![]() ![]() With IndieGoGo you can have flexible funding and keep what you raise instead of losing everything, so that was appealing. I asked on Twitter a few times over the past year if Kickstarter or IndieGoGo would be better for raising production costs for a book. Perhaps, in a request like this where living expenses for three months were needed, something like Patreon or IndieGoGo would have been better than Kickstarter. And then, maybe, this could have been me? Who knows. But if things had gone differently, I might have been Kickstarting Masquerade (book 3) right about now. I have considered Kickstarter, and done a lot of research on it over the last few months, but since some stuff is up in the air, I haven’t gone live. My books Pantomime & Shadowplay came out, but my trilogy was cancelled, and then the imprint folded a few months later. I don’t know Stacey Jay, but man, I just want to give her a hug. I think this story especially hit home for me. Hearty debate ensued on Twitter – was this right? Is it fair? Was it bullying? When crowdfunding, is it appropriate to ask for more than simply production costs? As hybrid publishing is becoming more common, it all ended up coming to a head here-unfortunately for Stacey Jay. Stacey Jay ended up taking down the Kickstarter, and writing a blog post saying she’s stepping back from writing as Stacey Jay for a while. I figured she was saying if it doesn’t fund, she’ll focus on things that will let her provide for her family). She writes under three names and is supporting a family. Some thought it had a whiff of emotional blackmail about it. Stacey Jay came under criticism, both for asking for an advance, essentially, and for the line saying if it didn’t fund she’d instead focus on re-publishing her backlist. Yet Kickstarter is more about the end product, some argue. She created a Kickstarter, detailing her goals: $3,500 for fees, cover, and editing, and around $7,000 to make it a financially viable option for her because it’d be enough to cover basic bills and give her 3 uninterrupted months to write the novel and get it to readers sooner. E-book sales are still a smaller slice of the pie than print sales, meaning without bookstore and library presence, it can be hard to gauge interest. Yet self-publishing in YA can be a tricky beast. But the sales were still high enough to investigate self-publishing. Hers is a familiar tale: due to low sales of the first, her publisher declined to pick up the sequel. ![]() Very recently, YA author Stacey Jay launched a Kickstarter to fund her sequel to her first novel, Princess of Thorns. I said hell yes, and told her I’d add my thoughts, too, at the bottom of the post. Ah, but YA author Laura Lam - a wonderful author fresh from the fallout with Strange Chemistry - also had thoughts and asked if she could write up a guest post at the blog. I have thoughts on this whole Kickstarter kerfuffle yesterday, and my ranty-pants are securely fastened upon my kicking legs. ![]()
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