Category: Faerie Blood
Kickstarter update: $3K! Shiny milestone rewards! Stretch goals!
| April 28, 2012 | Posted by annathepiper under Bone Walker, Faerie Blood |
Many thanks to incoming new backers today, especially to backer Cyn, who has pushed us over the $3,000 mark! Cyn therefore wins the Dramatic Character Death opportunity, and will get to consult with me on the character to be named as she chooses, in what story the character appears, and the manner of the character’s Dramatic Death!
But that’s not all, folks, because now that we have cracked the 75 percent mark, I can share with you a few more awesome things! First up, as promised, I present to you Chapter 3 of both Faerie Blood and Bone Walker!
Second, and hopefully just as if not more enticingly, I will now make this initial announcement about the stretch goals that are in store if the project goes over its goal!
The first of this will be Book 3 of the Kendis books, as of yet untitled, which is still in the planning stages. Of this book, though, I can tell you this–part of it will be set in St. John’s, Newfoundland, and will provide some followup to the backstory of Warder Christopher MacSimidh, as well as some things I’m laying down in Bone Walker. I’m actually getting to visit St. John’s this summer, and am very, very much looking forward to seeing the place firsthand, in no small part so I’ll be able to portray it properly in the book!
And the second of these, about which my beloved Dara and I are both very excited, is a musical soundtrack to accompany the novels! We are in talks with musicians local to us who are interested in participating, and we will be using Dara’s own studio to record it. It promises to include not only several traditional sets that fit in well with the characters of the books, but also “Something’s Coming” out of Dara’s own work under the aegis of Crime and the Forces of Evil!
Don’t forget, though–the next backer, #75, will get a free ebook copy of the Drollerie edition of Faerie Blood, and I will keep handing those out to every 25th backer. And at the $3,500 mark, I’ll hand out one signed PRINT copy of the Drollerie edition of the book as well!
Many, many thanks to you all, and again, huge congrats to Cyn!
Test run of color versions of the Faerie Blood cover!
| April 25, 2012 | Posted by annathepiper under Bone Walker, Faerie Blood |
YOU GUYS! YOU GUYS! Check out what lovely shiny things Kiri Moth has sent me!
This is a test run of various color schemes for the Faerie Blood cover art, both in light and dark color palettes. These aren’t final–these are Kiri playing with the color schemes and sending me samples to get my vote–but all of them are so pretty that I wanted to share with them you all!
I will be working with her on the #2 light theme as we move forward to the final color art, since I feel that one’s got the best color punch of the three of those, and I want to hold a darker color scheme for Bone Walker‘s cover. Still, though, all of them? SO SHINY. I am full of the artistic swoon.
And just remember, people, a book with the final version of this very art can be yours. If you haven’t pledged yet, come on over! Kendis wants to visit your shelves!
General reminder–and Kickstarter update!
| April 23, 2012 | Posted by annathepiper under Bone Walker, Faerie Blood |
I had a lovely surprise on my way home from work tonight, as a user on Twitter pinged me to ask if I knew how she could find Faerie Blood, because she couldn’t find it on Amazon! Stunned, I thanked her for getting in touch with me, advised her that my publisher had folded and so that edition of the book was no longer publicly for sale, and of course mentioned the Kickstarter in progress!
I also offered to handsell her the Drollerie edition immediately, which she took me up on. I’ve mentioned this before on this blog but I’ll mention it again–just for reference, all, if you still want to read the original Drollerie edition of Faerie Blood, I will still sell it to you! Five dollars to all comers, and that’ll get you the file format of your choice.
The easiest way to pay me is via PayPal to my gmail address, annathepiper. If you do not have a PayPal account, I will also accept $5 in credit to the Barnes and Noble ebook store (because I am a Nook owner and my wishlist is huge), or the same on either the US or Canadian iTunes stores (because I also have a pretty huge digital music wishlist)!
This offer will remain open until the second edition ebook of Faerie Blood is deployed, following the close of the Kickstarter project. Contact me by email (again, gmail, annathepiper) or DM me on the social network of your choice (Facebook, G+, Twitter, I’m annathepiper in all three places) if you’d like to buy that version of the book.
Or, you could support the Kickstarter! If you time it right, you could win a free copy anyway! I started handing them out to every 25th supporter, starting with #50, and the next one is due for backer #75!
And speaking of same–HUGE news tonight as we broke the $2,500 mark! The next big milestone is $3,000, and when we hit that, I will not only post Chapter 3 of both books, I will ALSO offer a character death to the backer who gets me there! Keep your support coming, people! You are all wonderful, every last one of you!
