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  • I am adding my 2 cents here re. Leah's question:  Poets and Writers has an excellent guide to literary awards, funding, prizes, and so forth.  Pick up a copy, or access it online.
  • ...mply never replied to our outreach. I belong to an organization called Saint Paul Almanac which collects stories from the community and the grant funding process has been hard, it see...
  • ...lly in genres like romance and sci-fi. For me, it wasn't an option i wanted to pursue for my fiction, because i have no desire to do (or find the funding to hire someone to do) all th...
  • ...-- government agencies, Congress, etc. -- and if they didn't ensure that the document was understandable by that audience, it could affect their funding.  (That usually got their att...
  • ...o us. On the other hand, I would love to get your thoughts on volunteering. Where do we set limits? For example, a great project when the initial funding is gone: how do you determine...
  • ...ith a focus on the lives of frogs.) Finally here, to our first question.  What percentage of the book projects you list are able to achieve their funding goals? Second question.  Do y...
  • ...s quickly as possible.  We raised the money on kickstarter.com - so our marketing began before the book was even a reality....the beauty of crowd-funding is building an amazing group...
  • What a great story. Though some of us wouldn't worry about the funding of publication, the way you went about getting a core audience is certainly a help to those of us published by i...
  • ...ice to fit somebody else's definition of commercially viable. The added touch of insanity with my Kickstarter quest is that I launched the 30-day funding campaign, and as you know, it...
  • ...a vetted self-pub press, and conceived a projectcalled Chicago Public Publishing to do something similar to what you're doing, but we had trouble funding the vetting process.  I hope...