Structuring Life to Support Creativity Launching Next Month
7 months ago
– Thu, May 09, 2024 at 01:18:19 PM
Greetings!
I'm about 30 days out from my hoped-for launch date for Structuring Life to Support Creativity. That simultaneously feels like plenty of time, but also like I will never get everything lined up to go.
If this is the first you've heard about this project. Welcome! I'm publishing a resource book to help creative people make more space in their lives for the creative work they want to be doing. The book is drawn from thirty years of experience and a decade of giving presentations at conventions and events. I'm excited to get it all collected into a book format.
Here are some updates about the project
Interior text:
I handed a draft of the book to an editor who will tell me how close what I have written is to being ready. I fully expect additional rounds of revision and editing even during and after the funding period. Those different editing passes are how a draft is turned into a polished book. If this editor comes back telling me about large scale issues, then I may have to push back the launch date. Right now it feels like that won't be necessary. fingers crossed.
Cover:
I've contracted a cover designer and she'll be getting me drafts of the cover next week. One of the purposes of this fundraiser is to help pay for the cover design, but I know that the project will fund much better if there is a gorgeous cover to show off, so I'm investing in the cover in advance. This is simply one of the costs of being your own publisher.
Cost quotes on book printing:
I pinged an offset book printer to get a quote. The lowest-cost plan for this book is to go with Print on Demand suppliers, BUT if there are enough backers I can work with an offset printer to create a fancier, higher quality book. Getting this quote will help me do the math on how many backers I need in order to upgrade the book to offset, and how many more I'll need to make the book hardback. I have careful math to do about production on this book and in order to set stretch goals.
Cost quotes on bonus items:
I have ideas for "book box" pledge levels which would include pretty swag and other items. I need to source good things to go into that box and calculate costs so I can price it appropriately.
Finalizing back end set up:
I have some additional set up steps to take here on Backerkit so that the project can be cleared to launch. Fortunately these steps are very familiar to me, so getting this part done just requires me to find a day when I can focus on it.
There are so many moving parts in a crowdfunded project. Most of them are my job, but the one you can help me with is clicking the follow button. Backerkit's calculator says I'll need around 300 followers to help this project launch successfully. So click that follow button, and if you have a friend who you think would be interested, have them click follow too!
Thank you so much for backing a prior project of mine. I hope you'll join me for this one as well!
Sandra Tayler
I'm about 30 days out from my hoped-for launch date for Structuring Life to Support Creativity. That simultaneously feels like plenty of time, but also like I will never get everything lined up to go.
If this is the first you've heard about this project. Welcome! I'm publishing a resource book to help creative people make more space in their lives for the creative work they want to be doing. The book is drawn from thirty years of experience and a decade of giving presentations at conventions and events. I'm excited to get it all collected into a book format.
Here are some updates about the project
Interior text:
I handed a draft of the book to an editor who will tell me how close what I have written is to being ready. I fully expect additional rounds of revision and editing even during and after the funding period. Those different editing passes are how a draft is turned into a polished book. If this editor comes back telling me about large scale issues, then I may have to push back the launch date. Right now it feels like that won't be necessary. fingers crossed.
Cover:
I've contracted a cover designer and she'll be getting me drafts of the cover next week. One of the purposes of this fundraiser is to help pay for the cover design, but I know that the project will fund much better if there is a gorgeous cover to show off, so I'm investing in the cover in advance. This is simply one of the costs of being your own publisher.
Cost quotes on book printing:
I pinged an offset book printer to get a quote. The lowest-cost plan for this book is to go with Print on Demand suppliers, BUT if there are enough backers I can work with an offset printer to create a fancier, higher quality book. Getting this quote will help me do the math on how many backers I need in order to upgrade the book to offset, and how many more I'll need to make the book hardback. I have careful math to do about production on this book and in order to set stretch goals.
Cost quotes on bonus items:
I have ideas for "book box" pledge levels which would include pretty swag and other items. I need to source good things to go into that box and calculate costs so I can price it appropriately.
Finalizing back end set up:
I have some additional set up steps to take here on Backerkit so that the project can be cleared to launch. Fortunately these steps are very familiar to me, so getting this part done just requires me to find a day when I can focus on it.
There are so many moving parts in a crowdfunded project. Most of them are my job, but the one you can help me with is clicking the follow button. Backerkit's calculator says I'll need around 300 followers to help this project launch successfully. So click that follow button, and if you have a friend who you think would be interested, have them click follow too!
Thank you so much for backing a prior project of mine. I hope you'll join me for this one as well!
Sandra Tayler
