Earlier this year, I did a 21 day campaign on Kickstarter for my upcoming novel, Sparks in Iceland. This was my first time ever running a Kickstarter, and the book itself wasn’t the ideal fit for Kickstarter. The best-performing books on Kickstarter tend to be fantasy novels with smut. My book was neither one of those things. Instead, Sparks in Iceland is a contemporary closed-door romance. But just because it wasn’t the ideal book for Kickstarter, didn’t mean it was doomed to fail. By the end of my Kickstarter I ended up raising $4,094, which I feel like is pretty good considering it was my first Kickstarter, and that the genre also wasn’t the typical ones you see making thousands of dollars on Kickstarter. But I didn’t walk away with $4,000 in my pocket. I still had to print the books and ship the books. Today I’m breaking down the full costs of my Kickstarter and how much money I actually made at the end of the day.