bone walker kickstarter

Backer #82 just came in (hi Kaye and thank you very much for your support!), and this brings us to 84 percent with two weeks to go on the project!

We still have time, but as I’ve said before, we can’t get complacent here!

Backer Soula found my project page on Kicktraq yesterday, and Kicktraq thinks I’m going to go over with a lot of room to spare–but that won’t happen unless pledges keep coming in! So if you’d like to help make Kicktraq’s prediction come true, and especially if you’d like to get your hands on the soundtrack, keep the signal boosted. Tell your Facebook friends. Tell your tweeps on Twitter. Tell Google+ and your blogs and mailing lists and forums and anywhere else you think might be appropriate to spread the word!

Speaking of that soundtrack, I’ll tell you this–Dara showed me some lyrics snippets she was writing last night for a little ditty she’s thinking will be called “Anarchy Now”–a song of the Free Court of Seattle. I took one look at those and immediately knew what I’ll need to be reading right in front of that, when we put this soundtrack together.

Seriously, you guys, do you know how awesome it is to have your partner writing music to go along with a book that’s coming out of your very own head? I’ll share some lyrics with you when Dara gets them to a shareable state!

(What’s the Free Court of Seattle? It doesn’t exist in Kendis’ universe, not yet–but it’s coming. There is a power shakeup coming between the Warders and the Sidhe, oh my yes. Muahaha.)

In closing: signal boost! Signal boost! Signal boost! And thank you again for all of your support and everything you do!

A few new backers came in this afternoon, and brought the project very, very close now to the 80 percent mark! This is getting seriously exciting, people. Still two weeks to go and we’re already coming down the homeward slope to full funding.

And now I can share with you these teaser tidbits for who have jumped in to participate on the Faerie Blood and Bone Walker soundtrack!

We do of course have my very own Dara, who has already flexed her considerable musical muscle with her work under the banner of Crime and the Forces of Evil. In addition to commanding the studio equipment, Dara will also unleash her bouzouki Kohaku and every other instrument in her arsenal. She’s already writing chord progressions for music to fit in with Bone Walker, people, and do you know how fabulous it is to hear someone writing music for a story coming out of your very own head? Pretty damned fabulous, that’s how.

We’ll have Sunnie Larsen, mistress of violin and viola, a fixture in the local pagan, folk, and filk music circles. She’s played with the likes of Bone Poets Orchestra, Tricky Pixie, Vixy and Tony, and more!

And we’ll have Leannan Sidhe providing her haunting vocals! She and Dara have performed and worked together, and I’m here to tell you, I can’t imagine a more appropriately-named performer to be joining us on this project. I encourage you all to go check out her own ongoing Kickstarter, not only so that you can get an idea of what she sounds like for purposes of my soundtrack, but ALSO because her second album will be very, very worth your attention. Go check her out and tell her Anna sent you!

Please keep those pledges coming, folks, and if there are places you can signal-boost, do so! Don’t forget, when we get to backer #100, I’ll hand out another ebook copy of Faerie Blood‘s first edition. At the $3,500 mark, I’ll give out one of my two print copies of same, made by Third Place Press as our test run before we do the second edition and Bone Walker!

And at that point as well, I’ll announce what we need to get to in order to bring you not only the soundtrack, but Book 3 of Kendis’ trilogy as well! Stick around, and thank you all, thank you so very, very much, for your support!

Many thanks to incoming new backers today, especially to backer Cyn, who has pushed us over the $3,000 mark! Cyn therefore wins the Dramatic Character Death opportunity, and will get to consult with me on the character to be named as she chooses, in what story the character appears, and the manner of the character’s Dramatic Death!

But that’s not all, folks, because now that we have cracked the 75 percent mark, I can share with you a few more awesome things! First up, as promised, I present to you Chapter 3 of both Faerie Blood and Bone Walker!

Faerie Blood Chapter 3

Bone Walker Chapter 3

Second, and hopefully just as if not more enticingly, I will now make this initial announcement about the stretch goals that are in store if the project goes over its goal!

