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Chapbook 2 of 52: Deadbeats

Funny thing about the Chapbook challenge: it feels as though I’m always behind, given that I’m only posting about the second chapbook now, but that’s largely because the folks who see them first are signed up to my Patreon (where Chapbook number 4 just dropped and I’m preparing for number 5). It’s also because print is slower to set-up than an ebook, and the print editions of Deadbeats only landed on our doorstep yesterday. It’s now up in the new Eclectic Projects Store in addition to all good bookstores.

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Chapbook 1 of 52: Briar Day

As mentioned in yesterday’s post, I’m attempting to publish 52 chapbooks throughout 2022. You can read a little more about it here. Today, let’s talk a little about the first cab off the rank: Available in ebook from all great bookstores right now and in print next week, but you can get it as a patron bonus if you sign up for my Eclectic Projects Patreon. Now, for those who like such things, a peek behind the scenes. Stress Testing An Idea Following up on yesterday’s thoughts on “Just In Case” publishing, I thought it might be useful to peek below the surface and look at what monetising a project like this really looks like (while also stress testing some of the assumptions in Dean Wesley Smith’s challenge, which provoked this challenge) From my perspective, there’s three core costs associated with a publishing project: The cost of actually writing and editing the work. The cost of getting the book to

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52 Chapbooks: A 2022 Challenge

Back at the tail end of 2020, Dean Wesley Smith laid out a challenge to aspiring indie writers who had a short story back list: publish 52 short stories over 2021. One of the key details in his write-up is that the focus is publishing rather than writing. As he put it: A lot of writers I know have collections published which have stories in them that are not yet published stand-alone. Those would be easy to mine for stories for the challenge. A lot of writers I know have unpublished stories sitting, waiting. Heck, a bunch of writers did the write 52 stories in 52 weeks challenge and haven’t got most of those out yet. POINT #1… So to get to 52 stories, you might have to write a few a month, but most writers have a bunch to start this challenge. I’d been thinking about that challenge a lot as I wrote up my notes on making good