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FOR WRITERS: Writing Serials

May 1, 2021 by scott

FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Scott: Amazon just launched Vella, a new way to monetize serial fiction. There’s Radish, Patron, and a number of options, including your own blog. Do you serialize? How? How has it worked for you? Writers: This is a writer chat – you are welcome to share your own book/link, as long as it fits the chat, but please do so as part of a discussion about the topic. Join the chat: FB: http://bit.ly/1MvPABVMeWe: http://bit.ly/2mjg8lf

Non Traditional Financing for Authors

April 21, 2016 by scott

Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Dale Lowry: [related to an earlier post about a gay fairy tale children’s book on Kickstarter] So my question is, are Kickstarters a more profitable way to market books than going through traditional publishing or straightforward self-publishing? And is it necessary for the author to already have a lot of social media or other connections I’m quite surprised at the amount of money some authors been able to raise when there’s not even a sample passage on the Kickstarter page (at least that I can see), especially given that gay fairytales aren’t exactly a … Read more