Thank YOU! Kickstarter Anthology WAS FUNDED! Lessons Learned
Posted on: December 15, 2019
The Witches, Warriors and Wise Women fantasy anthology was successfully funded! Thank you for sharing the link and/or contributing. I was approached late into the project and I thought our fundraising goal was pretty high ($3400) for the time period we had (about 21 days). Like most people, I don’t particularly like asking others for help related to my writing projects (trying to be better about that). So, even though I completely believed in the project (and don’t mind helping others), I had to work up the courage to ask my networks to share and/or contribute and to ask often. I posted the link in almost every online community I’m in. And, I saw every writer connected to the project doing the same thing. Jason Graves, the editor, led the way in posting persistently pleasant updates about the status of the Kickstarter project and asking for support. It was truly a group effort.
A lesson I needed to be reminded of is that people LOVE to help and the writing community is overall a supportive one. Also, It takes less than 10 minutes to craft a thoughtful ask and less than a few minutes to post. Another lesson: readers are interested in reading work that excites them and are willing to invest in new projects.
We were funded above what we asked, too!
Another perk of asking is that I now have my first ‘Tuckerization’. Someone pledged at a level that they will now be written into my story. How fun!
The anthology will be available in June.
Now that the anthology is funded, I can get back to writing. My story is due at the end of the month!
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