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Bone Walker, Faerie Blood

Goodreads broke my RSS feed, oops!

My blog feeds into my Goodreads profile, but for some reason the last several posts didn’t come through. So I had to go in and change the feed to make it start working again! I know at least a couple of people read my posts via Goodreads, so HI GOODREADS PEOPLE! If you didn’t know already, lookit! I have a Kickstarter!

And apparently this has happened what with this week’s updates! 43 backers, 44 percent funded, $1,795 and holding! Still very good progress for the first week and I’m hoping we’ll crack 50 percent over the weekend. 😀

TOP ROW BABY

TOP ROW BABY

April 19, 2012 by
Bone Walker, Faerie Blood, Short Pieces

Tonight’s Kickstarter update: Should I break out more cookies?

Tonight’s numbers: 40 backers, $1,720 pledged, and we are at 43 percent funding! Given that we are only about three days in at this point, I believe that this can be summarized with one succinct word: FANTASTIC.

But! I got in a lovely little comment from a backer who says she’s willing to throw me more money if I open up new rewards that focus exclusively on ebooks–which raises the interesting question of how many of my other Warder universe ideas do I want to throw into this pot? I’ve already touched on these on this blog before, and in order of ease of adding to the project, these are:

  • The Elizabeth/Ross novella, already in progress
  • “The Blood of the Land”, my previous Drollerie short story, which came out in Defiance
  • The Millicent Merriweather origin story, still in planning stages
  • The tuba player story, also still in planning stages

Some of you have already told me you are going to support me when your next paydays arrive, and for that I thank you most kindly in advance! But if any of you might still be on the fence, let me know if additional shinies off this list would pull you in–OR, if you’ve already supported, if they’d tempt you to up your pledge! ‘Cause, y’know, if y’all are willing to do that, I will TOTALLY start adding new rewards!

The official update post is over here–drop a comment there or here! The official project page is here!

And again–though I’ll be saying this a lot over the next few weeks, it bears repeating every single time–thank you, THANK YOU ALL, for your support!

April 18, 2012 by
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Kickstarter update: Thirty-four percent!

I woke up this morning to discover that we’d cracked the $1500 mark! 32 supporters now, and 34 percent funding! This is an excellent place to be within the first two days of the project!

I’d like to give specific mad props to the folks who have claimed higher-tier rewards, because you all are going to have first crack at the extra novella I will be making available for patrons of this project!

Here, have a sample! For those of you who’ve been following my blog already, this is the first scene from the as of yet untitled novella about the psychic Elizabeth Breckenridge, who’s recruited by Ross Taggart to help him find out what murdered his Warder sister in Providence, Rhode Island.

Untitled Work in Progress

As with my last sample post, this link will click over to a PDF. This is publicly readable, too, in the hopes that if you’re not supporting the Kickstarter yet, you’ll consider chipping in–and if you ARE already supporting, take note, your pledge level CAN be changed! I’m just sayin’! 😉

One last thing though–if I get funding fast enough, or if we go over the goal especially, I will consider dropping this novella down to be a reward at the $50 tier. In other words, if you put in for both paperbacks of the novels, you’d get the novella too! So if you find that tempting, think about spreading the word!

April 18, 2012 by
Bone Walker, Faerie Blood

Kickstarter update! Sample chapters!

I am thrilled, thrilled I tell you, to report that within 24 hours of launching the Faerie Blood and Bone Walker Kickstarter, we’ve already cracked $1,000 in pledges. This means we are a quarter of the way there already. And to celebrate, I feel some sample chapters coming on! I’m going to post these as available to all comers, in the hopes that if you haven’t pledged yet, these will motivate you to do so!

If you haven’t read Faerie Blood yet, here, have Chapter 1!

If you have read Faerie Blood, I give unto you (the as of yet unedited, so this is the rough draft, y’all) Chapter 1 of Bone Walker!

Both links will take you to PDFs. Posting in that form for the sake of brevity of post, and for also ensuring that you won’t accidentally click on spoilers! Enjoy, all, and thank you for your support!

April 17, 2012 by
Bone Walker, Faerie Blood

The Faerie Blood/Bone Walker Kickstarter is now LIVE!

