I’m sure many of you will be familiar with Order of the Stick, a long-running web comic about the adventures of a stick-figure D&D group. OOTS has just completed a Kickstarter project to reprint the series. The Kickstarter’s goal was about $58,000. It closed a couple of hours ago at $1,254,120. Yes, that says one point two five million dollars. I think this is a good time to take the opportunity to mention that if Teh Intarwebs would like to pay me a million dollars, I will happily write Teh…
Tag: crowdfunding
Crowdfunding: What’s Up Next
I’ve ended up with some FAQs about what I’ll be doing next for crowdfunding/Kickstarter, so I thought to close this series out with a poll, which I’ll post shortly (ETA: I have posted it! It is here! You should be able to vote by logging in with FB, G+ or OpenID, I think, so if you don’t have an LJ account, fret not!), and a tackling of the FAQs. Surprisingly (or, y’know, not), the most common question is: So will you be doing this again? Um, yes. Yes I will.…
speaking of crowdfunding…
I’m up for a crowdfunding award this year, for “No Dominion”. My lovely patrons said it was okay for me to post one of the short stories I’ve written as proof of fiction committed for “No Dominion”, so “Forgotten But By A Few is” available here, and the first couple chapters of URBAN SHAMAN, from Gary’s point of view, are here. The voting page is located here. I’ve been nominated a few years running now, and, well, I’d really kinda like to win, actually, so if the spirit moves you,…
Crowdfunding: Commentary from the Crowd
I’ve got at least one more crowdfunding post to do, I think–one that’s more about future projects for me rather than probably being wildly useful in general–but this one is comments from the crowd: things people have said/asked in comments on these posts. I’m not attributing them, but they will perhaps give you (the general “you”) an idea of what other things to think about when launching a crowdfund campaign. I will add more questions and commentary to this if people have more to say. :) On excitement/saturation levels, if…
On Running Crowdfunding: Boosting the Signal
Okay, I lied. I said I thought probably figuring out the reward tiers is the hardest thing about crowdfunding, but then I thought about advertising it and that’s much worse. There are people who are really good at shameless self promotion, and getting themselves out there where everybody in the whole world knows about the projects they’re working on. Despite No Dominion’s success, I’m not actually one of those. What I did learn doing it, though, is that either I have the most tolerant fans, readers, followers and friends on…