Thanks Robin for your input. And your ways of connecting and selling in the wake of such a disappointing and bizarre reaction to your link through Kickstarter. Maybe a sign of how it is in this 1% own 70% of the wealth country of ours, where even a few bucks can’t be spent on something worthy. A grassroots effort may be the only way. Teacher websites, I hadn’t thought of, not sure if my adult fiction would work for that. Free workshops I have no experience with. Book signings yes, and an appearance before one book club. It didn’t generate more than a few sales. My latest novel, one I’m still working on, got favorable reviews from both Kirkus and Foreward Clarion, that first edition sold only a handful of books sold. Knocking on doors. I wish I could do that. A guy down the street had his own way, he put his book and an invoice down the mail shutes of people on our block. Both, I’m guessing, were tossed. Ours was.

Jones, I understand your dilemma. I put my Kickstarter on FB and linked to to back me. This past week. I had so many likes, and not went to the site to back me. over 400 followers and they all loved the creativity and challenge. but, no backers, even my loyal clients. I was dismayed as to what I could do. I believe now, with all the hype of social media, it will be best for me to return to grassroot efforts, networking like the years prior to social media. I will be doing free workshops, and show my work on teacher websites with samples. I do know amazon has a sample read site for kindle.
I actually had a man knock on my front door to sell a children’s book he wrote. I was concerned, he seemed genuine. I gave him money and went on FB to see if he indeed wrote the book. I found him on FB and thought, “what a way to sell your book”. Like selling vacuum cleaners!!

If you are interested in taking a look, you can do so here: https://www.inkshares.com/projects/conversations-a-collection-of-short-stories
Thanks.

Thanks for your thoughtful questions! At Pubslush we offer flex funding because we believe any financial support can be helpful when publishing. As a niche platform we are able to cater to our audience and offer flex funding, whereas other bigger platforms have to take all types of projects into account.

I don’t believe there is more of a call for action with fixed funding, however it’s important to know your goals and create an appropriate minimum funding level. If you’re unable to fulfill your publishing goals and rewards without a certain amount of money it’s important to take that into account.