Halfway Through the Black Blossom Kickstarter

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Our status so far:

• We are 264% funded with 77 backers, including a $1000 backer;
• We've hit our unabridged audiobook and book trailer voice-over stretch goals;
• We're only $39 of the $4K goal to get all three books in the series new covers;
• We've only gone one day without getting at least one backer;
• And the project's been chosen as a Kickstarter Staff Pick in the Publishing category.

The last in particular is giving me some interesting data; I am wondering how the statistics will look by the end of the project.

So far, this project has made more for me than any of the other three Kickstarters I've run; Spots was the closest at $3511, and needed over 100 backers to get to that point. Ten Sketches remains my most overfunded project at 589%, but it was also the smallest project I've done ($300 goal).

Nevertheless... running Kickstarters to make money? A tremendous amount of work. Maybe I'll sit back and sell myself as a Kickstarter project consultant to make money instead of doing them myself, in the future...!

Anyway, please do check us out! You can find the project here. I think this is a big win for independent writers. You don't have to be a big fish in the pond to still make your grocery money. Or in my case, child-homeschooling money. :)