Crowdfunding Your Book

 I am not there for sure. I have a stack of notebooks from 2010 on the table in front of me. They need removed before I can start on typing up any books. However, maybe this will help you.

Back in May 2022 Writer's Digest published How to Crowdfund Your Book. Here are my notes:

Set clear, specific, and realistic goals: Let your funders know what success looks like for you and exactly what their dollars cover.

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Identify your core group of funders: I started with my closest friends and family,

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Focus on the benefits to those funders: Your main pitch to donors should explain what they get out of this crowdfunding campaign based on tiered donation levels.

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Fulfill your fundraising pledges: Follow up with each donor individually, rewarding and thanking them with personal notes that also ask them to leave a short, honest review and promote your book to others on social media.

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Connect your book to a cause: If you write nonfiction, that should be relatively easy. But even fiction authors—especially those who focus on crime novels—can tie their stories to social justice issues that readers care about.

Seems to me, a guy with a biography like mine will not find fertile fields in traditional publishing. Others also have been kept out of traditional publishing, self-publishing could be a way around those barriers. 

sch 10/17/22