We have a startup launching soon which seeks to help authors raise money via "crowd funding" for their early stage novels. It's like Kickstarter for authors. We're currently looking for great writing samples to post initially on the site. Early stage stories welcome!<p>Please send writing samples to samples@storyfunded.com or visit http://www.storyfunded.com for more information.
Love this idea. Would definitely love to fund some of my fav authors, esp ones that post on free sites in spare time. I am wondering how this would work though. As a reader I'd totally do it for an author/excerpt I was psyched about.<p>As an author I'm wondering how useful it would really be. After all, if you already have a large following, getting a publishing deal would be pretty easy. And if you don't have a large following, then you're getting little to no money through the site. Is the site designed to actually help you gather an audience, or is it expected that people will divert their existing audience from other means (social media, etc)<p>I'm assuming if I give money I'd get the book for free (at least digital version). And how much would I have to give to get this. Would I get anything else? Like maybe a "funders-only epilogue" or something?
Have you spent any time at places like <a href="http://www.fanfiction.net/" rel="nofollow">http://www.fanfiction.net/</a> ?<p>My wife is always saying that there are many authors on there that ought to focus on getting non-derivative work published (if they aren't already).<p>I imagine authors could use pseudonyms for their fundraising?
This is a really nice idea (and one, as a part-time writer with a very unfinished novel, I have been thinking about). My worry is that it would be hard to raise the ~$50,000 many authors would need to be able to be able to give up work and complete the tome.