Why I Love Kickstarter

Over the several weeks, you’ll be hearing a lot about Kickstarter and my Math Journaling Adventures project. I’m proud of the books, and I want to spread the news as far and wide as possible.

You’ll appreciate how these books make it easy to weave playful math into your family’s schedule. Just open to any page for a puzzle, activity, game, investigation, or other creative prompt.

But I know there are many readers who don’t know much about crowdfunding. Some people even think that a campaign like this is just online begging.

So I want to share what I totally love about Kickstarter and how much it offers you, the customer:

(1) It’s the “New World” of publishing.

In the old days, traditional publishing companies paid writers in advance to write the books the publisher wanted to see. In this new world, you get to choose and support the writers creating books you want to read.

(2) Backers get their books early.

I’ll publish the Math Journaling Adventures books anyway, even if no one supports my project. But through Kickstarter, I can send copies to backers several months before the books are available through normal bookstores.

And I can offer you books the regular bookstores won’t carry, like the deluxe spiral-bound edition with heavy 170gsm pages that lay nicely flat for easy writing.

Plus, if you back the campaign on launch day, you can catch a great deal with the Earlybird discounts.

(3) You get a bundle of cool special perks.

When you buy at a standard bookstore, or even at my publisher’s online store, you get a copy of the book. Period. When you support my work on Kickstarter, I can send you all sorts of bonuses like printable teaching tips, a poster, and digital swag. What fun!

And you can order some cool math merchandise to inspire your student’s math adventures. Choose either the “Team Alpha” or “Team Delta” design to match your Math Journaling Adventures logbook.

Or pick up a Playful Math Starter Bundle for yourself, featuring books targeted at your child’s age and skill level.

(4) You can help make a better book.

Once the project passes its relatively low funding goal and moves into Stretch Goal territory, each additional pledge improves the final book.

It’s a collaborative project. Depending on how high our funding goes, you’ll be helping to pay for up to nine additional 2-page journaling prompts in each book, at no additional cost to you.

Does all that sound good to you?

Then I hope you’ll join me as we take this book over the finish line, covering its production costs in advance of publication and spreading the idea of playful math to a whole world of new readers.

I’ll see you behind the backer wall!

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