A couple of months ago when I was talking about the expenses of self-publishing my boyfriend reminded me of Kickstarter. Since more books and media pieces are being crowdfunded these days I thought it might be a good idea for my novella too. I’d looked into it, prepared my campaign, and then right before I planned to launch, a friend found lots of ways to improve on the campaign story. I pushed the launch a month, worked on the project and asked around some more. Then, again, right before launch I hear that apparently there’s some readers and writers who condemn crowdfunding for several reasons. I’ve gone from confusion, to worry, through anger and have finally settled into… I don’t know. I literally don’t know what to do about this. My friends, my boyfriend, they all tell me just to continue as I was. There will always be people who find fault in whatever you’re doing and find a reason to kick you down. And they’re right, but I’m not sure if I want to take this risk. There are more downsides to it, and I feel like I’m severely lacking information to make a complete picture. All I can safely do for now is push this Kickstarter indefinitely until I know what’s best to do for me. At the very least until I’ve completely written, rewritten en self-edited my complete manuscript.

I’ve gone from confusion, through worry, to anger and have finally settled into… I don’t know. I literally don’t know what to do about this. My friends, my boyfriend, they all tell me just to continue. There will always be people who find fault in whatever you’re doing and find a reason to kick you down. And they’re right, but I’m not sure if I want to take this risk. There are more downsides to having a Kickstarter to fund my book, and I feel like I’m severely lacking information to paint a complete picture of all the consequences. All I can safely do for now is push this Kickstarter indefinitely until I know what’s best to do for me. At the very least until I’ve completely written, rewritten en self-edited my complete manuscript.

There’s one thing you could do for me though. Share your thoughts. About using crowdfunding for self-publishing a book (it would be like pre-ordering the book plus some neat extra’s), and let me know if you’re interested in reading and possibly backing Salandrine.

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