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@johnsoncm , It’s crowd funding. Before you crowd fund, you’ve got to have your own platform and do your own legwork. 70% of your book funding needs to come from your own resources easily right now.
I know it’s the harsh truth, what @Ricardo Henriquez is saying has merit.
As part of what you are doing in crowd funding is selling yourself and practicing your self promotion skills.
Syndicate backing isn’t a matter, or a metric, of if a book will sell or not. That’s more a matter of community engagement. Authors who are helpful to the community, will be picked up by Syndicates more than anything else.
Which, does increase the chance the book will fund. But you’ve still gotta bring your own readers to the table.
There just simply aren’t enough authors to reliably fund a book from someone else on the website. I could go further into some tactics and some math behind stuff.
One thing to do: Is recruit people who want to support as readers, to join syndicates. Although that’s a hard sell because basically you are paying a lot of money for years before you get a product.
However just so you know: Inkshares Nirvana moment is when they have enough readers on the site where it’s easier to fund, and they are indeed working on that behind the scenes. It’s just going to take years for that kind of traction to build up.
They do, however, come. I’ve got 5 people who are just avid readers that stalk a lot of books on here. I brought them to Inkshares with me. Now imagine if every other author had 1-2.
Eventually...
@Joey Angotti Don’t worry man, I had just taken off like a bat out of hell before I talked to Inkshares. Just, having my contest page shifted to outside the contest takes a little bit on their end from Thad the developer since I don’t want to undo my work so far.
If you want my advice, start now, just... start running right now. The contest is going to cause a ton of stress and it’s super fun, I love them, so I jumped in, but it’s a race and it requires a lot of work.
Here’s the thing: No author has a shot more or less than the others. You see, I took off out of the gates because my friends and family are already registered for the website and I didn’t have to explain it to them. Eventually, I’ll hit the same wall as everyone else. Because you can only hit your local strangers up for crowd funding: once. (ask anyone whose tried two campaigns)
I gladly willing to coach and help any new author trying to hit the ground game on the best way to get crowd funding going. This contest is 90 days long sure, but don’t way so long.
As for Seventh Age: Dystopia, I hope you enjoy the concept and I’ll pick up campaign mode on that later on outside of the contest. :)