Well, my apologizes in advance but it seems people who weren't getting physical items got charged with shipping charges.
I refunded all of those right away. I definitely hit something wrong or set up items wrong in the pledge manager. I hope this wasn't a major inconvenience and your refunds should be hitting very shortly.
For those who do not need items shipped, do not okay any shipping charges. I definitely messed up and hopefully we can get through this big oops all okay in the end.
Thank you so much for your understanding and I'm super sorry this happened.
EDIT: Yeah, it was the way I set up the fairy photos. I unclicked that so everyone should not have an uneven balance.
Just some quick updates, I will be charging cards for shipping by this weekend. I just wanted to give everyone a heads up!
Shipping should start happening next week.
Also, I did a silly thing. I forgot to add one poem to the book entirely. I only noticed this as I was working on the ebook.
The poem, "Being of Winter" is in the ebook, as it was meant to be.
For physical copies already printed, I will be making a bookmark with the poem on it. The good news is that the table of contents is accurate for the book. So yaaaaaay!
Future copies of the book will have the poem as well, but the first 75 copies are just some fun first editions. So yay collectibles!
I'm spending this week finishing up the ebook, doing many tweaks in Calibre. I'm also getting the sheets for the Make-Fairy creatures made. I know not everyone uses dndbeyond, and I want to make my creatures accessible for all sorts of ttrpg players. And if people tweak the stats and abilities, I say heck yeah.
I have used InDesign in the past for putting books together, but have transitioned to Affinity and Calibre. There's a slight learning curve, but I'm getting through it.
I am feeling way better, by the way. My head isn't fuzzy and foggy anymore. Though, I am not pleased with playing catch-up. But, it is what it is.
Despite all the obstacles thrown my way, I think things turned out way better than I originally thought. The book exists and it's cute! The stories and poems are pretty good, too! I'm proud of this work. And I'm excited to share it with you all!
And just as nervous.
But hey, if you don't like the thing, that's okay. I don’t expect everyone to like it. I just hope more people like it than not. But if you do like it, then yay! That makes me happy.
Anyways, I don't have much else.
If you find my work to be pretty cool, and wish to see more of it, follow my Book Bazaar campaign, Fistfuls of Poetry.
It's been a bit and I apologize. There is a little bit of bad news. Digital rewards will be delayed by at least a week. This is due to myself coming down with some sort of plague. I've only just started to feel decent enough to do computer things. There's a good chance I'll get everything ready by the first week of September, as I had hoped. But, I just want you all to be aware just in case.
I've been working on getting prints done. I found a really awesome 5x7 paper that I like. The only issue is that I don't have most things formatted to fit 5x7 perfectly. So things will be a little smaller than I meant.
I'll start charging shipping once I've got the books in hand and have things officially packed. Expect charges to come in the next two weeks.
The book looks great, by the way! I shared videos all over the socials showing it off. I also got copies of my Make-A-Fairy trading cards from Cat Print and they look pretty cool!
Here are the fronts! And yes, I am aware of the typo in one of them. I, uh, didn't catch that until my partner pointed it out.
And here's the back!
Anyways, those are all the updates I have at this moment. I'll be sure to let you know if they are more.
Also, while you're here, have you considered more poetry in your life? Good! I have just the thing for you!
Why hey there Fairy friends and fiends! I have some quick updates on Fairy Seasons for ya!
Okay, so, I finished the print layout for the book. It's processing in Ingram right now. Hopefully there's nothing bad with it, but if so, I'll fix it and all that fun stuff. So far, the print cost is way more decent than I thought. And that's nice.
Some fun numbers for ya'll- Page count: 268 Word count: 56,113 Stories: 11 Poems 32 Illustrations, photography, and more: ???? (I don't feel like counting them all, but it's a good amount) Size: 6x9
Now, with the ebooks, there will be a few doodles that might not make it in. Mostly, there's just a couple little things that might not work as well (side border design things). However, all the main doodles, photos, and full art will be just fine. It's going to be an easy, but tedious task that I've done enough by now.
Shout out to TBB peeps mention Affinity. My partner ended his adobe subscription (which I am very happy about). However, I was like "Oh...Oh no!" Now I had to figure something else out for layout stuff. I was messing with Scribus. It's not bad. It's great, but it just felt so much more tedious, so I was stalling. I got way further way faster on Affinity. And no, I did not use an AI stuff because like...ew. No thanks. I know how to do the things. I don't need that stuff to mess everything all up. I can do that by myself.
I still have some designing to do for the Make-A-Fairy Cards. I decided to give them TTRPG-ready stats. Yes, it'll generally be for dnd, but I hope conversion for other TTRPG things will work just fine. For further explanation of their abilities (instead of just naming their abilities), I'll have companion PDFs made, too. I have a place I'll be ordering from (different from where I'm getting prints made). I'll get that done by the end of the month.
All the stickers are printed, by the way. I also have a printer and have found some excellent paper for the prints (Okay, well, what I think is excellent paper, A-Sub)! However, my printer can be real nasty with lines when it comes to the Make-A-Fairies. So, I'll be ordering those from the wonderful Prints&Repeat. I love working with local businesses, and they've always printed high-quality stuff. A lot of my vendoring prints have come from them.
Anyways, that's all for now. I don't want to get too ranty. And I'm tired. I've been on the computer all weekend, so I'm logging off for a bit while I work on some things.
