From SF SignalMIND MELD: What Crowd Funding SF/F Novels Means for Authors and Publishers

[deborahjross]

dancing_horse and other writers hold forth on crowdsourcing:

"To use a severely overused word, this is a game-changer. For writers with established midlist careers and a dedicated fan following, it is possible to bypass the agents and publishers altogether and go direct to the readers. The readers judge, up front and in person, whether they want to throw their money in the pot—and if so, how much. ...What it does that has not been possible in all the time I’ve been in this business is let a small group of readers and fans support writers whose work they want to read. It’s a godsend for writers whose publishers have let them go for lack of sales; who have written series that were cut before completion; who have written projects that don’t fit the larger schematics—too odd or niche or cross-genre— but that do indeed have an audience waiting for just that kind of thing. Like space opera by a Female Fantasy Writer who isn’t a twentysomething."

MIND MELD: What Crowd Funding SF/F Novels Means for Authors and Publishers - SF Signal