The first of this will be Book 3 of the Kendis books, as of yet untitled, which is still in the planning stages. Of this book, though, I can tell you this–part of it will be set in St. John’s, Newfoundland, and will provide some followup to the backstory of Warder Christopher MacSimidh, as well as some things I’m laying down in Bone Walker. I’m actually getting to visit St. John’s this summer, and am very, very much looking forward to seeing the place firsthand, in no small part so I’ll be able to portray it properly in the book!

And the second of these, about which my beloved Dara and I are both very excited, is a musical soundtrack to accompany the novels! We are in talks with musicians local to us who are interested in participating, and we will be using Dara’s own studio to record it. It promises to include not only several traditional sets that fit in well with the characters of the books, but also “Something’s Coming” out of Dara’s own work under the aegis of Crime and the Forces of Evil!

Don’t forget, though–the next backer, #75, will get a free ebook copy of the Drollerie edition of Faerie Blood, and I will keep handing those out to every 25th backer. And at the $3,500 mark, I’ll hand out one signed PRINT copy of the Drollerie edition of the book as well!

Many, many thanks to you all, and again, huge congrats to Cyn!

Big news for the morning! We have achieved the fifty percent mark, and are now standing at 52 backers and $2,055 pledged! Huge, huge thanks and congratulations to backer Glenn who kicked us over the line, and on whose behalf a free PDF copy of the original edition of Faerie Blood will be given to Lexi! Many thanks as well to backer Shanti for assisting in Glenn’s pledge!

Which brings me to the next topic of this update post! On the project’s main page, I’ve added in a few FAQ’s that have come my way, including how to support if you don’t want to pay through Amazon (short form: “consider getting a friend or family member with an Amazon account to pledge on your behalf”), when you will actually be charged money (short form: “if and only if the project is fully funded by its deadline of May 16th”), and when the best time to support would be (short form: “sooner is better than later!”) Click over to the project for the full list of FAQ’s and my answers, and if you have further questions that I haven’t covered, please feel free to drop comments on this post or use Kickstarter’s provided link on the project page to send a question in.

And now then, let’s talk milestone incentives! Since rolling over the 2K mark and hitting 50 supporters worked so beautifully, I am prepared to offer further incentives to encourage you all to keep those pledges coming. First of all, as previously promised for the 2K milestone, it is time to give you Chapter 2 of both Faerie Blood and Bone Walker! Behold PDF links!

Faerie Blood Chapter 2

Bone Walker Chapter 2

Where do we go next from here? Glad you asked!

I will offer continued free ebook copies of the original Drollerie edition of Faerie Blood, and the next one will be handed out to backer #75!

At the $2,500 mark, I will automatically update the backer who pushes me over that line to the next highest reward tier!

At the $3,000 mark, I will post Chapter 3 of both books!

At the $3,500 mark, the backer who gets me there will also get one of the two limited edition print copies of the Drollerie edition of Faerie Blood, along with all other selected rewards!

We are halfway there, people, and the project’s first week isn’t even over yet. Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU for your support! And remember, signalboosting has been scientifically proven to make you automatically 15 percent more awesome, so keep sharing the project link! Let’s see where we can get in week two!

We’re up to 45 backers and $1,825, and we’re 45 percent of the way there! And every last one of you who’ve chipped in so far are made of 100 percent, home-grown, pure organic awesome. It is a FACT, which I know because of my learnings!

And because of your general awesomeness, as I posted in my last update, I’ve dropped in that new all-ebook reward tier of $25, which will include both Faerie Blood and Bone Walker, as well as the previously posted short story “The Blood of the Land” and the in-progress Elizabeth/Ross novella. It is, therefore, time to share with you an excerpt from the short story!

The Blood of the Land Excerpt

This is another PDF link, and this one’s pretty short since the actual story is only about seven thousand words. I’m still putting it into PDF form though for the sake of brevity of post!

I’d like to extend particular thanks to all supporters who jump in despite having reservations about Kickstarter’s only allowed methods of payments are via Amazon. I very much respect why this might cause reservations, and deeply appreciate your support given anyway!

And remember, folks, even if you can’t support financially, signalboosting is love. It’s like handing cute little animals to the entire Internet! Or in my case, more excerpts–because we’re a scant $175 away from Chapter 2 of both books going up!

And, of course, the project lives right over here! Again, thank you all!