Author Kathy Strahs raised more than $21,000 on Kickstarter to publish The 8×8 Cookbook. The project was named a Staff Pick, boosting its visibility.
A guest post by Kathy Strahs
Over the past 18 months, both first-time and established authors learned to crowdfund a cookbook on Kickstarter, and raised good money. Here’s a sample:
- Leanne Brown, Good and Cheap: $144,681
- Hank Shaw, Buck, Buck, Moose: $93,763
- Emily Kaiser Thelin and Andrea Nguyen: UNFORGETTABLE: $91,465
- Anna Watson Carl, The Yellow Table Cookbook: $65,815
- Leslie Jonath and 18 Reasons, Feed Your People: $40,805
Mine was one. After writing The Ultimate Panini Press Cookbook with a traditional publisher in 2013, I published The 8×8 Cookbook this past fall by establishing a publishing company, Burnt Cheese Press, and crowdfunding my cookbook on Kickstarter. I raised [Read more…] about 7 Tips to Successfully Crowdfund a Cookbook