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Reply Subj: Publishing and Software Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2015 at 07:05:50 pm EST (Viewed 2 times) | |||||||
Quote: No, I'm being precise in my definitions. A business plan would usually include financial projections of how the business would go, profit & loss, risk assessments on best, middle, and worst cases, and generally a lot more detail. A mission statement is a description of what you intend to do and some core values or methods. I mean the document they tend to ask for here is "Let me see your business plan". Quote: Yes, that is a problem. I'm not sure how you'll get past that.Wait for just the right time, and be patient, I guess. Quote: I suggest you start by figuring out what you estimate you'll need in time and costs, so you know the magnitude of asset you require. For example, if you think you'll need 500 man-hours, $1000 dollars of legal for registration etc., $1500 to hire somebody to get you a sales deal etc. at least that gives you some solid objectives.Generally with software I've already finished it, or have some kind of prototype - because I'm absolutely against raising money for something I have no chance of delivering. So most of the costs are actually gone already, except for advertising/marketing, where I have no idea even how to estimate it. Quote: That's a robust body of work. Since traders is probably the nearest to finish, take some stock on that one. How close to complete is the story? Would it nicely fit into a 60k word package (which equals a Createspace print edition selling at say $13 with you getting about half of that)? Would it be better as a trilogy of novellas at 20k each, selling for $2.99 apiece on Amazon kindle?What's scary is, Traders is nowhere near complete. It's just started. See why I thought maybe posting a one-chapter preview here might be interesting? World Class is also just started, but has less going on at the beginning. Quote: Returning to a previous point, when you are ready you need to get in two or three beta-readers. You ideally need one who is great at nitpicking, especially on typos and grammar, one who is not savvy in the genre who will get confused every time you make assumptions about your readers, and one who "gets" what you are doing and is a barometer for your target audience. Between the three you should get a good picture of what work needs doing on a final draft.Quote: Sometimes you can get offers like that from the folks at Goodreads or other book-discussion places. The advantage of that is that you then have some advocates and reviewers for your work when it comes out.I actually know someone who's pretty good at nit-picking, but she's not an experienced professional book editor or anything. Just a heavy reader who's picky. | |||||||
