Last night, I had the pleasure of appearing as a guest on HuffPost Live for the first time with host Jacob Soboroff, along with Bill Clerico (of WePay), Eric Mack (of Crowdsourcing.org), and film editor and Kickstarter user Jon Mercer. We had a great discussion centering mostly on how people view and use Kickstarter and whether or not there are going …
Huff Post Live Tonight!
Thanks to a recommendation from Bryan Thomas Schmidt (check out his Kickstarter for his Beyond the Sun anthology), I’m going to be a guest on Huffington Post Live tonight at 9 PM Eastern. I’ll be chatting with Jacob Soboroff and his other guests about Kickstarter and the challenges crowdfunding presents for both creators and backers. Stop on by and join us …
My Books on Drive Thru Fiction’s Bestsellers List
I’m happy to report that the three books in the Matt Forbeck’s Brave New World trilogy are all in the Top 10 Products on Drive Thru Fiction and have been for a while. At the moment, they occupy the #5, #7, and #10 spots. On top of that, I have stories in Don’t Read This Book and Tales of the Far West, which …
12 for ’12 for Sale at Robot Trading Company
Part of my plan for 12 for ’12 isn’t just to write a dozen books in a year. It’s to be able to produce and sell them forever after that. As the first step in that, I’ve gotten the Brave New World trilogy out the door and placed it with as many different decent online retailers as will have it. You …
The Monster Academy Kickstarter Is OVER!
Wow. I didn’t know if it would happen, but we had a great surge of backers and bumpers at the end of the Monster Academy Kickstarter, and we knocked it clear past all of the stretch goals I set up. This means: Every backer at $50+ gets the BNW ebooks for free. Every backer at $75+ gets the Shotguns & Sorcery ebooks for free. …
Five Hours Left! Stretch Goals Lowered!
It struck me that every time I’ve run one of the 12 for ’12 Kickstarters, I’ve lowered the stretch goals on the last day. Although we seem like we’re cooking along here with the Monster Academy drive, I’d like to maintain that tradition. I’m pretty sure we’ll hit the $15k stretch goal, as we’re less than $100 $30(!) away from that now. That will …
Last Day!
Last night, just before I went to bed, the Monster Academy Kickstarter drive cracked the $14k barrier. This unlocked Stretch Goal #2, which means that all backers at $75 or more now get a total of nine ebooks (the Brave New World trilogy, the Shotguns & Sorcery trilogy, and signed copies of the Monster Academy trilogy), plus a softcover copy of the Monster Academy omnibus. That’s a pretty stunning deal. Thanks to …
Unlocking Stretch Goals = Great Deals
The Monster Academy drive is cooking along at a good speed. We smashed through the $12k stretch goal yesterday, and there’s an excellent chance we’ll unlock the $14k stretch goal soon. This makes the higher-level pledges look even more attractive. It works like this. Right now (since we unlocked the 1st stretch goal), if you pledge $50, you get a hardcover copy of …
12 for ’12: Kickstarting Advances
Since we’re just about to wrap up the last 12 for ’12 drive this Sunday, I thought it would be a good idea to explain some of my thinking behind it when I started out, and why I wound up using Kickstarter for it. Last year, I had this insane idea to write a dozen novels this year, a plan I …
56 Hours to Go!
Earlier today, the Monster Academy Kickstarter cracked through the first stretch goal at $12,000! Thanks to Kent Wayson for knocking it over. We also broke 300 backers! The drive comes to an end at midnight Eastern time on Sunday, September 16. As I write this, that means we only have 56 hours to go, maybe less by the time you read this. …