Zombie Orpheus Entertainment
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3 months ago
Project Update: ZOE Mega-Update
Hi everyone!
Since there's so much going on, we're putting all of the crowdfunding news in one place and sending a single update to all of our followers on BackerKit, rather than multiple different emails landing in your inbox. Please skip to the section that's relevant to your interests!
Since there's so much going on, we're putting all of the crowdfunding news in one place and sending a single update to all of our followers on BackerKit, rather than multiple different emails landing in your inbox. Please skip to the section that's relevant to your interests!
Contents
- Mercedes Lackey's Grandmaster
- American Geniuses
- The Gamers: The Series
- Booktopia Collab Campaigns & Shout-outs
MERCEDES LACKEY'S GRANDMASTER
A huge thanks to the 1742 people who raised $173,00 in the first 24 hours, making this our best first crowdfunding day ever. You all blasted through every record that we've set over fourteen years of running campaigns!
We cannot wait to produce and deliver this deluxe leather-bound edition of Misty's Valdemar novellas and short stories.
It gets better. You all have already unlocked five stretch goals, before we even had a chance to announce them!
We cannot wait to produce and deliver this deluxe leather-bound edition of Misty's Valdemar novellas and short stories.
It gets better. You all have already unlocked five stretch goals, before we even had a chance to announce them!
- $130,000 – Upgrade the art book from 6" x 9" to 6.625" x 10.25"
- $140,000 – Upgrade the art book to heavier cover material & add gold foil to the cover
- $150,000 – Every art book is stamped with a unique foil number & we increase the size of the book again
- $160,000 – Commission a new Rob Carlos painting for both books
- $170,000 – Include a ribbon marker in Deluxe Grandmaster
- $200,000 – Add sheet music to both books: 3 new settings of Misty’s original Valdemar songs
- $220,000 – [to be revealed]
Reminder: 24 hours remain in our Earlybird Offer. Pledge now and we'll add free digital wallpapers of the new art to your order!
Pledge for Grandmaster
Also, if you're participating in the trivia challenge and angling for that Loremaster patch, our fourth and fifth trivia questions have dropped, so pull out your copies of The Last Herald Mage and get to answering!
AMERICAN GENIUSES
When we shared the news about Ben Dobyns' new graphic novel with the ZOE fandom, we figured that maybe 10-12 people would be interested. You all funded the project and unlocked the first issue in fifteen minutes.
A huge thank you to everyone who joined on our first day; you're making it possible for us to produce more pages from the second issue and to tell this epic story even faster than planned. American Geniuses introduces a class of gifted teenagers who are pursued by the Monkey King... a supernatural prisoner who has been searching for geniuses to help him stage a daring jail break.
Pledge for American Geniuses
(Misty has also commissioned Ben to write the new Valdemar music, so they're staying pretty busy.)
A huge thank you to everyone who joined on our first day; you're making it possible for us to produce more pages from the second issue and to tell this epic story even faster than planned. American Geniuses introduces a class of gifted teenagers who are pursued by the Monkey King... a supernatural prisoner who has been searching for geniuses to help him stage a daring jail break.
Pledge for American Geniuses
(Misty has also commissioned Ben to write the new Valdemar music, so they're staying pretty busy.)
THE GAMERS: THE SERIES
You heard it here first... The Gamers: Attack of the Pwns (the sequel to The Gamers: The Shadow Menace) is going into production this fall!
The second part of our OG trilogy, following the adventures of Nimble, Rogar, Newmoon, and Magellan, continues in a story that sets them up for their final confrontation with The Shadow.
Written by Larry Dixon, Ben Dobyns, and Gabriel Gonda, we're pretty sure that everyone here has good reason to be excited for this movie!
You can follow along with production, and get ready to help us crowdfund, right here.
Follow The Gamers: Attack of the Pwns.
The second part of our OG trilogy, following the adventures of Nimble, Rogar, Newmoon, and Magellan, continues in a story that sets them up for their final confrontation with The Shadow.
Written by Larry Dixon, Ben Dobyns, and Gabriel Gonda, we're pretty sure that everyone here has good reason to be excited for this movie!
You can follow along with production, and get ready to help us crowdfund, right here.
Follow The Gamers: Attack of the Pwns.
BOOKTOPIA COLLAB CAMPAIGNS & SHOUTOUTS
In addition to running our first-ever crowdfunding campaigns on BackerKit, we've also been invited to participate in Booktopia, a literary extravaganza of creativity and collaboration from a diverse group of writers and artists collectively running book projects from September 5th to September 26th.
It's been a blast building community with other creators and we've signed up to collaborate with some awesome projects.
It's been a blast building community with other creators and we've signed up to collaborate with some awesome projects.
- Our Grandmaster Cross-Collab is the Throne of Luster. This first book in an epic new fantasy series set within the Akeroth RPG arrives to whisk you away to a world of Light-based Magic & Dragons!
- Our American Geniuses Cross-Collab is Sombulus Books 1 & 2, an all-ages fun fantasy graphic novel series about world-hopping adventurers solving the problems they find - and the ones they create.
- Misty and Larry also flipped for I Choose the Bear: A Bear-Shifter Romance, with Misty remarking that it sounded like the perfect "meat-cute."
- Finally, we have to highlight Finish Your Cosplay! ~ Inspirational and educational self-help for makers ~, which is far more relevant to our lives than we wanted to admit. The writer is a big Valdemar fan and hopes that the tools in that book will help those of us who are struggling with our cosplays.
Includes Backer-Exclusive Content
We add the sheet music for three of Misty's original songs to Grandmaster, with all-new compositions by Ben Dobyns.
Goal: $200,000 reached! — We did it! This project reached this goal!
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