I'm very happy to report that physical fulfillment for Blood In The Margins is now complete! With the exception of the small handful of people who still haven't filled out surveys yet, all orders have now been processed and are on their way.
It's been a few years since I've handled a fulfillment of this size and I'd forgotten how much work it can be on your own. I'd also forgotten how unintuitive I find Backerkit's pledge manager behind the scenes. There's a reason I've handled the majority of my crowdfunding fulfillment through Loot The Room in the past rather than using a pledge manager, and I think next time I'll be going back to doing it that way. (I also think that had I done it through Loot The Room we would have been finished several weeks ago, because we wouldn't have had to wait for everyone to fill out surveys and for Backerkit to charge cards, but that's a lesson learned.)
Speaking of next time...
It's coming up on five years since The Wretched was on Kickstarter, and as well as spending that time figuring out how to improve on the Wretched & Alone system I've also done a lot of thinking about how to write a sequel to that game. I've been quietly working on it in the background for the past few months, and I'm happy to announce that I'll be bringing The Haunting Of The Wretched to Backerkit in late September/early October.
This isn't another Wretched & Alone game - it's something new, and I'm very excited about it. I'll be sharing more details over on the campaign as I get closer to launch, but today I wanted to simply let you know that it exists and also share the cover art for the game!
A digital mockup of an A5 zine. The cover shows a lone cosmonaut standing amongst the wreckage of a space ship.
If you want to follow that campaign then you can find the pre-launch page here. I'd love to see some familiar faces over there!
With fulfillment complete, this will be the last update I write here. If you'd like to stay in touch, I've love it if you considered signing up for my newsletter. At most I send one email a month, but it's often less frequent than that, and they always include cat pictures. You can check out the most recent one here if you want to see the sort of things I send! (That's a Substack link, but as of this month I no longer use Substack for my newsletters.)
Thanks again for all your support on this campaign. I'm really proud of Blood In The Margins and I hope you enjoy it once you have it in your hands!
