How to supercharge your writing career with Kickstarter
Learn how to validate your Kickstarter idea, build hype for your campaign, and deliver well so backers come back repeatedly.
How to build a sustainable and profitable subscription into your business
Having consistent income every month helps create safety, but how can we build that recurring revenue when it feels impossible to get anyone interested in peeking behind the paywall.
How to build an email sequence for a book launch
In this article, I’m going to explain how you can send emails daily during a book launch without pissing off your audience, and give you the exact sequence I used along the way.
Short circuiting the Substack burnout cycle
It seems like writers have a six-month burn rate where they come in excited, start to build, grind, and burn out. How do we live better lives in the meat grinder of capitalism?
How to launch an $80,000 Kickstarter for a single issue comic
Beast & Snow has been an absolute roller coaster ride of a campaign, and the creators break down how they raised over $80,000 for the first issue.
How to build a basic, beautiful one page website
By the end of this article, you will be able to build and launch an amazing one-page website, even if you don't know how to code.
Kickstarter publishing category growth in seven charts
Working with Stat Significant, we were able to break down the history of the Kickstarter publishing category between 2013 and 2021.
Scale your author business like a startup
Call me delusional, but I really do believe that writers can build brands and businesses on par with any other industry out there.
2023 income breakdown
Wherein I break down all the good and bad from the year that was and plan for 2024, and maybe have a bit of a breakdown in the process.
Why make an anthology?
In this lecture, we talk about how to use Google Keyword Planner to find your theme and title your anthology.
Initial questions
Before we get into choosing a theme, we have to answer some basic questions about what it means to create an anthology, why we create, and what we are creating for.
How to narrow down your theme...
In this lesson, we discuss ways to narrow down your theme that are more than just guessing, and result in an incredibly strong theme that will draw in creators and readers alike.
How to title your Anthology
In this lecture, we talk about how to use Google Keyword Planner to find your theme and title your anthology.
How to use Google Keyword Planner to find your theme and title your anthology
In this lecture, we talk about how to use Google Keyword Planner to find your theme and title your anthology.
Creating a budget
In this lesson I go through a top sheet anthology budget I use for my projects.
Creating the submission form
In this lesson, we create the submission for that people will use to submit to your anthology.
Creating and monitoring your Facebook production group
In this lesson we talk about creating and engaging with your production Facebook group.
Creating Templates
In this lesson we talk about creating template files for your anthology.
Picking creators
In this lesson, we talk about the process I go through to pick creators.
Compiling the anthology
In this lesson, we talk about the secret anthology strategy that netted me $25,000 on Pixie Dust, and how to use it for yourself.
Landing pages
In this lesson, we discuss setting up a landing page to your anthology so people can sign up to receive a free preview.
Making the title, credit, special thanks, and foreword pages
In this lesson, we discuss making the introductory pages of your anthology -- credits, foreword, special thanks, and title page.