Why Does Reckless Press Need a Patreon?
Well really it
comes down to some personal gains, to help my family with rent and bills, but Reckless
Press needs a Patreon to publish our first book and start to collect stories
for our first literary journal, podcast equipment, promotion to get authors
involved in Reckless Press, overhead, etc. But most of all to be able to focus
on Reckless Press full time.
Concept Behind Reckless Press: What we do is make it so that the
author owns their works and reaps
the rewards financially. How we do that is that authors get paid 60% of the
profits after office fees (printing fees, editing, promotion etc.) and we take
40% to cover the fees and we donate 5% off our side of the profits to the
charity or non-profit of the authors choice. It’s a way for us and our authors
to help our community and to better the world.
We would like to be able to increase our donations over the years by
expanding Reckless Press into podcasting and other media arts. We will also have
a yearly literary journal that is on a selected topic (this year’s topic is
Science Fiction) and a majority of the proceeds will go to a charity and we
have a writing contest and there will titles given to our top three writers and
we hope to expand to having prizes in the future.
What I Personally Want To Be Able To Do: The main
goal is for me to leave my fulltime job and to be able to work on Reckless Press fulltime. To focus on my writing and help find authors for Reckless Press to
publish and to start working on the editing and podcast side of Reckless Press
as well. I want to be able to turn this little idea into a successful and
profitable business. I know that it will mean hard work and that I will have to
really focus on getting to write and work done, but I think I’m up for this
challenge and want to do the work.
Why We Would Like To Hit A Goal Of $6,000 A Month: Mostly this amount will go towards making
Reckless Press a reality and for me to have the ability to leave my full time job. This money will go to help with mortgage, bills, website, marketing and
publishing costs.
What Patrons Get: Exclusive essays, photos from photo
project, copy of literary journal and first book that we publish. Video updates
and exclusive podcast content just for Patrons There will also be overviews of
scripts I’m working on and updates of other projects and first peek at our
website.
I will be releasing What's On TCM every week from here on out on Sundays and will be doing three Patron posts a week and Wednesday in review. There will be more information about what my book will be on in the coming weeks. More than likely it will be a collection of essays from Patreon posts.
