My project will probably fail, but I've learned a lot
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2019 2:20 pm
So the Kickstarter for my YA superhero novel, Supra/normal, has less than 27 hours left and is only 43% funded: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/64 ... ref=3oxxbr
It probably won't get there, but this has been a valuable learning experience. Aside from family and friends, most of the backers have been people I interacted with in the writing community on Twitter. If I could just reach more of my almost 2k followers there, or gain significantly more followers, I think I would have made it.
I also think my $1000 goal was a little too ambitious. After the project ends I'm going to restart it with a lower goal and possibly a longer duration and I think I'll blow past that as long as I can get the same backers to recommit. Even getting close to 50% of my goal is pretty good for someone who didn't know anything about marketing or crowdfunding just a few months ago. So hopefully I can say I learned from this failure and will still get my novel published one day!
It probably won't get there, but this has been a valuable learning experience. Aside from family and friends, most of the backers have been people I interacted with in the writing community on Twitter. If I could just reach more of my almost 2k followers there, or gain significantly more followers, I think I would have made it.
I also think my $1000 goal was a little too ambitious. After the project ends I'm going to restart it with a lower goal and possibly a longer duration and I think I'll blow past that as long as I can get the same backers to recommit. Even getting close to 50% of my goal is pretty good for someone who didn't know anything about marketing or crowdfunding just a few months ago. So hopefully I can say I learned from this failure and will still get my novel published one day!