Monday, November 12, 2018

Reintroduction to Reckless Press and Patreon


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.



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