This is the eighth and last in a series of blog posts about marketing for fiction authors without using social media. Kickstarter: This is going to be weird that I put this here, but when I was looking through the worksheet “First Steps to Podcasting” in Writing Off Social—the Course Lite , a lot of the questions could apply when you’re setting up your Kickstarter. You have to craft your Kickstarter to appeal to the readers who will find your campaign, and the amount of time to set up a Kickstarter is probably on par with the amount of time to set up a podcast. The major difference is that with podcasting, you’re in it for a longer period of time, while Kickstarter is usually less than a month, although authors will often do a Kickstarter for every new book. I took Thomas Umstattd’s course, The Ultimate Crowdfunding Course for Authors and found it very helpful. I also read Russell Nohelty and Monica Leonelle’s book, Get Your Book Selling on Kickstarter . Additionally, there...
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