Anybody Here In The Publishing Business?

Here’s the thing.

Those of us who are writers in this community want nothing to do with traditional publishing anymore. We’re sick of the gate keeping, and we’re sick of their woke SJW agenda that is putting out nothing but garbage now. At this point, I personally don’t care what anyone from traditional legacy publishing would have to say about anything.

This is the conversation I started about how we need to get away from traditional legacy publishing: Calling my fellow Novelists…We need our own Comicsgate

I believe the Comicsgate model of direct to customer is the future, because 1) why would you want anyone but you to own a piece of your IP?, 2) sticking with traditional legacy publishing would mean you have no control over how your IP is used, 3) the Gate Keeping Agents are bullshit artists who are the perfect example of failed artists who “can’t” trying to direct and control actual artists.

But one has to not only create a good product, but you have to earn an audience. To build that audience, you have to get out there and be your own publicity machine, which means, right now, being entertaining on YouTube with a channel. I’m doing my damnedest right now to fight through the YouTube algorithm, and I am committed to it, but even if My Channel finds any sort of traction going forward, I know I cannot do it alone, which is why I believe in creating a Comicsgate like network where everyone, as Jon Malin says, grabs an oar and helps get us where we need to be.

So check out my thread. We cannot count on the shit eating legacy publishing to do anything for us. We have to do it ourselves.

• This reply was modified 3 years, 8 months ago by Roas.

I went under “About” on Clownfish TV and couldn’t find an E-Mail. If it’s no inconvenience, would you mind being a little more specific? Also, what does EVS stand for?

Ethan Van Sciver, of ComicArtistsProSecrets, is the pioneer of crowd funding comic books and the template for all of us who plan on crowd funding our IPs in the future. He will likely not respond to you, because his email is for business purposes only. The best thing to do is to watch his live streams and pay attention to how he sells himself and others for crowd funding. Everything I’ve learned I learned over the past almost three years watching him.

EVS would probably not answer because he’s a busy dude and would not likely see it.

Also, EVS is a comics guy, not a writer of books. While his crowd funding methods present a good framework for everyone, he would not have any real suggestions on how to crowd fund a novel outside of build a base on social media first. So because he has no experience selling novels, he would basically believe he has no real advice to give.

As I’ve said, if you want to learn a good framework for crowd funding, just watch his streams when he’s selling his own or shilling other Comicsgaters. It is especially educational when he’s starting a new campaign.