Mar. 6th, 2011
Anachronauts: The Bookening
Mar. 6th, 2011 02:14 am![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
twoflower.livejournal.comHey howdy. Crowdfunding community lurker here. I believe this announcement is Relevant To Your Interests.
My genre mashup adventure series, anachronauts, is celebrating its second retail book release. I'm periodically collecting the free online stories together, and adding a book-only bonus story which delves deep into the mysteries of the series. The book version is available in print from CreateSpace, in bits from Kindle, or as a straight up Paypal Donation for folks who lack the tech or the funds to swing the othert wo.
So far this hybrid of free/for-pay is working out well. I'm hardly retiring from my day job (and in fact am hardly buying Doritos now and then from it) but the readers seem to be enjoying it, and I'm looking forward to releasing the next four books in the series in the same way. I'm hoping when I'm done, someone could read the entire series in print and get the same experience as reading the online version -- and then some.
If you're curious and want to take a look at the series, I've got an introductory page, or you can just dive in. Warning: Epic Length Saga Which Will Make You Go "I'll Just Read A Little" And Then Look Up At The Clock And Realize It's 5 AM. Srsly. Been known to happen.
My genre mashup adventure series, anachronauts, is celebrating its second retail book release. I'm periodically collecting the free online stories together, and adding a book-only bonus story which delves deep into the mysteries of the series. The book version is available in print from CreateSpace, in bits from Kindle, or as a straight up Paypal Donation for folks who lack the tech or the funds to swing the othert wo.
So far this hybrid of free/for-pay is working out well. I'm hardly retiring from my day job (and in fact am hardly buying Doritos now and then from it) but the readers seem to be enjoying it, and I'm looking forward to releasing the next four books in the series in the same way. I'm hoping when I'm done, someone could read the entire series in print and get the same experience as reading the online version -- and then some.
If you're curious and want to take a look at the series, I've got an introductory page, or you can just dive in. Warning: Epic Length Saga Which Will Make You Go "I'll Just Read A Little" And Then Look Up At The Clock And Realize It's 5 AM. Srsly. Been known to happen.
Tip Incentives for Writers
Mar. 6th, 2011 11:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ysabetwordsmithstryck has launched an interesting discussion about tip incentives for writers over on ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
crowdfunding. If you're a crowdfunding writer, or a donor, you may want to join this conversation.Tip incentives for writers?
Mar. 6th, 2011 03:51 pmstryck.livejournal.comThanks to being nominated for the Rose and Bay award, I have gotten more organized with my poetry. I have a new tag, "poetry kitchen", for my poetry-on-demand posts and the poems that come from them. From now on, those will be known as "Poetry Kitchen: Feast of Poetry" or "Poetry Kitchen: Sonnet Side Up" or "Poetry Kitchen: General Tso's Haiku".
Hmm... Warrior haiku might be therapeutic, actually.
Anyway, I plan to do another Poetry Kitchen post as soon as I decide if I want to attempt another Feast or do something more narrow. Also, since I am able to accept tips now, I am pondering tip incentives. I might offer a second poem to tippers if tips reach a certain level, or maybe I could say that if they reach a certain level, I will sit down and write a long poem (ode or ballad or saga), and then offer topics for people to vote on.
Any thoughts from the brain trust out there? What kind of tip incentives work for writers?
(xposted to my own journal)
Hmm... Warrior haiku might be therapeutic, actually.
Anyway, I plan to do another Poetry Kitchen post as soon as I decide if I want to attempt another Feast or do something more narrow. Also, since I am able to accept tips now, I am pondering tip incentives. I might offer a second poem to tippers if tips reach a certain level, or maybe I could say that if they reach a certain level, I will sit down and write a long poem (ode or ballad or saga), and then offer topics for people to vote on.
Any thoughts from the brain trust out there? What kind of tip incentives work for writers?
(xposted to my own journal)