Kickstarter update: Fifty percent has been reached!
| April 21, 2012 | Posted by annathepiper under Bone Walker, Faerie Blood |
Big news for the morning! We have achieved the fifty percent mark, and are now standing at 52 backers and $2,055 pledged! Huge, huge thanks and congratulations to backer Glenn who kicked us over the line, and on whose behalf a free PDF copy of the original edition of Faerie Blood will be given to Lexi! Many thanks as well to backer Shanti for assisting in Glenn’s pledge!
Which brings me to the next topic of this update post! On the project’s main page, I’ve added in a few FAQ’s that have come my way, including how to support if you don’t want to pay through Amazon (short form: “consider getting a friend or family member with an Amazon account to pledge on your behalf”), when you will actually be charged money (short form: “if and only if the project is fully funded by its deadline of May 16th”), and when the best time to support would be (short form: “sooner is better than later!”) Click over to the project for the full list of FAQ’s and my answers, and if you have further questions that I haven’t covered, please feel free to drop comments on this post or use Kickstarter’s provided link on the project page to send a question in.
And now then, let’s talk milestone incentives! Since rolling over the 2K mark and hitting 50 supporters worked so beautifully, I am prepared to offer further incentives to encourage you all to keep those pledges coming. First of all, as previously promised for the 2K milestone, it is time to give you Chapter 2 of both Faerie Blood and Bone Walker! Behold PDF links!
Where do we go next from here? Glad you asked!
I will offer continued free ebook copies of the original Drollerie edition of Faerie Blood, and the next one will be handed out to backer #75!
At the $2,500 mark, I will automatically update the backer who pushes me over that line to the next highest reward tier!
At the $3,000 mark, I will post Chapter 3 of both books!
At the $3,500 mark, the backer who gets me there will also get one of the two limited edition print copies of the Drollerie edition of Faerie Blood, along with all other selected rewards!
We are halfway there, people, and the project’s first week isn’t even over yet. Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU for your support! And remember, signalboosting has been scientifically proven to make you automatically 15 percent more awesome, so keep sharing the project link! Let’s see where we can get in week two!
Kickstarter update: Holding steady at 45 percent
| April 20, 2012 | Posted by annathepiper under Bone Walker, Faerie Blood |
We’re up to 45 backers and $1,825, and we’re 45 percent of the way there! And every last one of you who’ve chipped in so far are made of 100 percent, home-grown, pure organic awesome. It is a FACT, which I know because of my learnings!
And because of your general awesomeness, as I posted in my last update, I’ve dropped in that new all-ebook reward tier of $25, which will include both Faerie Blood and Bone Walker, as well as the previously posted short story “The Blood of the Land” and the in-progress Elizabeth/Ross novella. It is, therefore, time to share with you an excerpt from the short story!
This is another PDF link, and this one’s pretty short since the actual story is only about seven thousand words. I’m still putting it into PDF form though for the sake of brevity of post!
I’d like to extend particular thanks to all supporters who jump in despite having reservations about Kickstarter’s only allowed methods of payments are via Amazon. I very much respect why this might cause reservations, and deeply appreciate your support given anyway!
And remember, folks, even if you can’t support financially, signalboosting is love. It’s like handing cute little animals to the entire Internet! Or in my case, more excerpts–because we’re a scant $175 away from Chapter 2 of both books going up!
And, of course, the project lives right over here! Again, thank you all!
Goodreads broke my RSS feed, oops!
| April 19, 2012 | Posted by annathepiper under Bone Walker, Faerie Blood |
My blog feeds into my Goodreads profile, but for some reason the last several posts didn’t come through. So I had to go in and change the feed to make it start working again! I know at least a couple of people read my posts via Goodreads, so HI GOODREADS PEOPLE! If you didn’t know already, lookit! I have a Kickstarter!
And apparently this has happened what with this week’s updates! 43 backers, 44 percent funded, $1,795 and holding! Still very good progress for the first week and I’m hoping we’ll crack 50 percent over the weekend. 
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Tonight’s Kickstarter update: Should I break out more cookies?
| April 18, 2012 | Posted by annathepiper under Bone Walker, Faerie Blood, Short Pieces |
Tonight’s numbers: 40 backers, $1,720 pledged, and we are at 43 percent funding! Given that we are only about three days in at this point, I believe that this can be summarized with one succinct word: FANTASTIC.
