I am almost ready to send the Kickstarter in for review (I still have to do a video). I doubt there’s going to be any problems, but that’s when you check harder, right? In the spirit of that: if you want to take a look at said Kickstarter and give me some feedback, feel free to let me know in comments and I’ll email you a link.
Also: if you want to be a beta reader for the stories, again, let me know in comments.
Yay! It’ll take me a couple of days to finish it, though. Aside from everything else, I have to film a video, and that’s always fun. I’m tentatively trying to have the Kickstarter up and running by the end of the month. Once I have an idea of my funding situation, I can start with the beta reading and whatnot. So… keep watching the skies!
In the meantime… buy my books?
#commissionearned
I start putting it together next week. It’s probably going to be the next volume of Tales From The Fermi Resolution: I have plenty of stories for it, and it will be significantly cheaper to put together. That is, unfortunately, a consideration these days.
Like I said: keep watching the skies!
It’s not the easiest answer. The advantages for doing BANSHEE BEACH: it’s a novel. I got more backers for my novel Kickstarters than for the others. There may be more of a market, downstream. Disadvantages: the novel is not finished*, and I need a much larger goal than usual.
Advantages for TALES FROM THE FERMI RESOLUTION 2: the stories are written. I can advertise BANSHEE BEACH with it by taking the self-contained story in that book and putting it in the collection. I don’t need cover art (I already have it, for another project) or a map. It’s cheaper to finance. The goal is smaller. Disadvantages: doing that pushes BANSHEE BEACH to 2025, probably.
It’s a balancing act, really. Thoughts?
Moe Lane
*The goal is to get the manuscript much closer to ready by the end of the year, and possibly in draft form by the end of January.
Note the name: Claudia Christian’s Musketeers vs. Cthulhu RPG. When it comes to marketing, Nightfall Games knows what they’re about. I am not so much part of the target demographic as I am contentedly living in its bullseye. Oh, and I asked, so that you don’t have to: it’s ethically sourced. They’re printing it in either England, or Lithuania.
Moe Lane
PS: The comic book series that the Kickstarter is based off of is apparently upcoming. I have no more information about it, but would love to hear some.
If it takes me more than thirty seconds to figure out what the hell who you are and what your Kickstarter is about, you’ve failed to communicate. I know, I know: when it comes to TTRPGs, it doesn’t matter because those always fund* anyway. But you should still quickly get to the point. It’s good for you!
Moe Lane
PS: No, I’m not saying what the project was, because I already forgot its name, didn’t save the page, and don’t feel like looking it up. Take that as a testament to how bad the video was.
*This is actually not quite true.
Greg Stolze’s latest. I DREAM OF INSOMNIA has several stories set in the Unknown Armies RPG setting, which honestly would have gotten me to sign on anyway. I like Greg’s stuff a lot generally, so this wasn’t a hard backing for me. Check it out!
Moe Lane
It’s called I DREAM OF INSOMNIA, and is a “collection of Greg Stolze’s recent horror, crime and science fiction short stories.” I’ve like Greg’s stuff ever since UNKNOWN ARMIES, which at this rate is a game I might have time to finally get to play in the afterlife. Such is life, and check out the Kickstarter when it officially drops.
It’s not entirely a great time, honestly. To start off with, I’m going to have to change the focus from doing another volume of TALES FROM THE FERMI RESOLUTION to funding BANSHEE BEACH (the next Tom Vargas novel). The RPG project is going to get shelved entirely for another year, and I’m probably going to end up squeezing as much as I can to pay for an audiobook for TINSEL RAIN*. This has not been a great time to sell books, economically speaking. Which also means that I’ll have more expenses, including things like covers and map updates. I’m going to be reaching out to people and finding out what their new rates are. Yay inflation! …Can’t be helped, though. People need to eat.
All of which means that my Kickstarter goal this time is going to be higher. A good bit higher, likely. I’m not really thrilled about that, but what can you do? …Except sell more books, I guess. Go ahead and click the links!
Moe Lane
*I think that there’s a market there, but the way we did the FROZEN DREAMS audiobook was ultimately self-defeating from a marketing standpoint. Ach, well, live and learn.
#commissionearned
If you backed the SECRET WORLD LEGENDS Kickstarter, check your email. You should have a gotten a link to the raw text. There’s no art, no layout, just words; I’ve been flipping through, and it looks pretty good so far. I’m wondering if they’re going to be statting the PC that I paid to have show up in the game*; it’d be interesting to see what her level actually is. Personally, I’ve always felt that I play one of the single most okay characters in that MMO, but it’d be nice to have that confirmed.
Moe Lane
*I’ve seen the artwork for Morganey (my aforementioned character), but I can’t wave it around yet. Star Anvil Studios asked me not to until they’re closer to production.
