Thanks so much for all your support during Booktopia! This has been an amazing experience for me, working with a bunch of other creators at the same time. There was a lot of great support and mutual aid behind the scenes as the creators talked with each other and helped make this a success. Our campaign ended with an incredible $10,823 in total, more than doubling our $4,000 goal and even managing to raise a little income!
I mentioned last time, but almost all this money goes right back into the product, and I hope to get you the best version I can! We managed to pass four stretch goals, and get over halfway to the next one! That means not only is Lesbians in Space coming to you, but also:
- We're paying all our anthology authors $0.02 more per word than our goal! - The anthology will have 5 illustrations! - Everyone who's getting the hardback version will get some fancyextras! If you haven't voted in the poll yet, make sure you do so! Thus far, the winners are: color illustrations, cover embossing, sprayed edges, and premium paper. I'll start looking at possible suppliers soon to figure out how many of these features (and more!) we can have. - We also got about halfway to our goal of paying ourselves (for the first time), so that means we even get to keep a little bit out of this campaign!
NEXT STEPS: First, BackerKit will charge your cards in the next day or so. If anything fails, don't worry that you won't get your rewards. Just go into your account and check your credit card information and they'll charge the card again.
Then, after about two weeks, BackerKit will transfer over the funds.
In the meantime, I already have my surveys pretty much created, and it will go through checking by the BackerKit folks in the next few days. Then I'll send them on to you!
When you get your survey PLEASE FILL THESE OUT AND RETURN SURVEY ASAP, especially if you are getting existing books from Space Wizard. As soon as you complete your survey, I can start figuring out what to ship out and how soon. If you missed something you wanted in the campaign, pretty much everything is available as an addon (including the hardcover and oracle cards) so you have a change to snag them. I'll also have a pre-order store up soon if you missed backing the campaign!
***Remember: if you backed both collab projects (mine and The Warm Machine) at a physical tier, you'll get your cards from each creator. I'll send my three cards with my order and Aimee will send hers with hers.***
Lesbians in Space itself will be coming to you around June 2025. Submissions are open for authors until December 31st, 2024, so get those stories written! We'll be looking through the entries as they come, and will hopefully finish our selections by end of January or February 2025, leaving plenty of time for final edits before production.
Alright, I think that's it for now. I started my annual apple butter production today while waiting for the campaign to finish, so if you find me at a local market in NC, I might have some to sell!
