Is This Part of the New Publishing Paradigm?

So publishers don’t do advances, editing, or book promotion (unless you can sell anything you print your name on.) What are you to do, if you’re a writer? Options seem to be: don’t quit your day job or starve while you’re creating your opus. Or is there a third option? Hint: there are always more than two options.

I’m experimenting with one of the options more than two. It’s called crowd funding, using Kickstarter.com. If you click here you can checkout how it works (using my project, of course.)

Here’s the concept.

Hundreds of years ago creative types (artists, authors, musicians) relied on patrons from wealthy familiies to fund their activites – including staying alive. Capitalism came along and rendered that approach archaic. After a while, capitalists noticed that creativity wasn’t always profitable. So the market placed ‘parameters’ on creativity. Fast forwarding, the publishing, music and whole crreative arts industry imploded. You can speculate on why.

Internets to the rescue. Technology devised the democratization of patronage. Now anyone of any economic level can chip in and help creative projects flourish. And maybe – a new age of enlightenment will be upon us. But that’s up to you.

Visit a crowd funding website now to discover the thrill of becoming a patron (translation: feeling like a filthy rich dude.)  And if you don’t have the time or energy to Google crowd funding, just click my link above.