As the Kickstarter winds down I’ve been calculating likely cash flow for the rest of the year, on the assumption that it never hurts to do contingency planning. Obviously, at this point TINSEL RAIN gets published as soon as I can get it back from the editor, and the cover designed. No worries there. But where does the Glorious Moeticae Empire go next?
Here are my options:
- Publish nothing else this year. Advantage: that speeds up the process by which I get GHOSTS ON AN ALIEN WIND ready for next year (probably 2Q 2023 in that scenario, which is great). Disadvantage: I publish nothing else this year.
- Chapbook! Advantage: they’re cheap to produce, so I can put at least one together this year. Disadvantages: it’s good that they’re cheap, because they don’t sell all that well. It’d also push GHOSTS ON AN ALIEN WIND back a couple of months.
- Get the RPG finally ready for commercial sale. Advantage: It vexes me. It vexes me, and I shall have it. Disadvantage: See ‘Advantage.’
- …Something else. Danged if I know what, though.
Thoughts?
I suggest working on Ghosts and playing with the RPG.
This lets Vargas marinate in your hindbrain, gets Ghosts moving forward, and scratches your vexation.
Mew
p.s. “play” is literal here – find a way to do a play-test.
Hold off on the RPG until you get at least three more books.
Adventuring in Discworld would have looked completely different if it were just based on the initial Rincewind trilogy.
I’m sure I’ve said it before, but a tasteful photo collection of black and white softcore fantasy erotica would sell like hotcakes.