When a new Holmes book comes out, what we look for is something interesting like Moriarty or A Slight Trick of the Mind. Does anybody want yet more formulaic adventures of the dear old bod? Even his creator was sick of those. And even for the fans – well, think of Sherlock Holmes. Most of the people we’ll be talking to would never have heard of Fabled Lands. I started this particular discussion off by saying that, given the twenty-year gap, we could hardly sail in with, “Here’s book 7” like nothing had happened. If there are answers to the Kickstarter Paradox, they can only be found by a group of people proposing and debating different strategies, refining the best ideas, and all getting behind an agreed plan. Paul Gresty, who has volunteered to write the thing for nothing but love and praise, may yet come to his senses and focus on paid work instead. Megara may decide to run a Kickstarter campaign for something else this year. (Short version: even if you raise $50,000, after printing and shipping all those hardbacks you might have less than $5000 to pay for writing, art, editing and typesetting.) So we're still just at the discussion stage, figuring out how it could be made to work. The problems I've already cited with Kickstarter haven't gone away. Perhaps I should add a word of caution here before I overstimulate the hopes of FL aficionados. This all came up recently in a discussion with the chaps at Megara Entertainment, who may be running a Kickstarter for a new Fabled Lands book later this year. If you’re going to see the next movie, it’s a dead cert you already saw the earlier ones. That’s because those series have already broken through to the real mainstream. Toy Story and Star Wars movies don’t mind adding the weight of a Roman numeral to the poster. If you number a series too conspicuously, the law of diminishing returns soon kicks in. If somebody saw “James Bond book 5” on the cover and hadn’t read the first four, they wouldn’t bother to pick it up. The publishers didn’t care because they already had me hooked it was the non-fans they needed to attract. This occasionally irritated me when, in younger days, I had to look inside to find which Elric or Ellery Queen book to read next. The difference? Probably an extra 50% at box office.īook publishers have long known that you don’t put numbers on the covers of a book series. When Sylvester Stallone brought back his two most iconic characters a few years back, the movies in question were technically Rocky VI and Rambo IV, but they were released as Rocky Balboa and Rambo.
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