How Authors Can Get Their Books Selling on Kickstarter with Russell Nohelty

Russell Nohelty has raised over $250K in funding for his books on the Kickstarter platform and credits Kickstarter with saving his career. In this high-level Kickstarter interview, he’ll share why Kickstarter is THE must use platform for authors interested in increasing their profit and visibility.

Highlights of This Session Include:

Russell’s take on why the publishing category lags behind comics in terms of success rate, and what he’s trying to do about it!
Opportunities for comic creators to expand their universe through prose launches.
The rich and varied “aftermarket” for authors after the Kickstarter campaign is over.
Plus: A frank discussion about how for some creators now might NOT be the right time to return to comic conventions.

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Today’s Featured Guest:

Russell Nohelty is no stranger to the ComixLaunch podcast… he’s a USA Today bestselling author, publisher and speaker. He runs the imprint Wannabe Press, which publishes weird books for weird people. To date, he’s raised over $250K on the Kickstarter platform across eighteen projects including prose novels, graphic novels, anthologies and more. His latest project is “Get Your Book Selling on Kickstarter” co-written with Monica Leonelle.

Links Mentioned in Today’s Show:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lovelightlioness/kickstarter-for-authors

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Go to Russell’s Kickstarter page for Get Your Book Selling On Kickstarter and look at the image of books in the How to Get Your Book Selling series and pick one channel you are not currently selling in or would like to be selling better or doing more business in, and then research it.