One of the first things you need to do if you’re running a Kickstarter is figure out what you want to produce and how much it’s going to cost. For my 12 for ’12 Kickstarters, this turned out to be pretty simple. The things you need to think about include: Production of the files for both the ebook edition and …
Happy Birthday to My Quadruplets!
Eleven years ago today, my wife Ann gave birth to four of the most wonderful people in my life: Pat, Nick, Ken, and Helen Forbeck. The quadruplets were born within two minutes of each other, eleven weeks premature. They weighed between 2.75 and 1.5 pounds. Ann spent sixteen weeks on full or partial bedrest at home and another ten in …
Dangerous Games: How to Play Books on Sale
The print edition of Dangerous Games: How to Play – the first in my trilogy of thrillers set at Gen Con, the largest tabletop gaming convention in America – just went on sale to the public for the first time ever. It’s available in both hardcover ($15) and softcover ($10) through DriveThruFiction.com. One of the great things about selling the printed book through …
Dangerous Games: How to Play in Print on Tuesday!
If you like your books on paper, here’s something good for you. I have the print proofs for Dangerous Games: How to Play in hand, as you can see in the photo above. I’ll make them available for sale on Tuesday, June 4, 2013, over at DriveThruFiction.com. The paperbacks will be $10, and the hardcovers will be $15. Both come bundled …
Kickstarter: Gauging Your Novel’s Chances
I’ve seen a lot of Kickstarters succeed, but even more of them fail. One of the reasons is that the people running them don’t bother to do basic research about the category in which their project belongs. If you’ve never run a project before and you set a goal that would require you to break all records in that category, …
Top Ten Tabletop Kickstarters: How They Do It
Over at ICv2, they’ve posted a list of the top ten tabletop gaming Kickstarters of all time (um, four years now, in Kickstarter terms). They don’t offer up much in the way of analysis there, though, other than to say “tabletop game projects are among Kickstarter’s most successful categories, with five projects at over $1 million, and three over $2 million.” …
Kickstarter Tally
With the announcement earlier today that I may (and hope to) write an Exalted novel as a stretch goal for the Exalted Third Edition Kickstarter, it’s time to tally up the list that shows I’m becoming the unofficial king of stretch goals (a title I never aspired to as a child). So far, the following full dozen Kickstarter drives have successfully added …
Kindle Worlds = Worlds Burning?
Amazon just announced a new program called Kindle Worlds that allows writers to sign up for no-mess licenses for established fictional worlds to self-publish stories in them. In essence, they’re letting fan-fic writers (amateurs who write such stories for fun) make money off their work. As a writer who’s made a good chunk of money writing official stories for such …
New Novel on Kickstarter: Exalted!
My pals at the Onyx Path have had a hell of a run with their Kickstarters. They’re a bunch of ex-White Wolf employees who’ve licensed the White Wolf tabletop roleplaying games from their current owner – CCP of EVE Online fame – and are busy producing new editions of classic games like Vampire: The Masquerade and Werewolf: The Apocalypse. For their current Kickstarter …
My Gen Con Events – So Far
The event registration for Gen Con 2013 at noon Eastern Time today. I don’t have all of my events slated yet – the Industry Insider Guest of Honor schedule isn’t quite ready – but my Writer’s Symposium events are set. If you’d like to see me at the show, be sure to check out: Thursday, 5 PM: Reading: Matt Forbeck …