It’s good to be the King!
Four years ago this month I thought that my writing career was over. I decided in September of 2008 that I would walk away from a staff position at a publishing company rather than support something that I did not agree with. At the time there were more than a few people that told me that I was making a giant mistake and that I should have just bitten the proverbial bullet and compromise my vision and my principals so that I would be guaranteed to see my name in print.
I kid you not that happened more than once.
The climb has been difficult since then, difficult but rewarding. In that time I have produced freelance content for another publisher and I have written a three novel series, a trilogy if you will. I made the attempt to interest agents and independent publishing companies in my books but nobody even wanted to look at my work. To say it was disheartening is an understatement. Then at the beginning of this summer I decided that I didn’t even want to have someone else publish my work, I had already traveled that road and found it not to my liking. There is a massive difference between doing work for hire for a company and having someone assume control of your creative property for more of their benefit than yours.
I began the process of getting the trilogy ready for self publication and founding my own publishing company. It became quickly apparent that while I could do a bare bones publication of my books with little to no advertising for relatively cheap I did not want to go that route. I looked into crowd funding and decided to set up a Kickstarter in order to raise funds. I figured I needed a thousand dollars in order to afford some professional editing, high quality cover art, and some advertising in a format beyond the social media matrix.
I set the time frame for the Kickstarter at sixty days fearing that it was going to be a squeaker when it came to hitting the goal. I worried that there would not be enough people that were even remotely interested in my project or that Zombie Fatigue would kill interest and that even after sixty days I would not hit my goal. Well I have twenty days left for the Kickstarter and as of this afternoon I am 100% funded, anything else is the gravy that will make it all so much more awesome.
I just want to take a second to give all the thanks and gratitude in the world to everyone who backed, shared, and morally supported me in this Endeavour. By the first week of November, although I am hoping for before Halloween, the first book of The Shores of the Dead (The Shores of the Dead Book One: The Escape) will be available on Kindle and in Print!
That’s right folks my books WILL be available in print format.
I never thought I would be to this point I my life, I never thought I could do something this amazing. And the bald truth is that without the support of my friends, family, and the people that have enjoyed my work and supported me I never would have.
There will be a new public and a new backer’s only update on Kickstarter either tonight or tomorrow.
I will be considering whether or not to set a stretch goal to raise more money for the project.
You guys and gals all rock!
I kid you not that happened more than once.
The climb has been difficult since then, difficult but rewarding. In that time I have produced freelance content for another publisher and I have written a three novel series, a trilogy if you will. I made the attempt to interest agents and independent publishing companies in my books but nobody even wanted to look at my work. To say it was disheartening is an understatement. Then at the beginning of this summer I decided that I didn’t even want to have someone else publish my work, I had already traveled that road and found it not to my liking. There is a massive difference between doing work for hire for a company and having someone assume control of your creative property for more of their benefit than yours.
I began the process of getting the trilogy ready for self publication and founding my own publishing company. It became quickly apparent that while I could do a bare bones publication of my books with little to no advertising for relatively cheap I did not want to go that route. I looked into crowd funding and decided to set up a Kickstarter in order to raise funds. I figured I needed a thousand dollars in order to afford some professional editing, high quality cover art, and some advertising in a format beyond the social media matrix.
I set the time frame for the Kickstarter at sixty days fearing that it was going to be a squeaker when it came to hitting the goal. I worried that there would not be enough people that were even remotely interested in my project or that Zombie Fatigue would kill interest and that even after sixty days I would not hit my goal. Well I have twenty days left for the Kickstarter and as of this afternoon I am 100% funded, anything else is the gravy that will make it all so much more awesome.
I just want to take a second to give all the thanks and gratitude in the world to everyone who backed, shared, and morally supported me in this Endeavour. By the first week of November, although I am hoping for before Halloween, the first book of The Shores of the Dead (The Shores of the Dead Book One: The Escape) will be available on Kindle and in Print!
That’s right folks my books WILL be available in print format.
I never thought I would be to this point I my life, I never thought I could do something this amazing. And the bald truth is that without the support of my friends, family, and the people that have enjoyed my work and supported me I never would have.
There will be a new public and a new backer’s only update on Kickstarter either tonight or tomorrow.
I will be considering whether or not to set a stretch goal to raise more money for the project.
You guys and gals all rock!
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