Hi my lovely backers - thank you, thank you so much! The Nevermore Bookshop Linocut Special Editions are a go! We closed out with $65,550NZD in total funding - not quite enough to hit our next stretch goal, but enough to create some gorgeous special editions.
So what happens next? Over the next two weeks Backerkit will take payments. Most of you will have been charged immediately. For those who run into payment issues, you'll be able to update your credit card/payment details so that your payment can go through - Backerkit will remind you. Those on pay-over-time, your first instalment will come out now, too.
In roughly two weeks I will get all the funds, and then we can start ordering things!
Samantha (my formatter) is working on interior formatting now for all five books. Once that's done, we kick the files over to Holly, who will finish off the back covers and spines, and then we'll be able to send the files off to the printer (I'm hoping in November we'll be able to put in our order - it might be earlier but I'm away all of October so I'm trying to offer a sensible timeline). Printing and shipping the books takes the longest, so once those are ordered, we'll get onto ordering everything else, like art prints, stickers, and stamps – we do it this way so that we don't have lots of stuff lying around in my two storage places for months.
I am on a tough writing deadline right now, but soon we'll start organising the survey so you can choose things like the art prints you want.
I am super excited to bring these books to life for you!
In the meantime, while you wait, I have a new release, You're So Vein, coming out September 29th. It's a fun rivals-to-lovers, vampire vs human mayoral campaign romance (yes, that's a thing!) Here are all the places where you can pre-order in ebook, print, and audio.
And for those of you who have asked, Holly is about to start work on the rest of the book covers in the series, which means that next year, you'll be able to complete your set!
Hi my lovely friends, I can't believe there are only three days left on the Nevermore Bookshop Linocut Special Editions. What a whirlwind it's been!
We've just hit our next stretch goal of $55,000NZD, which means that everyone who has the tarot cards included in their order will be getting an extra card included – Grimalkin, the bookshop's fiesty feline. I'll put Kristi to work immediately drawing up this beauty, but for now, have a look at some of the other cards you're getting:
Tarot designs - the card on the right is the back of the cards. All the borders are foiled.
If you haven't backed, do it now!
If you're a backer and you don't have the tarot cards in your reward, you can add them on! All the cards are double-sided and foiled, and they join together with the set of Fangs for Nothing tarot cards. Each time I do a crowdfunding campaign I'm adding new cards to create a full Nevermore Bookshop themed deck. It's going to be stunning
NEW STRETCH GOAL: If we hit $70,000NZD by the end of the campaign, I'll add another tarot card – this one will be Mrs Ellis, everyone's favourite blue-haired, lustful busybody!
Can we do it? I believe it! TELL YOUR FRIENDS - they all need linocut special editions in their lives! Love, lust, and graveyard dust, Steff
Wooooooohoooooo, we did it! The campaign has been live for three days and already we smashed the first achievement stretch goal - now every backer will get a set of Quoth the Raven wax seals as part of their package.
We've ordered a sample of these so I'm hoping we'll have a picture to show you soon (things take a loooooong time to get to New Zealand.
In the meantime, let's talk about our next stretch goal.
I have this wild idea to create a full 28-card tarot deck using all the characters from the Nevermore Bookshop world. We did 8 cards in my last Kickstarter for Fangs for Nothing (you can nab them as add-ons here if you didn't catch that one), and we've got four cards in this campaign...but what if we added more?
If we hit $55k NZD, we will have our amazing tarot artist, Kristi Zeyn, create a fifth card – this will be the black cat, Grimalkin, who inhabits Nevermore Bookshop and may be more than she appears.
If you have the tarot set as part of your reward or as an add-on, you'll get this fifth card included.
CAN WE DO IT? We're at $42k today and we still have 30 days left, so I reckon so. Please share the campaign with your bookish friends and tell them about the Bonkers Romance Book Fair - we're having a blast over here :)
If you could have any upgrade or new fancy thing as an achievement stretch goal, what would you want? I am here to make your kooky, spooky dreams come true :)
THANK YOU SPOOKYBATS! Thanks to your amazing support (shout-out to you early-access backers!) we actually hit my $20k NZ goal before the Backerkit launched! That's incredible, and is such a testament to how much you all love this kooky, spooky series about getting railed by fictional villains from classic literature in a quirky bookshop :).
From the bottom of my wee goth heart, THANK YOU.
Now that our basic funding is covered, the fun REALLY begins.
I've set a new 'Achievement' stretch goal - this is an extra goal for funds raised. If we hit it, you get extra goodies. I have four achievement stretch goals to unlock in total. Can we get them all?
Our first goal is for a set of wax seal stickers featuring everyone's favourite raven, Quoth. I have a set of the stickers on the way, and once they arrive, I'll share a picture. But they are super cute and feature the Quoths from the chapter headers, and they're just like normal stickers on the back but they look and feel like wax seals on the front.
If we hit $40,000NZD (about $23.500USD) I'll add a set of stickers to everyone's order! We're got the rest of the month, so I reckon we can do it.
Help us hit this goal by sharing the Nevermore Bookshop campaign with your bookish friends! Love, lust, and graveyard dust, Steff
THANK YOU THANK YOU to all my incredible Patreons and Reserved followers who are snapping up your Nevermore goodies early! We're nearly halfway to our goal already and we haven't even technically "launched" yet!
You are loving the art prints in particular!!!! This makes me so happy.
This is the first time we've used Backerkit, and we're trialling all the features – it's fun seeing you all being excited about the early access and it also allows us to work out the kinks before we go live!
Kink number 1 (dirty!) is that we somehow missed that we don't have all of our goodies as add-ons. We're fixing that this morning so you'll be able to add on extra books, Ex Libris stamps, and art prints. If you wanted any of those things and they weren't there, check back in a few hours or tomorrow and you'll be able to add them on.
Kink number 2 is that I totally forgot to let everyone know that you can PAY OVER TIME – if you pledge over $150USD, when you go to checkout you get the option to pay in four instalments.
THANK YOU THANK YOU! It's so amazing to have you all here, loving and supporting Nevermore Bookshop. You have no idea what it means to me. I can't wait to get these pretty books into your hands. Steff
