Tag: Kickstarter

Kickstarter for Readers

~ Kathryn Fletcher

What is Kickstarter? What's the process for ordering a book from Kickstarter? For a long time, I thought Kickstarter was just for inventors with wacky ideas.  Kickstarter has changed a lot for the better in recent years. What I didn’t know until about a year ago was, they have a publishing category! There are hundreds of authors on the site now. Investors (you) are enabling authors to get their businesses up and running with high quality editors, professional covers, developmental editors, and professional proofreaders. All that costs a ton of money! Most authors just starting out don’t have $2,000-8,000 to pay all those professionals. Because of Kickstarter and people like you, who are willing to invest in authors, the whole indy publishing industry is able to raise the bar on creating quality stories!

Why are Authors Selling Direct and Using Kickstarter?

~ Kathryn Fletcher

Let me tell you a little about my experience, first. Some of my writing club students at school wanted to know how to publish a book after they wrote the manuscript. That is not a mere 10 minute conversation. I had been blogging about writing and publishing for some time and had a bunch of posts that were not in any particular order. I couldn’t think of any one book that went over all the steps and decisions they’d be facing when they went to publish, well not any that were not a million pages. So I cobbled together my blog posts and expand them to put in a small easily accessible book for new writers to get started on the publishing journey. From Rough Draft to Published was born May 20th 2020! Since then I’ve made a few hundred dollars in royalties, yet it didn’t cover the expense I put into the book. This was practice and learning book. My fiction is my real passion. I'm about to dive into selling my first fiction book as soon as I finish the edits. I learned that it is hard to be profitable on bookseller platforms, if you don't have a massive backlist of books to sell….(click for more)