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The Story Marketability Bundle: Add Marketing to Your Craft

Created by Monica Leonelle

Two powerful books, Story Symmetry and Editing for Marketability, get new editions that explore 50+ psychological triggers w/ examples.

Latest Updates from Our Project:

Surveys are out!
4 months ago – Fri, Aug 02, 2024 at 01:38:45 PM

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BackerKit Survey and Expected Delivery Timelines
5 months ago – Mon, Jul 08, 2024 at 09:33:34 AM

Hello!

Quick update: I'm hoping to send out the BackerKit survey this week! It still needs some updates and to go through approval. If there are any challenges with that, it may bleed into early next week. I am getting it out a little later than I had hoped because there is some new stuff on it that I've never done before, but it doesn't affect the delivery timeline a ton.

When it goes out, a lot of the digital rewards will be delivered immediately upon your filling out the survey.

The main books are still in rewrites. They will be delivered in ebook and audiobook in August/September in order to hit the October delivery on the paperbacks. As noted on the campaign, I expect to deliver by October 2024.

Note: these are expected delivery timelines. Any delays will be communicated, though I don't expect anything at the moment.

When the survey goes out, there will be a few upgrades/add-ons that you'll be able to select. I believe with the way BackerKit does it, these are one-time offers, so I wanted to let you know ahead of time:

  1. We activated 4 Story Uplevels videos as bonuses though the campaign for anyone who backed at $20 or above. If you want to upgrade to a $20 or above tier to get those bonuses, you will be able to so through the survey.
  2. There are eight videos total in the Story Uplevels mini-course. If you want to get the other four, you can add-on at $50. The course is priced much higher than that usually, but since this is a small group, I feel okay about offering this!
  3. I was looking through my workbook pages and I have about 60-70% of a Story Marketability workbook/ printable done. This is largely because it shares a lot of the same pages and lessons as Novel Writing Prep, which already has a workbook. So I'll also offer the Story Marketability workbook as an add-on for digital and print through the survey, too!

Again, you will be able to upgrade at special pricing when you fill out the survey. The special pricing is only going to be available to backers. After that, you could purchase at the regular pricing through the BackerKit store, or on retailers when the items are available there.

Hope you are having a wonderful summer so far. I'll be in touch soon!

Monica

Upcoming Campaigns

My business partner Russell Nohelty has partnered with Claire Venus to write a book about succeeding with Substack. If you are interested, they are launching the project in July on Kickstarter!

You can sign up to be notified when it launches here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/writermba/sellstack

Small Personal Update

I had some bigger plans for launching nonfiction Kickstarters this year, but I'll probably be setting those aside for at least the next six months, though it may be longer! I want to make sure everything from current campaigns is delivered on, and I want to continue to get the right support into place for running and fulfilling campaigns too. I'm simply not where I want and need to be with it yet, which I'm sure many creatives can relate to.

 My newest kiddo will be 8 months old in a few weeks, and our family schedule is finally stabilizing in terms of getting solid sleep + general time and energy management. Progress is being made, and I want to keep taking care of my family and myself + fully heal my relationship with my backers and audience. Although I hope to be able to run more campaigns in 2025/2026, it's not in the cards for the rest of 2024.

Squee! We're funded! Plus, bonuses
6 months ago – Tue, May 28, 2024 at 01:00:40 PM

Hello! Thank you so much for backing this fun campaign about story marketability. I can wait to deliver these awesome books with all of their updates!

The bonuses: We ended the campaign with 128 backers (plus a few coming in through late pledges—awesome!)

I said that I'd be unlocking videos from my mini-course, Story Uplevels—which is all about the psychological triggers that make books stickier and more sellable.

There are 8 videos total and I said I would unlock one at funding, then one at 50 backers, 100 backers, etc. We unlocked three videos and I'll be sending them to everyone at $20 or above!

We didn't hit 150 backers, but I decided to unlock a 4th video anyway just as an added bonus.

Each of the videos are standalone, so I think you'll get a lot out of what we've unlocked! I'll also probably do a super discounted bundle upgrade for the other 4 videos through BackerKit. Additionally, if you are backed under $20 and want to upgrade so you can get the 4 bonus videos that we unlocked, you'll be able to do so in BackerKit.

Speaking of BackerKit, I'm working on the survey this week!

Thank you so much for backing this campaign—these are two of my favorite books in The Productive Novelist series and I'm so excited to have engagement around updating them!

Sincerely,
Monica

Funded! I'm amazed. Thank you!
7 months ago – Fri, May 03, 2024 at 08:06:12 PM

Hello!

Thank you so much for backing this campaign right out of the gate. And on a Friday night! I wasn't sure what to expect launching at the end of the week, but y'all seemed to come out anyway! 

I'll be spending the weekend updating the campaign and getting the word out across all my channels, so the next you'll hear from me will probably be Monday when I announce some new tiers. 

Thank you and talk soon! 

Sincerely

Monica