I accepted.
The Pursuit of Shadows #1-3 – fantasy/horror book series… Edward Kane
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/nyaliss/the-pursuit-of-shadows-exclusive-slipcase-edition
This is basically a small campaign aimed at horror readers. Horror is the smallest genre only barely above literary, so this is a hard push. Edward set his ask very high, so going to be a shove to make his ask without Kickstarter support helping out, but he has time.
This is worth a look to see if there are things he is doing that might interest you. Or back it if you like the books.
House of Masks: A Gothic Space Opera… DeAnna Knippling
This is DeAnna’s first campaign and it is stunningly well done. It is a small campaign with great art and awards and such. It funded faily quickly and has a bunch of time left to go higher. This is one to study and support.
And DeAnna did maybe the best book sales copy I have read. No passive voice, no plot, just telling the reader exactly what the book is about. Just makes me really happy that someone does this right. Here is what she said…
House of Masks is a 500+-page standalone space opera with modern Gothic sensibilities, the epic scope of a Dickens novel, and a slow build to chaos.
Ebook, paperback, hardback, and signed editions available.
The past never remains buried. Not even on another planet.
Wow, simply wow. Sales copy done perfectly. So when you ask me what I mean when I say “Tell the reader what the book is about, not the plot.” You now understand what I mean.
A Roommate for Christmas… Plus Name the Characters… Aryn Van Dyke…
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/arynvandyke/a-roommate-for-christmas
Another first small campaign and done perfectly. (except no paperback edition) Really cute, a perfect Lifetime Christmas Holiday story.
And the really fun part she is selling all her character’s names… Some of it is working, some not so much because her price for the names is too high, but wonderful idea and worth looking at folks. And only a few hours left to go. So take a look quickly if interested in getting this book.
She got a Project We Love from Kickstarter and is part of their summer romance promotion and did not add either to her header… Oops…
Worth looking at quickly.