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• allynh commented on Let's Talk About Running A Successful Kickstarter Campaign
  Harry said - Second, the reason I don't return to 20P isn't money, it's readers. Each book sold 2/3rds what the previous one did. That's a shrinking fan base, and it's not healthy for my long-term career. 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...
• Al Billings commented on Let's Talk About Running A Successful Kickstarter Campaign
  Allynh, why are you "fansplaining" to an author about why their series failed and what they should be doing with their own time to "fix" this? I think he has a grasp on the commercial aspect of his writing and made the decision to cut his losses and do something that might be sustainable for him (personally as well as financially) as an author. 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...
• guthrie commented on Let's Talk About Running A Successful Kickstarter Campaign
  I feel obliged to point out that authors need money to live on, so yes, in a way they are doing it for the money. If they have no money, they starve to death somewhere or die of a preventable disease. So at some point they can't just keep writing because not enough money is coming in to feed them etc....
• paws4thot commented on Let's Talk About Running A Successful Kickstarter Campaign
  Your analysis is horribly flawed. In particular by the statement "Readers have been burned so many times by a "series" that starts and then never has another book published. ". 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...
• Martin commented on Let's Talk About Running A Successful Kickstarter Campaign
  Well, I've finished the Way into Chaos trilogy, and rather enjoyed it - and nope, no hanging unfulfilled endings. :) Add that to Karen Memery, and it's been a busy week of reading :)...