Ladies and gentlemen, I am thrilled to announce that the Faerie Blood and Bone Walker Kickstarter project is now LIVE! Clickie on the link to see the project, including the awesome video Dara put together for me, and the list of all the shiny rewards Kiri Moth and I will be offering!

Many thanks to David Sklar, Sarah Avery, and Gary Inbinder, my fellow former Drollerie authors, for providing such wonderful blurbs. Many thanks to JoSelle Vanderhooft who’ll be tackling the edits for Bone Walker as soon as I finish it, and to Kiri Moth for her ongoing amazing work on the cover art! Most of all, huge props to my beloved Dara for her excellent work on the video!

If you want to support the project, be advised that you will need an Amazon.com account for it to work, since that’s how Kickstarter collects its payments. If you do not have an Amazon account, please consider bribing a friend with an account to do it for you!

And even if you can’t support financially, spreading the word to your own blogs and journals, Facebook pages, Twitter feeds, Tumblrs, etc., will still be very, very helpful. So please, by all means, share the project link with unbridled abandon!

Let’s do this thing, people. And thank you all very, very much for your support!

April 16, 2012 by
Bone Walker, Faerie Blood

Kickstarter update!

I am delighted to report that as of last night, Dara handed me what we think will be the final version of the video for my Kickstarter project. We’re waiting on one last bit of feedback to see if Dara needs to tweak the text captions–but other than that, people, I’m about ready to have the nice folks at Kickstarter approve this thing. Once they do, I CAN GO LIVE.

I’ve lined up a bunch of lower-tier rewards geared around the ebook and print copies of Faerie Blood and Bone Walker, as well as the postcard and poster reproductions of Kiri Moth’s art. At the top of the lower tier of rewards, we’re talking an extra novella as well–this’ll be the as of yet untitled story of Elizabeth Breckenridge, my psychic, who must help Ross Taggart solve the murder of his Warder sister. I’ll be offering this as a reward since it’s already partly written, and I am confident I’ll be able to finish it up to offer for all y’all who might be thinking of supporting at high enough levels!

Limited upper tier rewards will feature the original preliminary sketches of the artwork of both books, as well as the pencil-and-ink original of the final artwork for both books. AND, I will be offering one of my two print copies of the Drollerie edition of Faerie Blood, signed by me of course, at this level as well. Everybody who throws in for any of this level of reward will also get everything up to the $100 level–i.e., both books, as well as the postcard, poster, and digital versions of the art.

And the highest-tier, crazytalk level rewards will involve things like getting your name on the Dedication page, or having a character named after you in the third book of the Faerie Blood trilogy, or if you’re feeling really ambitious, you can commission a Warder universe novella with a character named after you.

So yeah, we’re getting REAL close, so watch this space for events as they happen! And speaking of getting close, we’re ALSO closing in on the final cover art for Faerie Blood. Check it out, this is the last round of art that Kiri sent me!

Music By the Willow

Music By the Willow

April 14, 2012 by
Bone Walker, Faerie Blood

Test print copies of Faerie Blood! Whoa!

Okay, I say this entirely cognizant of how I am a big ol’ geek and of how much I loves me my ebooks: whoa, it gave me a bit of a shiver when userinfosolarbird brought me home these!

These, O Internets, are the only two print copies of the Drollerie edition of Faerie Blood that will ever exist. Dara and I have had Third Place Press print them up so that we could have a prop for the Kickstarter video we’re about to do–to show you exactly what the machine they use to make books can produce! And even knowing this, knowing these aren’t really the “official” printed copies of the book I’d like to share with you all, the sight of them still made me go holy crap this is a book with my name on it, in a way that the Drollerie ebook on my Nook or my iPad or iPhone never has.

userinfoapel has observed quite correctly to me on Twitter that there is a magic in tangible things, and I’m not at all immune to that even if so many of my books are in digital form these days.

I cannot wait to see the second edition of Faerie Blood, complete with Dara’s full layout and Kiri Moth’s awesome cover art, in this printed form. And I really hope y’all will get as big a kick out of it as I will, and jump in on the Kickstarter when it goes live! Join me, won’t you? Thank you!

March 31, 2012 by