Bootstrapper: How I would self-publish a children's book. [a blog for twitter convo.]

in Alien Art Hive4 years ago (edited)

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Fund in the following way:

  1. HIVE and Cent Posts throughout development.
  2. Collect individual crowdfunded funding for source of project:

ex:

Ronin The Collector pitches in X to start the project, and determines topics, and themes.
Matthew Cent pitches in X to support the project, and determines character types and environment.

This initial funding creates the Storyboard.

3 . Once the Storyboard has been created, artist begins creating envirnoment style NFTs -- basically landscape NFTs. These may or may not go, but they can be utilized with ASYNC afterward, thus providing another avenue of monetization.

4 . Once the landscape art assets have been created, and the storyboard is complete, you are now ready to complete the project.

Here you have two options to explore. One would be a drip feed of regular page by page NFT releases, so a slow build can grow with your project -- or you can wait and finish them and release them all at once to try and create a sort of fundraising spectacle of your minting the project.

Once all unique NFTs have been sold, you have completed this section.

5 . Further Monetize the childrens book through a platform like Rarible, where you can sell Cover Variants, with PDFs -- or even better, through Makersplace, or HIVE - where you can release an NFT with limited animations [another benefit of creating independent art assets] -- while reading the story out loud for each section -- this might be the ultimate version.

6 . Once Crypto fundraising has been completed, and the project has been fulfilled, take your now complete project, and bring it over to Kickstarter, and fund either a Digital Release [PDF] or an MP4 release [a childrens show / reading style project] - or a traditional Print Run.

7 . Fulfill your orders through Kickstarter, and then if you have a physical item such as a print run, you can bring that back over to the Crypto-sphere and then distribute those for ETH / HIVE for a comparable price to the work you did in USD.

8 . Be sure to thank Ronin and Matthew for being the progenitors of the story. Use your new experience and following to create the next children's book.

~And all of the aspiring artists lived happily ever after now that they knew how to create projects for patrons by leveraging multiple platforms and economies for a single dream.

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The initial seeding for the story could be via bounty if you wanted to set up a structure -- but probably better for you to just pick some people that you admire their work, and push them to think 'project'.

Also, to be fair, I think in order to do really well on Kickstarter, it ought to be a public domain derivation -- if you have no audience, it's better to make a project for a pre-existing audience.

You'd also qualify to post your work in ipad's children's animated apps, and on Kindle self-publishing.

Just remembered those outlets as well.