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I've been asked a few times about why I opted for Kickstarter on CATCH & RELEASE: A MURDER BOOK STORY...which of course, you can find here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/linneycomics/murderbook
Thread of me rambling about the why of it all.
1/10
Thread of me rambling about the why of it all.
1/10
For starters, this is a stand-alone graphic novel that we're releasing as a hardcover. With the pandemic and so much uncertainty about :waves hands around: everything, not many publishers are willing to take a shot on a project like this. It's too much of a gamble for them 2/10
And, you can't blame them. No one knows how things are going to shake out. It makes sense to decrease risk during a time like this. Hardcovers aren't cheap to print and Crime is a niche genre. 3/10
It's been a long time since I've written a project like this and, along with @LEstherren, we wanted to control how this book was released. We didn't want to take a deal where we'd have to put it out as a softcover or compromise in any other way. 4/10
The hope is that this project will do well enough that I'll be able to come back in a year and release another stand-alone hardcover MURDER BOOK story. Ideally, I wouldn't stop there and continue to make it an annual tradition. 5/10
MURDER BOOK is part of my DNA. It's been part of me for more than a decade and is the thing that I want to pour my soul into and keep creating until it's time for me to hang up my laptop. 6/10
And so, while the project may be a risk for publishers, I feel that taking this through a publisher would also be a risk to the long-term goal of producing this annually. I don't need to rely on the thousands of units we'd need to move for a publisher to want to continue. 7/10
We can reach the audience that *does* want it, as little as 400-500 backers, and know that we'll be able to continue. That we can provide a book the way we want to and that backers will be proud to own. I'm attracted to that direct and intimate relationship with the reader. 8/10
This is why I love backing other projects on Kickstarter as well. I love feeling the passion and commitment oozing off the page of a project that could only have been brought to life on a platform like Kickstarter. 9/10
It's not without risk. It's a lot of work and a ton of stress, but I don't regret it for a moment and will do it again in a heartbeat. Long live niche projects! Long live their audience! 10/10
