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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Juxtapozbliss" data-source="post: 9432816" data-attributes="member: 7042149">Hello. Just thought I'd join the thread given the topic. I've self-published two novels and a collection of short writing. I won a literary award for my second novel, A Greater Monster--received a Gold Medal as Outstanding Book of the Year in the Independent Publisher Book Awards the year that I published it, which was 2011. I'm generally an experimental writer. My first novel was an absurdist satire. Wacky and goofy. My second novel is "fantasy," but I describe it as a psychedelic fairytale. It's somewhat like Alice in Wonderland meets Naked Lunch. My third book, The Kickstarter Letters, was published by a small press in Chicago--it was a collection flash fiction, essays and stream of consciousness. It was released as an ebook and a limited edition of 100 handmade hardback books. I published my first novel when self-publishing was still a very new and rare thing. 1999/2000 time period. I funded my second novel and that third collection with Kickstarter projects. For A Greater Monster, I raised $4,628 on Kickstarter, which paid for a very high quality print run of 1000 copies--plus paid for my book designer, my illustrator and the music composer that I hired. A Greater Monster is also multimedia, with 75 pages of illustrations in it, some graphic design, as well as some original music and animation linked to scenes in the book that is hosted online. The Kickstarter Letters was also funded with a Kickstarter project, I raised $2,756. I've sold about 1500 copies of my first novel and about 2000 of my second. The Kickstarter Letters hasn't sold much at all. At any rate, that's my experience! My books can be purchased on my website or on Amazon. First novel, Death by Zamboni: [URL unfurl="true"]http://amzn.to/DeathByZamboni[/URL]Second novel, A Greater Monster: <a href="http://amzn.to/greatermonster" target="_blank">http://amzn.to/greatermonster</a>Last collection, The Kickstarter Letters: <a href="https://bit.ly/KickLettersEbook" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/KickLettersEbook</a>After all that writing, I began spending more time making art instead of writing. I just found I enjoyed drawing more than writing so I switched over to that. And then of course there's gamemastering...which I picked up much more seriously about 7 years ago and have dedicated most of my creative energy to that.</blockquote>

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