Oh, No, I Got a Question… Yup, got a question after yesterday’s Kickstarter Friday post and this question was pretty simple with no real simple answer. Question: “Why do I not promote fiction Kickstarters focused mainly on pretty books?” My base response is that no one reads really beautiful, pretty books with all the bells and art and colored edges and white ink on black paper and so on and so on. When done by a real designer with fantastic illustrations, these books can be works of art. And not one person will ever read the book. It will remain as a collector’s item gathering dust or sold to other…

I Was Sent Two Campaigns Today… The owners of the campaigns wanted me to look at putting them here on my blog to promote. A new feature I am doing weekly, but I was clear I would not put up any campaign that I did not support or like. My blog, my rules. Both campaigns I got today were first campaigns and both were ambitious for single books, which is good, unless you try to cram in everything including the kitchen sink. Then information flow in the story is a major problem for backers. Both had that problem. Both had art that any 6th grader could have done better. And…