Just Another Manic Monday

I spent the weekend putting all the little pieces of my upcoming Kickstarter campaign for The Books of Apep series together. Today, I'm finetuning everything before I send the project to the Kickstarter peeps for approval. It's been three years since I did the Millersburg Magick Mysteries Kickstarter. A lot has changed since 2023.

Besides the fact that I no longer need glasses to drive. LOL

The Kickstarter peeps have added a ton of new tools to make things a lot easier for campaigners and backers. I'm trying a couple of the new things with this campaign. And I plan to use a few more with the October Kickstarter for the Justice 10th Anniversary hardback editions.

If you've never done a book campaign on Kickstarter or haven't done one in a while (like me) I highly recommend Anthea Sharp's Kickstarter for Authors. The second edition lays out all the recent changes in an easy to understand format.

(And yes, I stole her name for my Justice series heroine.)

Unfortunately, the many problems I've encountered have nothing to do with Kickstarter itself. It has everything to do with ordering certain crafting material from foreign countries and sending physical rewards overseas. The ongoing trade wars the U.S. president started when he took office has done a ton to hurt small companies like mine, even though he claims to be pro-business. That's why I'm starting over with a very simple, no-bling campaign. E-books are easy to send anywhere in the world, but physical goods have gotten ridiculously expensive to ship.

*sigh*

We'll so how things go with the two campaigns I've planned for 2026, and look over the data before I map out next years production schedule.