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Ksenia Anske

July 23, 2014

Crowdfunding for writers

by Ksenia Anske


Photo by Joel Robison

Photo by Joel Robison

Photo by Joel Robison

Photo by Joel Robison

And the big day is coming. The big day when I finally run out of money completely and have to do my first fundraising project and see if I survive or die. Or maybe I will have a choice of death, like I will stand in the streets and tell people I'm a writer who ran out of money so do they think I should hang myself or impale myself on a spear or fustigate myself with a club or...but I'm getting carried away. I do hope I survive. I do also hope that my painstakingly collected research will help you decide on a platform in case you wanted to raise money too. I mean, in case you're a writer and you want to crowdfund your books. Cause maybe you're a kangaroo. I'm sure there are crowdfunding places for that as well. 

HERE ARE A BUNCH OF CROWDFUNDING PLACES.

Kickstarter. 

Well, we all heard about this one. I don't know if they are actually the first ones who offered this fundraising thingy and I'm being lazy and I haven't done research to see if they are, because for our purposes it doesn't matter. What matters is the following:

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TAGS: fundraising, crowdfunding, crowdsourcing, raising money, funding books, kickstarter, money, funds, donations