A long love affair with the Sci-fi genre helps this side hustler build an empire—both imaginary and real—through his successful comic books and audio drama podcasts.
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going well wherever you are? I wasn't. I've had some requests,
fiction writers, or
palace or anybody doing that kind of creative work? Can you actually
money doing that where a lot of people don't, but some people do so what are those people do differently? How did they father passion?
that phrase. But how do they do something they enjoy Emily then? But yet
so make money today,
Look at a science fiction, comic book author who make something like
forty thousand dollars a year on the side, through his comic books, that.
Is coming up in a moment, but first, let's hear from a listener, with a shot out for someone who's.
Two along the way who is
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The science fiction world Travis been growth has created, is an elaborate one set on the
any of atrium. It describes inhabitants who have been cut off from humanity and dirt generate.
Of civil war
city remains and beyond its walls sprawls a lawless expanse, but as the story goes,
Government may be hiding something worse. This world called Liberty
is now Travis aside, Hustle portrayed a graphic novel and a new podcast
it's the permission of his long love affair with cipher. He remembers.
Terminate or two at the theatre when he was just four years old and spending hours
STAR wars: toys in high school. He graduated to playing lots of dungeons and dragons, which is where he first got the idea to create his own world
in college. He started documenting the stories for this alternative world. He was injured,
in alternative moralities. The idea
There is no universal good or bad, and its social contract
are largely subjective. Need aside the best way,
try this world liberty would be through comics over the following,
Kate. His side hustle gradually took shape, as he did. Other things for money. Travis chose the pin.
John DOE, censure, publishing and two years ago in
Duration for the release of his first comic book. Incorporate the business now.
Liberty, which has brought to light by artists and writers who collaborate with Travis from all over the world has been made into its first comic book volume, Anna, a podcast
I guess he's an audio drama, meaning it scripted with
factors and sound effects. Sort of like listening to a movie, Travis S,
started, the hustle, because he thought it would be easy, as well as inexpensive, to make a comic and produce a podcast,
he began by selling his book at a convention, Cotonou COMECON last October, and things begin.
Extremely well the
we can you gotta sail was also the weekend. He broke a record for sales at a convention with three or four copies of his graphic novel salt
effectively made a new sale every six and a half minutes eight hours a day for forty straight without any established brand
recognition or fan base. He remembers dancing with the last
customer to celebrate the surprising success.
Still it was a lot more work than he expected. He had to learn about.
Advertising marketing convention booth Rennell. I sb numbers in more detail sweated
some financial risk, his anger,
Expenses are almost entirely based on print cost, which were twelve thousand dollars. For that first graphic, not
Currently more than ninety percent of the site, hustles income comes from book sales Travis,
They began a donation page as well as an advertising campaign for the podcast, which has released every two weeks. He
as these conventions and social media, especially read. It had been the best way to market his liberty series.
This has becoming part of these online communities
Value to them is crucial to organically growing fan base, while making friends and continuing to learn about the genre he says gaining is profit.
It's been a game of nutrition and wonder he looks
to winning even more someday. His work is entirely sir.
Published and self distributed, which comes with both benefits and challenges and Travis runs.
Empire from his home in Sarasota Florida, in addition to his
I'm job managing properties. He and his wife us
to manage a seventy five pound dog named Enzo, who may or may not be getting his
comics very soon. It definitely has
been easy. The way that he first hoped and predicted by volume to
liberty, almost ready to print Travis hard work
to be paying off. He says
love, seeing the new art produced, getting parts from his voice actors for the podcast, and he does
lives every day, working on a hustle feeling like Christmas, or at least a Christian
Where you do a lot of work,
While the Liberty Series is doubly not get rich, quick plan,
Why decide hustle he's not depending on
for his primary income. He is doing at first inform
because he enjoys it. He loves building this world, telling the character stories through the graphic novels. Another podcast by the key point
as is also making money bodyguards.
Two years since he started, and I believe you should pursue a career.
Project, because you want to pursue it, not for some
motivation, but what I have to do with the shop at least one
calls for people who are artists writers.
Or musicians or something else is to help him go from doing creative projects only for the love of doing them to doing them for love and money. In other words, I think you dont have to choose between two people:
few things right beside us about coming out in September. Temper shows a step by step plan for doing this
When I give a shit out to a friend of Mine chef Goines, who has a book out called real artist, don't start, which assumes
the title, I thought, what a brilliant title- and it's also a great
source? For anyone who identifies with that title,
how do you know someone is an artist- might want to make more money from their work
that's just Goines and real artist. Don't start hope you enjoy
This episode today show notes, are at sight of school dotcom, slash one, nine nine, as always,
inspiration is good, but inspiration combined with action is so much better I'll, be back tomorrow without
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Transcript generated on 2020-08-06.