I am constantly asked how to make a living as an author, and so here it is. If you want to have the best chance of being a successful author in 2022 (and beyond), then you should write one of the following genres: romance (including reverse harem, erotica, paranormal, et al) thriller (including crime, mystery,
Since the show season is wrapping up, I thought I would avail you of my convention strategy, going all the way back to when I started doing shows, as you plan for 2023 and beyond. If you wanna get to the next level as a creator quickly (aside from making better comics) then here’s the
In September of 2016, I wrapped up my fourth Kickstarter campaign in 12 months. Katrina Hates the Dead ran from September until October 2015. Then My Father Didn’t Kill Himself ran from February to March 2016. Then I Can’t Stop Tooting: A Love Story ran from April to May 2016. Finally, Spaceship Broken, Needs Repairs
I’ve been running Kickstarter campaigns since 2014, and backing them since way before then. In fact, I just realized I joined Kickstarter all the way back in 2011, even though I didn’t run my first project for 4 more years. Since I started running campaigns, I’ve raised over $70,000 across seven different campaigns from...
Query letters seem like they should be easy, right? After writing a script of several thousand to a hundred thousand words, writing a one-page email should be cake. So why do so many people have problems with it? It’s because they don’t really understand the purpose of a query letter. A query letter is not
When I launched our new campaign for our latest anthology, Cthulhu is Hard to Spell: The Terrible Twos, we were able to raise over $12,700 in 48 hours, and I thought I would talk a bit about what it took to get here. Granted, I’ve had a lot of success on Kickstarter and have
I was launching books for 87 days this year, and raised over $75,000 doing it, which is impressive, but the most impressive part of it was that I had ZERO negative days. In 87 days of launching, almost three months of this year, across comics, anthologies, and novels, Not one of those 87 days were
A successful Kickstarter is really about having a dead zone strategy that keeps people engaged and brings in more people every week of the campaign. The dead zone is the time between the first 3-5 days of your campaign and the last 3-5 days of your campaign when interest and excitement wanes. A big launch
Q: I want a mailing list, but I have no idea what I should write in them. HALP! A: One of the most important tools in your marketing toolkit is the mailing list, but it’s hard to come up with something to write EVERY week. It’s hard for me, too, but there are several TYPES
It’s been six months since the world ended. I spend almost all my time thinking about death, grief, and loss and worrying about the worst-case scenarios. I thought I would be prepared, but I wasn’t prepared. I immediately jumped into a thousand meetings that didn’t matter and filling my time with tons of projects that
I’ve been thinking a lot about the mechanics of a successful creative career, or any career, especially when it comes to products, which is what I do, and I’ve created a five-step process for how to think about the stages of a creative career, if you want to make something that is sustainable for the
The higher you get in a profession, the harder it is to get to the next rung. So, if the “success” in a profession can be tracked from 1%-100%, with 100% being the most absurdly successful person in your industry, then it’s much easier to get from 80%-90%, than it is to get from 90-91%,
