I’m pondering just how to go about self-publishing “War With The Deep Ones,” the collection of Lovecraftian tales I wrote a bit short of a year ago. It would be simplicity itself to simply upload the Word document to Amazon and publish it that way, but my prior experience with that has been… a bit disappointing. The trick as with most things is publicity, and self promotion has always been one of my lesser attributes.
A novel is by itself incredibly dull, graphically. Pages and pages of text. To give it visual appeal, it needs good cover art, something outside of my skill set. But it seems to me that a Kickstarter could be used to contract an artist to create some good cover art… and if sufficiently successful, perhaps pen & ink drawings within.
So… is this sort of thing a decent idea? And if so… what sort of “extras” would fit in here, what sort of target should be aimed at, and, not inconsequentially, how does one go about getting artists? There is a print shop not far from here that makes some high quality books, both paperback and hardback; they’re pricey, but they’re Made In The USA, which is nice. Seems to me that the basic project would aim at a paperback with cover art, with interior art if the Kickstarter gets to some high level of funding.
Any thoughts, comments, suggestions welcomed. Another stupid pointless doomed to fail idea, or might there be value here?