Kickstarter success! What's next?

[mizkit]

My latest Kickstarter, for STONEMASTER, Book 2 of the Guildmaster Saga, has funded!

Poll What's next for STONEMASTER stretch goals?

Comments

[anthony_lion]

The only thing I want is a more timely announcement of new KS projects...
(I prefer not to 'follow' most project creators because I usually don't care what they are backing. )

[mizkit]

I announced a long time ago I wasn't posting to Livejournal anymore. I'm only using it today because it's the only place I can make a poll like this. Join my newsletter, where you will get all the relevant information delivered right to you, pretty much monthly! :) http://tinyletter.com/ce_murphy

[anthony_lion]

You don't have to do something as grand as posting here...
But maybe doing one last update to one of your earlier Kickstarters to announce the new one?
(I tend to leave newsletters unread for a long, long time. The few I actually read... )

[mizkit]

People clearly don't read Kickstarter updates, either, given how many times I repeat myself in them.... :)

I ask people to join the newsletter when I'm wrapping up a Kickstarter so I don't *have* to go to old Kickstarters to make announcements. That way I know I'm only approaching people who want to *be* approached. Which is, in fact, the law here now...

Tune the Studio Piano & a Poster

[thirzah]

a) Tune the Studio Piano. FOR THE GOOD PEOPLE OF DUBLIN (subsection which frequent the studio) ;)

b) An A2 Poster from the cover art that ppl can buy online and get when pledging.
.. and then you get one of those posters yourself, to put over the piano when you tune it.

Re: Tune the Studio Piano & a Poster

[mizkit]

oh, cover art poster is a good idea. i should've thought of that. :)

[chrysoula]

Argument to use as tiebreaker: my 11yo is on such a world map/worldbuilding-appendix right now. Plus presumably you already have that stuff in some form?

[mizkit]

There's stuff on the naming scheme, but otherwise there's actually surprisingly little worldbuilding stuff written down. :)

What I want

[ext_4801858]

Not necessarily as a reward. I understand that writers make the names of their characters fit their world and often don't have any relation to English. I understand they have more than 3 characters (tongue in cheek) to make the story more interesting and that lots of things happen. But my old brain just can't keep them straight any more.... unless it's a series and even then I have problems. It would be SO helpful if there was an ALPHABETICAL list of characters, with a short description of how they relate, at the end of a book. They don't have to be spoiler notes, just enough to be able to look and see where they fit in the cast. Sometimes I take notes just so I can keep the characters straight. Not your books, but other books, I never get past the first chapter because it's clear I'll never keep them straight.

Re: What I want

[mizkit]

As soon as I started thinking about this, I realized why, when authors DO put a cast of characters in, they don't do it alphabetically. It's because the "how they relate" aspect is so much easier to do from a "these people are all part of house Z, these ones are part of house Y" than to say Character X is from House Y, friends with characters A & B, and enemies of Q & D."

Hm. I'll have to think about it some more. Thanks for the idea!

Re: What I want

[amberley]

I find a non-spoilery Dramatis Personae very helpful, especially in big series where I wonder "Who was that, again?" I find them most useful if sorted by character height, but alphabetically or by grouping is OK too.

Thanks for posting here, plus a ?

[dawnd]

LJ helpfully told me you'd posted here, which is great. I see that you, like many, have fled Our Russian Overlords for DW. I've been hanging out more in DW recently because I have some other friends who have made that switch. I am there as DawnD, just like here. (In case you want to re-friend me there as well

RE: Thanks for posting here, plus a ?

[dawnd]

Oh jeeze, in the whole LJ thing, I somehow missed previously who you actually are! LOL. I LOVED your Walker Papers series, and also your stuff about The Old Races.

I am still interested in the International Consortium, if you take new members who aren't like, big name authors n stuff. And you'd still be welcome to join our little tiny group, though I have to say, it's little n tiny, and not JUST for writers, so may not be of interest. Still, once I get over my embarrassment, we'd totally welcome new members. Like you, or anyone. :)

Re: Thanks for posting here, plus a ?

[mizkit]

Aww, I'm glad you liked them! &heart;

Apparently the International Consortium didn't get very far, because while I remember mentioning it, it doesn't seem to have kept up. Maybe I *should* join yours... :)