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has anyone heard of kickstarter. It's a website that uses crowd funding in order to get a project completed. You say you want to make £1,000 for your project, and you can offer rewards - such as a signed copy of the book or a bookmark etc.
There seems to be a lot of cool stuff there - Arts, crafts, comics, games. I'm considering putting my project up and see if I am successful.
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Go for it, TWOTM!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1954394992/the-writings-of-the-moon-a-new-beginning-collectio
Self-publishing can be achieved on a zero budget - what is the £500 being used for?
He raised a fantastic amount, way more than he had expected to. He offered a quirky marketing strategy - postcards sent from the writing research location, each with an individual note from him, with the idea that they'll be worth a fair bit in the future!
How much you donated determined whether your postcard came with a lipstick mark, a whisky stain, a bullet hole (and yes he chummed up a friend at a shooting range) and so on. Great idea and proved very effective for him, although he has been published previously.
I know of several that have funded the various elements of a book and it can be very successful. At least one has won an award for their book and others have become best-sellers in their Amazon category.