Via Twitter, a guy named Michael Pokocky sent me a link to an article titled 1000 True Fans (use your Back button after each link to return here), which lays out a model by which a creator (that would be you) can make a decent living AS a creator by connecting directly with your fans. Not millions of fans. Just a few fans.
Having read it, I realized that my business model for Rebel Tales was designed from the beginning to help create True Fans for the writers whom I publish—to offer more of these writers than just their writing to the folks who love their stories, and to permit the people who love their work to reward them directly.
But the article also offers immediate, useful advice for you as the novelist or short story writer who is looking toward publication, and who has taken my long list of personal ‘write or starve, then write AND starve’ anecdotes to heart.
This is incredible advice, an eye-opening way to look at your writing and at your career, and a way to consider working pro publishing in with other publishing.
So my question to you is, how are you going to use this? Brainstorm this, and we’ll figure out ways you can make this happen, and how Thinking Sideways can help you. This is the publishing model of the future, already in progress.
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