I'd actually planned to put this up for just a week or two, but then I remembered that April 15th is tax day (for me and for most of you, anyway) so I'll be leaving a late pledge option up through April before switching it over to preorders.
... though I think I am going to close stretch goals here.
Thank you again to everybody!!
Best wishes,
Jenna
Project Complete, and Third Stretch Goal Complete!
8 months ago
– Tue, Apr 02, 2024 at 01:51:23 PM
Sunrise over the roofs, by Jenn Manley Lee
Thank you all!!!
(and an extra special thanks to the Dedicated Friend that tossed in a few hundred extra at the literal last minute to make sure that third stretch goal happened!)
If you're interested in the Far Roofs but weren't able to back on kickstarter, I'll be opening up a backerkit store soon with many of the options! This is my first time using backerkit, so please bear with me if it takes a while, or, if I figure it out instantly and wind up messaging you all twice today.
Kickstarter usually takes around 14 days to sort through everything and confirm the final backer list and total. I'll do my best to get the rewards I can send out then---the novels from the $98k stretch goal, digital copies of Glitch from the Glitch add-ons, and everyone's copies of the Flood---as soon as possible after! You can bug me if it doesn't happen this month.
Thank you all one more time! I'm really happy that this did well enough that I can give this book an even better treatment than originally planned.
(Also, wow, 2000 backers! That's an extremely round and fulfilling number. ^_^)
I'll update as things go; for right now, my priority is finishing up the originally planned art, going over PoD proofs for ways to improve the general look, and maybe expanding the index when I'm less aaaaaaaaaah! we did it!!! and can do detail work once again. ^_^
Best wishes,
Jenna
P.S. I gave a couple of podcast interviews recently, on the Far Roofs with MIldra the Monk and on gaming in general over at the Ludogogy podcast; you can check them out if you like!
Fortitude Rat, probably checking out the podcast interviews,by Camille "Karma" O'Leary
Second Stretch Goal Complete! Party Favors for Everybody!
8 months ago
– Sun, Mar 31, 2024 at 04:24:29 PM
by Jenn Manley Lee
We've hit our second stretch goal, and 300%! Thank you all so much!
Accordingly, this means that all backers now get a voucher for an at-cost print-on-demand copy of "the Flood," and, each $50+ pledge now sponsors one community copy of the final digital version! That's around 870 copies so far, and more as we go. I do think they'll get used up at some point even at those numbers, so please enjoy the fact that your $50+ pledge helps one more person out later on!
As a separate bonus, the promo video series is now complete! You can find a master post linking to all of them here!
Best wishes,
Jenna
The Stagger of Rooftops
8 months ago
– Sat, Mar 30, 2024 at 02:48:11 PM
The Stagger of Rooftops, by Lee Moyer
Hi all! Here's one of the bonus spreads I've commissioned in celebration of the kickstarter's ongoing success. If we do well enough, there'll be a few more!
With Lee's permission, I'll also be making the original ink drawing for this piece available shortly at a new pledge level. Please bear with me if I underprice it and it's gone before you get there. Conversely, if I aim too high for a 72-hour sales window, dedicated friends and friends of the rats can feel free to contact me in April to express interest and I'll figure something out!
... at that, please also feel free to comment if you'd like to be put in touch with any of the artists for prints, sketches, or originals (though I believe most of the pieces you've seen are digital and lack originals)!
Best wishes,
Jenna
Limited Edition Glitch Add-on Expanded!
8 months ago
– Sun, Mar 24, 2024 at 07:46:48 PM
Hi all!
As per implicit request, I've made another 25 copies of the Glitch add-on available, and will probably add even a few more on once I reconcile myself to using up almost all my supply.
Best wishes,
Jenna
like what if I move in a couple of years and lose my copy in the move and then I'm too broke to get another but then LATER I have money again and want to have Indie Press Revolution send me one and they're all gone WHAT THEN I ask you or what if I'm stuck on an arctic expedition and discover an ancient magically warmed ruin where nobody has any copies of Glitch and they're too snobby to buy print on demand even though the quality of print on demand is really quite good these days and the only way to buy back my name (they stole it, hypothetically, and also all my other names, even the one I keep in my zipper purse pocket for nominative emergencies) is with copies but they're gone? I worry about these things. Or what if
