The 'zine is unlocked and will be added for free to all pledges!
Our next stretch goal is an International Shipping Discount. With the crowdfund ending on Tuesday, Sept 30th at 4pm EST...this is very achievable.
Our new stretch goal, coming right after the shipping discount, is Fantasy Maps for all four novellas! These maps will each be rendered in a style suiting their stories, as illustrated by Darian Jones.
See IN DETAIL for samples of their work.
Another free thing for all backers: We've partnered with ebook cloud library Libreture so that all backers will receive a digital coupon for 50% off any Libreture Extra subscription plan for a whole year! That's a potential saving of £96/$129 for up to 300GB of ebook space - plenty of room for your new novellas & 'zine.
IN DETAIL
'ZINE UNLOCKED
All backers will receive the 17,000 word novelette 'zine with Audrey Stollings' LATHRA story, illustrated by Daniel Vega, for free!
This will be in digital formats if you're a digital backer, and as a paper n' staples delight if you're a physical format backer.
ONWARD TO OUR INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING DISCOUNT
We're already a couple hundred dollars toward covering a $5 shipping discount for Canadians and a $10 discount for the entire rest of the world!
Cheaper shipping? Sounds good to me!
NEW STRETCH GOAL: FANTASY MAPS BY DARIAN JONES
Darian's map for LORD OF A SHATTERED LAND by Howard Andrew Jones
Coming right after our shipping discount stretch goal, we've added a book enhancement that feels more attainable than the rather costly spray edges - though we'll still try our best to get those too - maps.
If we unlock first the shipping discount, then this stretch goal, illustrator Darian Jones will create B&W maps for the interior of each novella, in a style matching their stories!
Darian's map for THE CITY OF MARBLE AND BLOOD by Howard Andrew Jones.
Pardon the hasty phone pics, this stretch goal has come together rather quickly at the last minute. Better quality pictures of a wider variety of Darian's work will adorn the campaign page soon - we just couldn't wait to tell you about this!
OH HEY, ANOTHER FREE THING FOR ALL BACKERS...
We like to give our backers as much as possible, so when Libreture reached out to us about providing a free coupon for their services to everybody supporting NEW EDGE SWORD & SORCERY NOVELLAS...we leapt on it!
We'll let them explain what they do, and what the coupon gets you, in their own words here:
Libreture is the ebook cloud library to store all your DRM-free ebooks, digital comics, magazines, RPGs, and more.
See your digital books in all their glory, and download them to read whenever you like. It's Dropbox meets Goodreads for ebook readers!
Libreture's Free Forever plan includes plenty of storage space for the average ebook reader, but backers of the New Edge Sword & Sorcery Novellas crowdfunder are not the average ebook reader, are they!
Backers receive a digital coupon for 50% off any Libreture Extrasubscription plan for a whole year! That's a potential saving of £96/$129 for up to 300GB of ebook space.
You get all Libreture features with any plan you choose, such as the ability to UPLOAD your DRM-free epub, mobi, azw3, PDF, CBZ and CBR books to build your private library. TRACK what you've read, what you're reading and what you want to read - focus on books, not stats! EXPLORE readers' libraries and recommendations to discover new ebooks to wishlist and the DRM-free bookshops to buy them from.
We have not profited from this deal; we just think it's pretty cool what Libreture offers and want to use our crowdfund to benefit them as well as you.
ALRIGHT THEN...
...that was a lot of news! Let's review...
Free 'Zine unlocked
International Shipping Discount is next!
Fantasy Maps are our new third stretch goal, right after the shipping discount.
All backers get a free coupon for a deep discount on ebook storage.
It's been so encouraging seeing the support coming in over the past week for this glorious set of books (and a 'zine!) that we've been planning for over a year. Thank you so much for sharing the campaign, and let's see if we can't unlock some more goodies in the final few days of the crowdfund!
This stretch goal covers reducing shipping costs for all backers outside the United States: $5 USD off for Canadian backers, and $10 USD off for anyone outside of North America.
Goal: $18,300 reached! — We did it! This project reached this goal!
