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7 Tips to Successfully Crowdfund a Cookbook

January 19, 2016 by diannejacob 24 Comments

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

Filed Under: Self Publishing Tagged With: crowdfunded cookbooks, how to crowdfund a cookbook, self-published cookbooks

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