Kickstarter
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Kicking & Screaming: Week #6
Welcome back the blog mini-series where I write about my experience running a Kickstarter campaign to help release an album. This is the final installment: the round up. I’m relieved and overjoyed to say the project was fully funded and…
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Kicking & Screaming: Week #5
Welcome back to the blog mini-series where I write about my experience running a Kickstarter campaign to help release an album. At the time of writing, there’s just under a week to go with the campaign. At the time of…
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Chief O’Brien on Kickstarter
If you love Rumpus contributor Jon Adams‘s webcomic Chief O’Brien at Work but hate the hassle of using the Internet, you can now get the tales of Chief O’Brien’s workplace angst (including never-before-seen strips!) in a big book. Support Adams’s efforts on Kickstarter and get cool…
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Kicking & Screaming: Week #4
Welcome back to the blog mini-series where I write about my experience running a Kickstarter campaign to help release an album. Before I started working on my campaign, I asked friends what they thought about Kickstarter. I was kind of…
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Kicking & Screaming: Week #3
Welcome back to the blog mini-series where I write about my experience running a Kickstarter campaign to help release an album. Wooo! Things are going amazing! We’re more than 2/3 of the way there and it’s been less than two…
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Kicking & Screaming: Week #2
Welcome back to the blog mini-series where I write about my experience running a Kickstarter campaign to help release an album. As much preparation as I have done for this beast, which I managed to drag out over six long…
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Kicking & Screaming: Week #1
Today marks the launch of my first Kickstarter campaign and this blog mini-series, where I’ll be writing about the experience as it unfolds. I’m attempting to raise money to release an album. I feel strongly about this album. I love…
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The Saturday Rumpus Interview: Ijeoma Oluo
Ijeoma Oluo discusses feminism, coloring, badass women, and being a troller of trolls.
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Help Keep Up Belt
Belt Magazine (whose Editor-in-Chief happens to be the Rumpus’s own Martha Bayne) is the only magazine that publishes independent journalism about the Rust Belt—and it pays all of its contributors a fair wage. In order to keep paying its writers…
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Literature’s Crowdfunded Future
From small presses to literary journals, crowdfunding has grown into a major source of money for publishing. Authors are even turning to services like Kickstarter to fund their booktours, like Sarah Gerard, author of Binary Star. Her successful campaign raised…
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McSweeney’s Seeks Donations
The 18-year-old independent publisher McSweeney’s is looking to raise some money for a new wave of projects. The publisher of Timothy McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, The Believer, The Organist podcast, and more has launched a Kickstarter campaign, with plenty of rewards (including book…
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Redefining the Commons
A library is rarely ever just a library, often evolving alongside the community it serves. The Lacuna Project is taking this idea literally by building a library made entirely of books for this year’s Bay Area Book Festival. Festival-goers will…