In romance, we don't like it with somebody messes with the HEA.

I debated on the H for a little bit...thought maybe I'd do historical. I even thought about doing hockey.

But then it dawned on me...romance is all about the HEA. In a pin campaign celebrating the romance genre, how can I not include something that talks about the HEA?

Book genres are defined by certain characteristics.

Mysteries will have mystery.

Historicals will be set in the past.

Murder mysteries will involve murder.

And romance will involve a couple (**or throuple/more) falling in love and finding their HEA or HFN (Happy for Now).  Romance lovers want that satisfying conclusion at the end, knowing the people they've come to know will find their person(s) and make it work.  Things don't always work out in life and there aren't always HEAs.

But we can find them in some places - and a romance in one of those.

Every once in a while there's a kerfuffle in the online spaces known as romancelandia where a writer-typically newish to the romance genre-will announce they're putting a 'new' spin on the romance genre.  This 'new spin' is a 'love story' without the HEA.

Romancelandia has spoken out, loudly, against this every time somebody tries to reinvent our quite lovely wheel.

A few years ago, during one of these blow-ups on twitter, one of these writers was insisting nobody could tell her what to write.

That's true. But likewise, she can't insist her 'love story without the HEA' is still a romance and think romance lovers are gonna be cool with it. Which is pretty much what I said. And I added something along the lines of "This is romance. It's HEA or GTFO."

When I was going through my ideas for the various letters, I kept going back to H and realized why.  Because...well, we're talking romance.

It stops with the HEA.

And that's how I wanted to end this first pin campaign...with the HEA.

That being said, I'm going to have all pin designs, A-H, available for backers.  G is mocked up and I'm discussing it with the artist, so you'll see the final in an update before I send out surveys.

The H...or the HEA, is already done.

Hello my friends!

Surveys are officially locked; I gave it an extra week because I was out of town and not near a computer. We still have some outstanding surveys, failed initial payments and failed payments for shipping and add-ons from the survey. Please fix your payments ASAP so I can get final counts!

If your payment isn't fixed by April 10th, you will forfeit your freebie items in your order. This isn't to be mean; I just really need my final counts and payments to be able to put everything into production and get the correct amounts to order, otherwise I am very out of pocket and my numbers aren't correct. If you do not have your payment fixed by April 10th, I cannot guarantee I will have the designs you want in stock as I have already ordered 90% of the pins off of the counts that I have.

Thank you again so much for your support and enjoy the rest of your weekend!
Nikki

Hello! the survey due date has passed and orders are now locked.
I have now put in all my order numbers based off of the surveys and paid my manufacturers.

All items will be ordered by the survey closing date so you must have your survey completed and your payment method fixed by the survey DUE DATE.

APRIL 10th is the last day to fix your payment and fill out your survey before Freebies are removed from your orders. 

Hi everyone!

I have finally got approved for sending out smoke test surveys today. If you're a lucky one, please fill it out when you are able to. The sooner they are completed, the sooner I can send the rest of the surveys!

Thank you all for being patient (I really tried to double check everything). Please let me know if you have any questions or run into any issues and I'll do my best to sort it out as soon as I can.

———NEXT UPDATE———
✦ Expect the next update to be around when I send all surveys out.

Stay safe and have a wonderful day or night!

Hi everyone!

Over 70% of the smoke test surveys have been completed so I will be sending out all of the surveys now. Thanks to those that got it done :)

I will be leaving the surveys open until 03/29 at the very least. I may leave it open longer if there are a few stragglers.

———PRE-ORDER STORE———
✦ If you had any friends that missed out on the initial campaign run, they can now pre-order through my store! Head to the front page of this campaign (https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/nightfall-s-delight/a-night-of-romantasy-fantasy-pin-collection) and there will be a button underneath the 'estimate to ship by' date.
✦ Gentle reminder: if you already pledged before, please complete your survey! Do not order items through this store or else you risk double shipping charges!

———NEXT UPDATE———
✦ Expect the next update to be around the end of March when I give a final survey end date.

Have a great rest of your week!