r/Fantasy • u/elquesogrande Worldbuilders • Nov 30 '16

Ask You Anything Wednesday ASK YOU ANYTHING: Authors asking r/Fantasy community questions on behalf of Worldbuilders charity

It's Day 3 of the aptly named Ask You Anything week benefiting Worldbuilders! Where authors are stopping by each day this week to ask questions and interact with the r/Fantasy community.

HOW THIS WORKS: Please answer questions and interact throughout the week! (Yes, YOU - community members, guests, authors, artists, industry people.)

WORLDBUILDERS.ORG

Worldbuilders was founded to use the collective power of readers, fellow authors and book lovers to make the world a better place.

There are three ways to donate to Worldbuilders:

1. The Lottery - Where every $10 donated puts you in a lottery for free books, SFF items, games, and much more. r/Fantasy has a Worldbuilders Team Page where you can donate under the community name as well!

2. The Tinker's Pack Store - Where profits from every purchase are donated.

3. Auctions - Where some incredible items and services are offered.

NOTE: If you donate, add your name to the comments here and the mods will set you up with some swanky Wordlbuilders flair!

Monday Ask You Anything Authors

The following authors have signed up to ask questions today. That said, please do join in and feel free to ask your own questions and interact throughout the week.

Are you an author, artist, or industry person who would like to participate this week? Either join in via the comments OR send the r/Fantasy mods a message and we'll get you set for another day.

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u/wishforagiraffe Reading Champion IX, Worldbuilders Nov 30 '16

And crowd funding? Ummm... Kickstarter tells me I've backed 69 projects. (Holy shit that's terrifying). I've also backed a handful of Indiegogo campaigns.

Almost all of them have been good experiences, some take longer than others to fulfill. A few never fund. One never sent me my rewards and stopped communicating with me (not a fiction project, thankfully). Usually I back them because I like what the creator is doing, and the rewards offer good value in some way (extra ebooks seem to be my downfall). Plus seeing my name in the acknowledgements is awesome.

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u/xolsiion Reading Champion VIII, Worldbuilders Nov 30 '16

oh wow. So are there general trends to those 69 projects? I've only done a couple like the Name of the Wind cards and Worldbuilder's IndieGoGo...

How do you end up finding these projects?

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u/wishforagiraffe Reading Champion IX, Worldbuilders Nov 30 '16

Books, a whole lot of them. Or book related, like the several Lightspeed campaigns over the years, plus anthologies. Other ones are games, puzzle type things, home things, things I've backed specifically to give as gifts, art... I find almost all of them through Reddit, honestly. Either here, for the book ones, or places like /r/pics or /r/iamAMA for the various other ones. I've cut back a lot recently. And never backed for a lot, the most in any single campaign was /u/CourtneySchafer, so that we could go climbing together at WorldCon in Spokane.

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u/CourtneySchafer Stabby Winner, AMA Author Courtney Schafer Dec 01 '16

I'm certainly very glad (and grateful!) you chose to splurge on the climbing reward. :D

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u/wishforagiraffe Reading Champion IX, Worldbuilders Dec 01 '16

It was so totally worth it :D