Why I Love Kickstarter

Over the next two weeks, you’ll be hearing a lot about Kickstarter and my Charlotte Mason’s Living Math project. I’m proud of the book, and I want to spread the news as far and wide as possible.

You’ll love how Charlotte Mason’s Living Math transforms your children’s experience of math, awakening their imagination about numbers, shapes, and patterns.

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 Charlotte Mason’s Living Math book 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 a special stretch-goal edition with full-color art.

Plus, because you’re buying direct, I can offer a bit of a discount over the recommended retail price.

(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 extra treats like one of my favorite printable math activity books. What fun!

And you can order some cool math merchandise to inspire your family’s math adventures. Or pick up some of my earlier books you may have missed, like a Math Games Bundle 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 an extra appendix, full-color art, and more mathy fun, 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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