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Collecting the funds: Happens over the next 2 weeks (until November 22).
Keep an eye on your email for a notification about your pledge. If it went through,...
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Erin Ptah
13 days ago
Dawn of the final day: 14 hours remain
...In retrospect, whoo boy do I regret setting the Leif & Thorn Volume 7 campaign deadline on the Friday after a major election.
On the other hand: seems likely that "g...
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Erin Ptah
20 days ago
Your options for ebook and mini-print add-ons
Can't believe we are 99% funded and haven't posted this already. (This is why it's a good thing I haven't tried to run a 3-week campaign! I would definitely just...miss stuff....
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Erin Ptah
29 days ago
The Volume 7 mini-print poll is up
Status report: after just over a week, Volume 7 is nearly 75% funded. Go us!
I added a "More Book" achievement to the campaign, so even after we hit the main goal, you can se...
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Erin Ptah
about 1 month ago
Day One: a hot start, Early Bird status, and new campaign features
Welcome to BackerKit, readers! Here's your Day One report of the Leif & Thorn Volume 7 campaign:
1) We got 45% funded in the first 24 hours! Including, if I'm reading these ...
Collecting the funds: Happens over the next 2 weeks (until November 22).
Keep an eye on your email for a notification about your pledge. If it went through, awesome! If the payment bounced, BackerKit will send you instructions on how to fix it.
Backer surveys: Will go out shortly after November 22.
That's where you fill in your shipping address (if you got a book), pick your add-on options (if you got add-ons with options), and have a chance to get your hands on the original Volume 7 cover art.
Early Bird sketch rewards: If you scored one of these, you'll get the "what am I drawing for you?" question as part of your backer survey.
That's how I did it with the Volume 6 campaign, and it worked out beautifully.
Your exclusive mini-print: The poll results are in, and Storm Mage is the exclusive mini-print for Volume 7 backers!
It was the clear leader for most of the poll's run time...but Day On The Town almost overtook it at the last minute. I might order a run of that too, and just add it to the list of "mini-prints available for any Leif & Thorn fan to buy."
The "More Book" stretch goal: For the first time, we did not make it. Got 96% of the way there! It wasn't an impossible goal! But we just slightly missed.
And, look, in some ways it's not surprising. I wasn't in a big shopping mood after Tuesday either.
...That said, the backer surveys will give you one last chance to grab post-campaign add-ons. So I'm thinking of announcing "if we raise the last $152 during the survey period, I'll make the book longer anyway." Stay tuned.
...In retrospect, whoo boy do I regret setting the Leif & Thorn Volume 7 campaign deadline on the Friday after a major election.
On the other hand: seems likely that "getting kicked into a different reality with all the same people but completely different worldbuilding and politics" is going to be extra-appealing to a lot of people right now.
If you're just coming to the campaign now: grab a book. Take a chance on the whole backlist, even.
If you're already a backer: thank you so much for joining us. Spread the word by sharing one last campaign post on Tumblr, Mastodon, Bluesky, and/or Facebook.
Or, hey, tell a friend IRL. That's good too.
And I'll do my best to keep creating stories that make the IRL horrors a little easier to slog through.
Can't believe we are 99% funded and haven't posted this already. (This is why it's a good thing I haven't tried to run a 3-week campaign! I would definitely just...miss stuff.)
If you want to fill out your pledge with the "Extra mini-print of choice" or "Extra PDF ebook of choice" add-ons...here are your choices!
But I'm A Cat Person prints: Rainbow Beings, Parade Wear
Extra PDF ebooks:
Leif & Thorn ebooks: Volumes 1-6, the "All Downhill From Here" short story
But I'm A Cat Person ebooks: Master's Edition omnibus (get 3 ebooks if you want this one, it's a 3-volume set!), "Being Q&A" bonus, "Master's Edition: Just the new stuff"
Making a new pledge to Leif & Thorn Volume 7? BackerKit will walk you through the add-ons menu.
Already pledged, but you want to grab some add-ons after the fact? Click the "Manage my Pledge" button at the top of the project page, and you can open the menu that way.
Status report: after just over a week, Volume 7 is nearly 75% funded. Go us!
I added a "More Book" achievement to the campaign, so even after we hit the main goal, you can see a progress bar for the first stretch goal.
And with that, it's poll time.
For new backers: Every year, if you preorder the newest Leif & Thorn paperback, it comes with a backer-exclusive mini-print. Instead of just picking out the art myself, I grab a few different pieces and let you folks vote.
Now that I've tried the built-in BackerKit polls...you can attach images to the options, but they come out pretty small and cramped. Not ideal when what you're voting on is "art."
