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2.09.2006

The Hive #3 – Using Your Book to Pay for Your Book

There’s a new “Hive” up on Buzzscope – we start discussing funding for your book this week and from here on out the topics become a bit more focused and tangible (after three weeks of funding we talk distribution and then marketing). Below is a little excerpt to get you all jazzed up and, since I’m becoming more confident a project I’m putting together is a go, I dropped a hint on my site about it that’ll make The Hive a bit more...interesting.

When you take on the publisher’s role, you need a hell of a lot of seed money. Ideally, there’s at most a writer and an artist (who inks his own work) and one of them does the letters and book design; there’s a lot of faith in the project; and all parties involved are doing it for the love of the story. This way, all you need to pay for is printing, conventions and marketing, and you have a decent chance of at least breaking even. However, once you start adding inkers, colorists and letters into the mix (AHEM, and editors), your cost goes up significantly and your chances of at least breaking even go down substantially. Those guys don’t work for free, no matter how good the story is.

With that in mind, these next discussions are going to focus on methods that can be used to raise a little seed money and increase your chances of not being stuck in a big, fat money pit. This way, if your lettering skills are sketchy at best, you can pay someone to do it for you and not have that eat too much into your budget.

Let’s start out by suggesting we do something a little differently -- we hold off on the printing for a little bit.

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Jason at 7:14 AM  |  link to this     

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