171: Crowdfunding Your Cookbook with Nandita Godbole

About this episode

Nandita Godbole discusses her experience with crowdfunding cookbooks through Kickstarter, sharing insights and advice.

Kate and Kristin speak all about crowdfunding with Nandita Godbole, who has fully funded seven books (and counting) through Kickstarter. Nandita shares how it all began, from her wildly successful supper club to funding her first book in just a few days and takes us through the details, ups and downs and pros and cons of going this route. She speaks about finding her audience, why she decided to self-publish, how she learned the technical specs and what the driving mission behind her projects is. This approach takes an immense amount of work for quality control, design choices and even hands on mailing so Nandita's persistence and perseverance has gotten her through stolen laptops, co-opted ideas and immense challenges. She leaves us with lovely and sage advice for others curious about crowdfunding and gives us a little peek into what's next.

People in this episode

Hosts: Kate, Kristin

Guest: Nandita Godbole

Topics covered

• crowdfunding
• cookbook publishing
• self-publishing
• Kickstarter
• entrepreneurship
• audience building

Keywords

• crowdfunding
• cookbook
• Kickstarter
• self-publishing
• supper club
• entrepreneurship
• audience

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