But! I got in a lovely little comment from a backer who says she’s willing to throw me more money if I open up new rewards that focus exclusively on ebooks–which raises the interesting question of how many of my other Warder universe ideas do I want to throw into this pot? I’ve already touched on these on this blog before, and in order of ease of adding to the project, these are:
- The Elizabeth/Ross novella, already in progress
- “The Blood of the Land”, my previous Drollerie short story, which came out in Defiance
- The Millicent Merriweather origin story, still in planning stages
- The tuba player story, also still in planning stages
Some of you have already told me you are going to support me when your next paydays arrive, and for that I thank you most kindly in advance! But if any of you might still be on the fence, let me know if additional shinies off this list would pull you in–OR, if you’ve already supported, if they’d tempt you to up your pledge! ‘Cause, y’know, if y’all are willing to do that, I will TOTALLY start adding new rewards!
The official update post is over here–drop a comment there or here! The official project page is here!
And again–though I’ll be saying this a lot over the next few weeks, it bears repeating every single time–thank you, THANK YOU ALL, for your support!
Kickstarter update! Sample chapters!
| April 17, 2012 | Posted by annathepiper under Bone Walker, Faerie Blood |
I am thrilled, thrilled I tell you, to report that within 24 hours of launching the Faerie Blood and Bone Walker Kickstarter, we’ve already cracked $1,000 in pledges. This means we are a quarter of the way there already. And to celebrate, I feel some sample chapters coming on! I’m going to post these as available to all comers, in the hopes that if you haven’t pledged yet, these will motivate you to do so!
If you haven’t read Faerie Blood yet, here, have Chapter 1!
If you have read Faerie Blood, I give unto you (the as of yet unedited, so this is the rough draft, y’all) Chapter 1 of Bone Walker!
Both links will take you to PDFs. Posting in that form for the sake of brevity of post, and for also ensuring that you won’t accidentally click on spoilers! Enjoy, all, and thank you for your support!
The Faerie Blood/Bone Walker Kickstarter is now LIVE!
| April 16, 2012 | Posted by annathepiper under Bone Walker, Faerie Blood |
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Ladies and gentlemen, I am thrilled to announce that the Faerie Blood and Bone Walker Kickstarter project is now LIVE! Clickie on the link to see the project, including the awesome video Dara put together for me, and the list of all the shiny rewards Kiri Moth and I will be offering!
Many thanks to David Sklar, Sarah Avery, and Gary Inbinder, my fellow former Drollerie authors, for providing such wonderful blurbs. Many thanks to JoSelle Vanderhooft who’ll be tackling the edits for Bone Walker as soon as I finish it, and to Kiri Moth for her ongoing amazing work on the cover art! Most of all, huge props to my beloved Dara for her excellent work on the video!
If you want to support the project, be advised that you will need an Amazon.com account for it to work, since that’s how Kickstarter collects its payments. If you do not have an Amazon account, please consider bribing a friend with an account to do it for you!
And even if you can’t support financially, spreading the word to your own blogs and journals, Facebook pages, Twitter feeds, Tumblrs, etc., will still be very, very helpful. So please, by all means, share the project link with unbridled abandon!
Let’s do this thing, people. And thank you all very, very much for your support!
Kickstarter update!
| April 14, 2012 | Posted by annathepiper under Bone Walker, Faerie Blood |
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I am delighted to report that as of last night, Dara handed me what we think will be the final version of the video for my Kickstarter project. We’re waiting on one last bit of feedback to see if Dara needs to tweak the text captions–but other than that, people, I’m about ready to have the nice folks at Kickstarter approve this thing. Once they do, I CAN GO LIVE.
I’ve lined up a bunch of lower-tier rewards geared around the ebook and print copies of Faerie Blood and Bone Walker, as well as the postcard and poster reproductions of Kiri Moth’s art. At the top of the lower tier of rewards, we’re talking an extra novella as well–this’ll be the as of yet untitled story of Elizabeth Breckenridge, my psychic, who must help Ross Taggart solve the murder of his Warder sister. I’ll be offering this as a reward since it’s already partly written, and I am confident I’ll be able to finish it up to offer for all y’all who might be thinking of supporting at high enough levels!
Limited upper tier rewards will feature the original preliminary sketches of the artwork of both books, as well as the pencil-and-ink original of the final artwork for both books. AND, I will be offering one of my two print copies of the Drollerie edition of Faerie Blood, signed by me of course, at this level as well. Everybody who throws in for any of this level of reward will also get everything up to the $100 level–i.e., both books, as well as the postcard, poster, and digital versions of the art.
And the highest-tier, crazytalk level rewards will involve things like getting your name on the Dedication page, or having a character named after you in the third book of the Faerie Blood trilogy, or if you’re feeling really ambitious, you can commission a Warder universe novella with a character named after you.
So yeah, we’re getting REAL close, so watch this space for events as they happen! And speaking of getting close, we’re ALSO closing in on the final cover art for Faerie Blood. Check it out, this is the last round of art that Kiri sent me!
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