Well, it’s finished. The month-long campaign to fund my autobiographical comic book “My Japanese Husband Thinks I’m Crazy” on Kickstarter.com is finally done. After spanning 32 days and achieving 200% funding, I can easily say the project was a success. So what now? Now, I put the final touches on the book, send it off to my copywriter (because my spelling and grammar is awful), and wait 2-3 weeks to get the money from Kickstarter. Once I have the money and finish with the final touches on the book, I will send it off to the publisher. I am self-publishing (hence the need for crowd-funding), so I’m in charge of all the “little stuff” like ISBN numbers, copyrights, formatting, fact-checking, and all those other little things I didn’t even realize factored into whether a book is successful or not. I expect formatting and troubleshooting the layout will take another week. Once it’s perfect (or I just give up and say “good enough”), I can order sample proofs, check what the book looks like in print, make the necessary changes, re-check the new proofs, and send books to every single one of your lovely and wonderful people who supported this project. If you missed [...]
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