The Creative Download
The Creative Download: Trends in Publishing
Reflecting on 2023 and Anticipating 2024's Breakthroughs in Publishing.
Publishing
Explore the forefront of independent publishing. From novels and zines to academic texts, this category celebrates the written word in all its forms.
Creator Tips
A Guide to Getting Your Books Purchased and Promoted in Libraries
How to Win over Librarians and Broaden the Reach of your Work.
Newsroom
Making Audiobook Rewards Easier with Findaway Voices by Spotify
Crowdfund for your book with Kickstarter. Give backers their audiobook reward with Findaway Voices by Spotify.
Creator Tips
How to Create a Great Kickstarter Publishing Project Page
Tips and tricks for each element of your campaign, from choosing your funding goal to lining up creative rewards.
Creator Tips
How Brandon Sanderson’s Kickstarter Project Broke the Bookish Internet
Here's why the author's record-smashing Kickstarter campaign performed so phenomenally well.
Creator Tips
Funding Your Photobook or Art Book
Thinking of creating a photobook or art book? Here's our advice on handling budgets, printing, distribution, and more.
Comics
How To Build An Audience For Your Comic
Make good art, establish an online home base, be a generous community member, and more tips for growing an engaged following for your work.
Creator Tips
9 Creators Share Advice From Their Journeys To Help Guide Yours
Over the last several weeks, we hosted a series of small workshops for creators of color and marginalized genders in the UK, in collaboration with gal-dem magazine. Here, we open up some of the insights and advice from those sessions to all.
Publishing
How to Publish a Book
A step-by-step guide for writers who want to see their work in print.
Publishing
How to Fund a Journalism Project with Kickstarter
Ideas, examples, and advice for launching a publication, sustaining a newsroom, funding a podcast, and more.
Creator Tips
The Cost to Create a Book: Derby Life
Margot Atwell shares how she budgeted to publish her Kickstarter-funded ode to roller derby. In 2014, I had been running my roller derby website, Derbylife.com, for three years when I started to realize I couldn’t do it forever. After a lot of agonizing, I decided to focus on
Publishing
Planning Your Perfect-Sized Kickstarter Book Project
Gold-leaf fantasies and softcover realities: a comprehensive guide to planning your first Kickstarter book project by creator Elly Blue.
