Thank you so much. It feels marvelous to let ourselves imagine holding this hot little book in our hands.

And we need just 16 more backers to unlock Bryn Hammond's bonus poetry. Heck at 85% of the way, it's not outlandish to think we'll unlock spray color edges!

Meanwhile all one hundred of our planned hardcovers have been claimed. We're going to talk to the printer about raising the print run, but probably only to 125 or so. The crowdfund definitely remains the time to grab one.

Alright, the campaign ends at noon EST this Saturday. Let's see how far we can take this caravan!

Not backed or shared us yet? We're close enough now that you could be the one to get us to 100%!

It would be amazing to fund soon and begin racing toward our first stretch goal - Spray Color Edges. When we get there we'll do a poll so that our backers can choose what color to paint the edges of Double-Edged Sword & Sorcery's pages.

FUN FACTS

All soft & hardcovers will now be enhanced with purple page edges, just like the classic mass-market paperbacks from back in the day!

WILL WE UNLOCK THE TWO PAGE FULL COLOR INSERT BY SAJAN RAI???

We've got until 12pm EST, maybe a little past that if overtime pledges - on Backerkit if someone pledges in the last ten minutes, the crowdfund is extended by ten minutes and if someone pledges in THAT ten minutes then hey ten more minutes and so on - so who knows?

Well hot damn! "Publish an 'Ace Double' style book" is a real publisher dream when you're a fan of classic genre paperbacks like we are, so thank you very much for letting us check that off our bucket list.

The two manuscripts are close to print-ready! Still, we're playing it careful with our timeline as we'd rather give you the pleasant surprise of early fulfillment than promise too much and have the book be delayed. This is our first traditionally printed book, and though we expect the process to be simpler than with our magazine, it might not be - especially with the spray color edges, which we've never done before either. We'll keep you in the loop as the process moves along.

Ah, spray color edges! So cool... It's pretty much a given at this point that they will be a rich purple, however we may explore some options with our printer and will let you know what the final result is.

I'd like to repeat that The New Edge Sword & Sorcery Discord, a great online hang-out I'd love to see your digital faces in, is a fun spot to chat about our publications, Sword & Sorcery in general, and otherwise connect with your fellow readers, writers, artists, and more.

It's also a breeding ground for goofs like, as you may have seen in our previous crowdfunds, how Meatball Subs Are The Only Real Sandwich, and the only time I get to eat one is when we've finished funding another publication.

Can we make meatball subs the official sandwich of Sword & Sorcery? Perhaps with enough...fibonacci sequence inspired layouts?

Alright, that's all from me for now. Please make sure to read through IN SHORT for the practical details of what's happening with charging backers for pledges, charging for shipping, our rough schedule and more.

Keep your double-edged swords sharp, and your sorcery numinous!

Sincerely,