Making Plans of Scribbles and Scrolls…

[scribblemyname]

Thoughts here, please. I’m working away at setting up project and production goals for the year and I feel utterly torn. Do you have rathers?

1. I thought about setting up a subscription website with everything I have available—fiction, poetry, etc.—normally for sale available to subscribers. Say $5/mo.
2. I also thought about doing an email subscription fiction thing, like Bruce Holland does here.
3. I thought about hosting a quarterly fishbowl, where readers can prompt stories/poetry and read their own while I save the rest for submission or they can sponsor those stories for free publication.
4. I thought about doing a print books subscription thing like Dean Wesley Smith does here.
5. I thought about doing a web serial updating upon donations (don’t think I have the audience for that).

Do any of these appeal to you? Would you be interested in any of these?

Originally published at Liana Mir. You can comment here or there.

Comments

[in-the-blue.livejournal.com]

All I know for sure is that 1) Bruce Holland Rogers is a really nice person and that 2) $10/year is a lot less than $5/month. I guess it all depends on your readership -- how big it is, how deep their pockets are, and so on. I think to myself, $10 a year is affordable. $60 is less so, even though $5/month is basically the cost of a coffee at Starbucks.

What do you want to do? I'm of the opinion that here anyway, in journaling communities, people tend not to pay for the right to read. They love getting stuff for free, though. If you don't have the audience for #5, you might well not have the audience for #1 or #2 either. Or like Dean Wesley Smith does either. Selling work independently is a difficult thing! I'll be all kinds of curious to see what you decide to do, and without any judgment on it either.

[scribblemyname]

Well, the big difference with #1 is that literally everything would be available during that month, which is why it has a time limit attached, whereas with #2, you get only what's sent out when you're subscribed.

I have thought about audience, but I'm also aware that there's enough samplers with #1 to grow it more easily on proof of delivery and that email subscriptions were at least twice the launching pad for authors with almost no audience yet.

So thoughty... Quite.

Thank you for the input. :queueing up in thoughtyness files: