How to crush it on Kickstarter
Saturday 11:00 Room 1
Presenter: Russell Nohelty, Oriana Leckert, and Monica Leonelle
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Kickstarter gives authors the ability to create the careers of their dreams by building community around their work, connecting directly with their readers, and raising much-needed funds. Join USA Today bestselling authors Russell Nohelty and Monica Leonelle, who have helped authors raise over $750,000 in the last year, and Kickstarter’s Director of Publishing & Comics Outreach Oriana Leckert as they take you through the best tips, tricks, and tactics for creating, launching, and promoting a successful crowdfunding campaign so you can crush your next Kickstarter goal
Oriana Leckert
Oriana Leckert is the Director of Publishing & Comics Outreach at Kickstarter, where she helps creators bring a marvelous array of literary projects to life. She’s written and edited for Vice, MTV News, Slate, Hyperallergic, Gothamist, Atlas Obscura, and many more. Her first book, Brooklyn Spaces: 50 Hubs of Culture and Creativity (Monacelli, 2015), grew out of a multi-year project chronicling the rise and fall of under-the-radar creative places across New York City.
Follow her at @orianabklyn on Twitter/Instagram.
Russell Nohelty
Russell Nohelty is a USA Today bestselling author, publisher, and speaker. He runs Wannabe Press(www.wannabepress.com), a small press that publishes weird books for weird people.Russell is the author of dozens of novels and graphic novelsincludingThe Godsverse Chronicles,The Obsidian SpindleSaga, and Ichabod Jones: Monster Hunter.He also edited the Cthulhu is Hard toSpell anthology series.To date, Russell Nohelty has raised over $325,000 on Kickstarter across over twenty projects.He has a very entertaining newsletter, which you can join atwww.russellnohelty.com. He lives in Los Angeleswith his wife and dogs.Social Media Links:@russellnohelty on Twitter andFacebook