{"id":182,"date":"2013-03-28T14:51:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-28T14:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tellest.com\/kickstarter-wows-whoas-and-woes\/"},"modified":"2013-08-08T19:21:46","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T19:21:46","slug":"kickstarter-wows-whoas-and-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/kickstarter-wows-whoas-and-woes\/","title":{"rendered":"Kickstarter Wows, Whoas and Woes"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the things that I wanted to make\u00a0explicitly\u00a0clear in my Kickstarter video was that I have been truly blessed by those close to me. \u00a0The Tellest series has always done fairly well, and beaten my expectations thanks to friends and family who help to spread the word, and believe in the material.<\/p>\n

Even in spite of that knowledge, it still blows me away to have $843 pledged already in less than a week. \u00a0At this point, it’s almost a sure thing that enough money will be raised to be successful. \u00a0At some points over the last few days, the project’s projections surged past $6,000!<\/p>\n

Still, there are some things I’ve learned about this campaign<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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First and foremost, Tellest is so out of left field that I can’t possibly result to mimicry to try and emulate someone else’s success. \u00a0Do a search for medieval superheroes and you might<\/i>\u00a0find some pictures of the Avengers\u00a0re-imagined\u00a0in period-piece armor and costumes. \u00a0This makes it incredibly hard to promote the Kickstarter project. \u00a0It is nice to know that the Tellest books are pretty much one-of-a-kind though. \u00a0Seriously, why has nobody ever thought of this before?<\/p>\n

Second, it is really<\/i>\u00a0hard for a publishing project to find any traction on Kickstarter. \u00a0Seriously, I picked the wrong hobby! \u00a0While indie gaming projects are raking in high 5-figure numbers (and sometimes low 6-figure), I’m scrounging for what I consider to be on the low end. <\/p>\n

Whereas friends, family, and people who are already keen on the Tellest books have graciously given their time and their contributions to the Kickstarter, the real challenge is finding the people out there that don’t know they’re fans yet. \u00a0The Enemy Within was popular on Kickstarter for a day or two before it got buried on the site. \u00a0The only hope at this point is some kind of grass-roots campaign to try and pick up the pace. \u00a0Maybe, if I’m extremely lucky, the Kickstarter staff will reevaluate my project and feature it at some point over the next week or so.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, I’ll just keep chugging along. \u00a0Every now and then I’ll blow up Facebook or Twitter, trying to get that one extra person that might be toeing the line. \u00a0There’s still a whole lot of time for the pace to go either way. \u00a0Who knows? \u00a0The project might nosedive at this point and never find its feet again. \u00a0In any case, this has been a very interesting learning experience. \u00a0It’ll be something I’ll remember either way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the things that I wanted to make\u00a0explicitly\u00a0clear in my Kickstarter video was that I have been truly blessed by those close to me. \u00a0The Tellest series has always done fairly well, and beaten my expectations thanks to friends and family who help to spread the word, and believe in the material. Even in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1UVey-2W","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions\/228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}