I normally don't like to flood my backers with updates. I prioritize my incoming emails just as much as you do, and I don't want you to get into the habit of ignoring my updates because you're just getting so many of them.

I remember one campaign from the (much) earlier days of Kickstarter, where the creator would literally post an update very day, even if it consisted of only one, pointless word. Evidently, he had read somewhere (on Kickstarter itself, I think) that you should update your backers frequently to make sure they stay engaged. Those were the days before it became a fact of life that backers supported so many campaigns at once that there was no way you could keep up with frequent updates from every campaign you backed. So that's not how I roll.

But still, I always post an update to commemorate when we hit our target — and we just did! I don't think we've hit our funding target so quickly since my first Kickstarter a decade ago. Amazing. So I want to take a moment out of our day to thank you for helping us get here, and so quickly at that.

Now I can go back to writing The Book of Plagues. And you can always keep up by subscribing to my Substack blog, "I Think We've Been Playing It Wrong."