Poll: Kickstarter Goals

[jeriendhal]

So, as I mentioned in my last post I'm listening to M.C.A. Hogarth's From Spark to Finish: Running Your Kickstarter Campaign, which has good advice for setting realistic goals for your campaign and also figuring out appropriate (and affordable) donation gifts.

What I need to do first is figure out how much the whole project is going to cost. I'm figuring a minimum of $1500 for a 90 page novella, though I'm likely low balling that. First I need to set up a script for the narrator auditions and get their offers. After that, I have to figure what rewards and stretch goals to offer backers. Unfortunately I'm a writer not an artist like haikujaguar, so the rewards I can offer are limited, but I've got a few ideas.


Preliminary Reward Ideas

$1.00 - Follower! No reward, just the chance to follow the campaign.

$5.00 - Honorable Mention. Have your name read off at the end of the book.

$10.00 - Icon! An original social media icon created by one of my artist friends, probably featuring Melanie in her Red Vixen persona giving a thumbs up sign or something equally silly.

$15.00 - Hand signed thank you note, possibly from me or the Red Vixen "herself".

$25.00 - Copy of the Audiobook.

$30.00 - Everything below and the original Kindle file.

$50.00 - Reader's pack. Audiobook and copies of all the stories in the Red Vixen Adventures series.

$100 - The Whole Works. The Audiobook and copies of all my previously published stories.

??? - Tuckerization. I'm thinking about giving three to four people a chance to have themselves show up (either as Foxen or another species) for a brief cameo in the next Red Vixen story. This is the one I'm little shaky deciding a price for, especially given it'll be a significant percentage of the overall goal.

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Stretch Goals

Here's where things get tricky. The only real stretch goal I can think of is perhaps a more professional cover for CotRV, and further audiobooks, but given the first is going to be just a $100 to $500, and the audiobooks at least $1,500 apiece, I have to figure out some intermediate goals between them. Thoughts would be welcome.

So waddya thinks, sirs?

Comments

[allah-sulu.livejournal.com]

I have to figure out some intermediate goals

  Assuming you get “a more professional cover for CotRV,” some stretch goals based on that might be an 8½"×11" print of the new artwork, with or without autograph by you and/or the artist. You could start without the autograph(s), then add it/them for additional stretch goals; or add the autograph(s) only for those above a certain pledge level, or for an additional add-on cost, etc. If the artwork is really sweet, you could also see about having it (without autographs, maybe without any text at all depending, put onto other things like t-shirts).

I'm thinking about giving three to four people a chance to have themselves show up (either as Foxen or another species) for a brief cameo in the next Red Vixen story.

  And possibly for an even higher pledge, for a single person(?), allowing them to actually record a single line of dialog for their cameo character to be used in the audio book.

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

Doubt that last one would work, as it might infringe on the work contract for the narrator, but the idea of a nice copy of the cover art might.

[seawasp]

Take a look at my own for my opinions. $5.00 is where people got the e-Book. Audiobooks are expensive, though, so maybe that would be too low. $20 - $25 is where most of the gravy is.

I had $250 as the "personal appearance" level; you being less published might want to put it at $100, but I don't know; you don't want TOO many takers, and even at $250 I ended up with *6* people (well, 5 at $250 and one at *$1000*).