New Year's Resolutions

[kippurbird]

Kippur's New Year's Resolutions


The Ten Exceptionally Unreasonable Ones

1. Become knighted (or whatever you get for being a girl... I wonder what you get if you're transgendered...)
2. Meet President Obama
3. Become a break-out best selling novelist
4. Get a really nifty big scanner.
5. Get a horse.
6. Go to Antarctica
7. Go to Australia
8. Get my non-fiction book published
9. Get on one of those talk shows (just not Oprah)
10. Get a best selling comic book written.


The Ten Somewhat Unreasonable Ones

1. Get my novel published
2. Get a paper published in a scholarly journal
3. Get paid for speaking at a conference
5. Go to Alaska
6. Speak at Comic Con. (That reminds me... I need to start thinking about something scholarly for the scholarly track)
7. Get some of the people I know from the Internets to come and visit.
8. Get a hybrid car.
9. Become exceptionally Internet Famous
10. Get my comic book published.

The Ten Reasonable Goals

1. Get some more articles published.
2. Get a costume done in time for Comic Con
3. Get a short story published (more is better)
4. DM my game well.
5. Finish my third novel and start on my fourth. (Thank you Nano!)
6. Get the agent.
7. Clean up my NaNo novel and send it out.
8. Go up to Canada and meet canadianevil
9. Get a gold and paper dragon.
10. Write some short stories to get sent out!

Comments

[authoressarktos.livejournal.com]

8. Go up to Canada and meet canadianevil and authoressarktos.

Now it's complete.

[kippurbird.livejournal.com]

*laughs*

Where in Canada do you live?

[christinaathena.livejournal.com]

It's still called knighting for women, but the title is Dame instead of Sir.

[christinaathena.livejournal.com]

You beat me to it! Darn my checking before hitting post. :-)

[thelittlebudgie.livejournal.com]

Ahem.

8. Go up to Canada and meet canadianevil and authoressarktos and "lj user="thelittlebudgie">.

I would not suggest the e-fame. =P It seems like most of the e-famous people I know of are more e-infamous than anything.

[authoressarktos.livejournal.com]

Southern Ontario~

[oozaru-angel.livejournal.com]

kwfkfnawdalee; Colbert icon!!!

[the-norseman.livejournal.com]

And you have to change your name to Edna I think.

[palmer-kun.livejournal.com]

8. Go up to Canada and meet canadianevil

*ahem*

1. Get my novel published
10. Get my comic book published.

Perhaps you mean "sold" rather than published? The timeframe on publication is a long one, it can easily be 2-3 years from selling a book to it actually being published... less than 2 years is pretty quick all told.

Having known 2 authors (scott_lynch and seanan_mcguire) fairly personally, I'm familiar with the time frames involved. Seanan sold her trilogy last April, for instance. As of November, she still did not have a publication date, but it "should be sometime in 2009".

4. DM my game well.

You can always ask for assistance.

[kippurbird.livejournal.com]

... *sighs*


Well notice the novels were both under unreasonable and semi-unreasonable goals? As for comic books, they're a lot easier to get published as you can self publish them

As for DM'ing? Oh, I plan to as you! A lot.

[alexseanchai]

*eyes sporkings* Aren't you already Internet famous?

[j-ninjacat.livejournal.com]

XD

[j-ninjacat.livejournal.com]

I count Kippur as one of my Internetz Idols. *nods*

[palmer-kun.livejournal.com]

...self-publishing comics is... not recommended.
And a good way to throw away a lot of money.

Broken record maybe, but I have a friend who was going down that very path... ariotstorm. The process pretty much bankrupted her, and the first issue never actually even made it into print.

She had the advantage of actually already working in the industry - she's an artist for Marvel Comics!

The economics suck too. You need to have a cover price of like $4 in order to actually earn something like 30 cents per copy sold after paying printing and distribution.

Printing a 32 page B&W booklet on standard paper runs about 25 cents a copy in a 10,000 copy run. Make it only 1000 copies and the cost is more like 50+ cents. Color costs about twice as much.

A cover? A light cardstock cover (like D&D published adventures have) runs 5 cents for B&W, 10 cents for color... per copy.

So you're now looking at a 1000 copy print run of a 32 page full color comic with cover. This will cost YOU $1.10 per copy. Lets tack on a modest 10 cents profit to that (for easy math). Assuming you want it distributed through comic/etc stores, then you're dealing with Diamond Distributors, who charge 70% of the cover price as the retailing fee.
So now the cover price is $4... when most comics are around $2.99.

Your thousand copies cost $1100 to print (conservatively). You get back $1.20 per copy sold. You need to sell 917 copies to just break even. Sell all 1000, and you've earned... a hundred bucks.

Self-publishing comics sucks big floppy donkey dick, as ariotstorm found out. For practicality, you're much better off with either publishing as an e-book, or doing it as a webcomic.

Eh... I don't know how useful I'll be as a DM resource. I've only been running games for 23 years.

[kunenk.livejournal.com]

I know I didn't expect a link to them to turn up on the RPGClassics Agora.

[kunenk.livejournal.com]

9. Get a gold and paper dragon.
…I could help? I could prob'ly breed you a gold, if you'd like.

[the-norseman.livejournal.com]

Shouldn't that be "Self-publishing isn't recommended," full stop?

[kippurbird.livejournal.com]

Actually there isn't a stigma attached to self-publishing comic books.

[kippurbird.livejournal.com]

What is RPGClassics Agora?

[kippurbird.livejournal.com]

That'd be spiffy! =D


*edit* I can't believe I used the word "spiffy".

[kippurbird.livejournal.com]

Well, I mean more, like news people take notice of me and interview me because I'm so awesome like. =D

[kunenk.livejournal.com]

The forums for the RPG Classics site. Main site's at http://www.rpgclassics.com/, and the Agora at http://agora.rpgclassics.com/.

[the-norseman.livejournal.com]

You should become a weird eccentric with a bathtub shaped like a giant bubbling black cauldron!

[kippurbird.livejournal.com]

:P