I have been working towards launching a kickstarter campaign to underwrite the production of the world's first CFRP 3D printed WR breaking r/c dynamic soaring glider - the current record stands at 628 mph, and I want to hit 730mph at SL - Mach 1.01....flown from Pike's Peak by the nutters you see moving their CF ships faster than a 60fps refresh rate on a camcorder CCD.... Thereafter, the glider can then be on-sold.
Design work is (mostly) finished in Solidworks for FEA and Stress Analysis, and hey-wow renders are finished in Rhino3D, and Windform CRP tell me they can do wing panels and fuse sections of 1.0m, so all is good for a 3.0m F3J or F3B FAI class conformal airframe.
Similiar projects are an EPP version of the Jaro Muller ellipse 2V for immortal high-performance sloping (the plane will be both fast and unkillable in midair and air-to-ground impacts) as well as an F3J of 4m wingspan, 3D printed from diverse materials. Production by, and units sold by Hobbyking.com for maximum market penetration. A better Salangane or Sunbird....and much faster. Plus there is a growing fascination with ludicrous wingspan electric F3J ships in Australia for a target market.
OK, so this is precis, but I am much beholden to you for elucidating the requirements necessary to see to it that a Kickstarter campaign is successful. For this I am very grateful , and will be taking your recommendations and experience to heart, as well as downloading and documenting the data to use as touchstone as I take there projects to the furthest point possible in medium term.
With thanks, from the shores R'Lyeh in Auckland.
]]>However the thanks are the same. Much much much appreciated to you sir !
]]>Just bought the book - it would be really helpful if you could have a link to Amazon UK from your page. (Reducing friction etc).
Looking forward to reading it - just need to finish the latest Scott Lynch book first.
]]>One thing that's a bit of a shame about this crowd-funded self-published business is that there's not likely to be audiobooks. I ride my bicycle a lot these days, and there's nothing I love better than to ride through the Santa Monica mountains while listening to a good audiobook. Oh well, guess I'll have to dust off the old eyeballs.
Harry: do you think this could be a viable way for you to keep publishing going forward, or would you prefer to go back to a traditional publisher given the chance?
]]>Anyone have any suggestions here? The few times I've looked into this I felt like I needed to shower after dealing with them. Are there "good guys" in this industry?
]]>That means that audiobooks are something I'm hoping my agent can sell, while she works on foreign rights sales.
]]>Anyone have any suggestions here? The few times I've looked into this I felt like I needed to shower after dealing with them. Are there "good guys" in this industry?
I draw cartoons, and have had them printed onto mugs, T-shirts, large-size paper for prints, and cards. These were all done by people in my town (Oxford), and I can say that at least where I live, yes there are good guys. I'm lucky enough to live in a university town which can support such businesses, so I've never bothered looking on the Internet for them.
Oxford also has many artists, which means that if I didn't draw, or didn't want to, I could easily find someone to do so for me. With both the art and the printing, I think it's important to meet the people who'd be doing it for you, suss them out, look at other work they've done. So find an artist, find a printer, and meet them face-to-face.
Since you'll probably be carrying digital images from the artist to the printer, it helps to know the best file format for the image. And how to scan it, if the artist can't.
It may also be useful if you can manipulate it into the format needed by the printer. For my mugs, I had to take each of my cartoons, and then size it so that it was horizontally aligned between the top of the mug and the bottom, with a margin top and bottom for the regions where the heat is so intense that it burns the resin carrying the image. I also had to double each cartoon, so that a copy would appear each side of the handle. I'm sure most readers of this blog could do that kind of image processing, but if you can't, find someone who can.
I can't suggest anything about sussing out such people over the net, should there be none in your locality.
Oh — and preview, preview, preview. It may cost money in proof copies, but it can avoid expensive mistakes.
]]>Look at your wiki page. Type in "Harry Connolly" and it redirects to "Twenty Palaces". You don't have a wiki page, your series does. What does that tell you.
Now look at the wiki page for "Douglas Preston" and click on "Collaborations with Lincoln Child". Look at the order in which they published the books.
Agent Pendergast series 1) Relic (1995) 2) Reliquary (1997)
"Stories using associated characters" Mount Dragon (1996) Riptide (1998) Thunderhead (1999) The Ice Limit (2000)
3) The Cabinet of Curiosities (2002) 4) Still Life with Crows (2003)
"Diogenes Trilogy": 5) Brimstone (2004) 6) Dance of Death (2005) 7) The Book of the Dead (2006)
8) The Wheel of Darkness (2007) 9) Cemetery Dance (2009)
"Helen Trilogy": 10) Fever Dream (2010) 11) Cold Vengeance (2011) 12) Two Graves (2012)
13) White Fire (2013) 14) Blue Labyrinth (2014)
"Gideon Crew series, in the same Verse" 1) Gideon's Sword (2011) 2) Gideon's Corpse (2012) 3) The Lost Island (2014)
They played in the world where Pendergast existed before they focused on one main character. They had fun in that world, telling Story. They discovered that Pendergast was the most interesting character to build around. That's what people picked up. Now they are playing with "Gideon Crew" as a character, while still writing about Pendergast. They are seeing if people will shift over to Gideon Crew. I tried to read the Crew books, and they are dead on the page.
I didn't buy the Pendergast series by Preston & Child until book ten came out. I bought the "Diogenes Trilogy" part of the series first, read those, then bought everything they did together. I love Story that plays in the same Verse.
Readers have been burned so many times by a "series" that starts and then never has another book published. The reason the number of sales dropped with each new 20P book was because people were waiting to see if you actually produced more in that world. In other words, they were looking to see if you had a Story to tell, or if you were just doing it for the money.
You answered that question.
Harry said - What I need is a book or books that snowball with readers. I hope The Great Way will do that. I also hope the next project I have planned will do that. I already [tried] that with 20P and it didn't work.
You have a whole Verse where 20P occurs. Why are you abandoning that Verse just because people are dodging your "snowballs". Stop expecting things to "snowball" and write Story in that Verse.
Where are the stories of regular people having to deal with the monsters.
]]>As far as the 20 Palaces books, I was a fan of those as well. I still plan on running a 20 Palaces FATE RPG game with friends though I wish there was more of a guide to the world and what was really going on with the society and its enemies!
]]>I'll happily take a punt on a series of standalone novels like 20P where the same protagonists recur but each book reaches a conclusion in itself. When I will feel "burnt" is if $author writes V1 (and maybe V2) of $major_trilogy but never writes (or at least publishes) V3. Similarly, I'll happily accept that all authors are in it at least partly for the money: no money -> no food on table -> starving in garret etc...
]]>Add that to Karen Memery, and it's been a busy week of reading :)
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