Here's a new video I've made to promote the Prince Of Denmark Street Kickstarter. We'll see whether it makes a difference.
Sun 31 May - Kickstarter launches
Weds Jun 3 - Kickstarter reaches its £750 target
Sunday Jun 7 - Passes the £1000 mark
(As I noted in February, Findlay Macbeth reached £500 in 2 days, but after 6 was stuck on £711. It reached a final figure of £1308 after 30 days)
PODS Kickstarter at time of writing (Tues Jun 9) £1163
Weds Jun 10 £1241
Thurs Jun 11 £1372
Fri Jun 12 £1422
Sat Jun 13 £1438
Tues Jun 16 I tweet:
How publicity works: The Kickstarter for my new comic was going up by about £50 a day up to Friday night. On Saturday the Clevedon Literary Festival went live with a video by me on it, plus I was on Radio Bristol on Saturday morning talking about my books. Since then the Kickstarter has not gone up by a penny!
Within 3 hours it has gone up to £1538. By 7.30pm it's at £1617
Weds Jun 17 £1641
Thurs Jun 18 £1686
Sun Jun 21 £1713
Mon Jun 22 £1737
Tues Jun 23 £1753
Thurs Jun 24 - Hoy! With 4 days to go, we've dropped from £1753 to £1740. Then down to £1720! Before rallying and going up to £1790.
Fri Jun 26 - £1840
Sat Jun 27 - £1920
Sun Jun 28 - £1975
Mon Jun 29 - £2031
Tues Jun 30 - with 2 hours to go, down to £2011
Hooray - Kickstarter closes with 100 supporters and £2024 pledged.
Thurs June 5th - First 6 page treatment written of new book (at that point called The Midsummer Night's Team)
Friday June 5th - Wrote 2nd draft treatment of new book
Sunday June 7th - 3rd and 4th drafts, after 2 lots of notes from Steve, and initial notes from Hev. Draft is now 9 pages, title is now The Midsummer Nights Dream Team.
Thurs Jun 11 - Characters designed. All 21 of them!
Fri 12, Sat 13 - First writing done. 13 pages biro scribble.
Tues 16 - First draft biro script finished, 35 pages.
Tues Jun 2 - Bought ISBN numbers for PODS (and 9 spares)
Friday June 5th - PODS gets a plug on comicon.com
Tues Jun 9 - These 8 agents all emailed. Most of these 15 agents emailed.
And most of these 65 agents!
First reply Sam Hiyate. No from Diana Fox, Bernadette Baker, Linda Camacho.
Findlay Macbeth sales on Amazon - as of June 9, 13 paperbacks sold, 6 ebooks.
June 9 - First two books via Neilsen (both for Gardners the book distributors).
Jun 10 - Two Findlay Macbeth packages are returned undelivered because their labels fell off!
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