Hi everyone! Dan Edwards from Kickstarter here! I've already mailed out about 3/4 of the copies of Mr. McFrawley's Traveling Show and the rest are going out tomorrow. Thanks again for your support. It blows my mind that this project went from "I'll putter around on this and see what happens" to "It's ON!" almost entirely as a result of your support. You've altered the entire trajectory of my career, and for that I have lots of love for you all!

In looking at the "Backer Report" Kickstarter provides, I noticed that some of you pledged at the end of March in 2010. That means that from ordering to receiving, some of you had to wait nearly a year. I apologize for the book taking longer than I expected, but I have included a few things to make it up to you.

1) Everyone got an upgrade in the number of tarot cards that came with your order.

2) The book DOUBLED IN LENGTH. It's now 64 pages long and has over 50 illustrations. I like to think you got even more than you paid for!

I'd love to hear what you all think when your copy comes in.

A couple of housekeeping issues: For those of you who ordered the oversized prints of pages of the book, the shipping tubes will be in later this week, so those'll ship separately once they come in.

The Read Along version will be finalized soon. I'll be delivering that as an mp3 link to expedite delivery! You've all waited long enough. Anyone who wants it in CD form, please contact me and I'd be glad to take care of that for you!

I will be putting together an iPad version of the book with the Read Along audio in the near future. I'll also be putting up a YouTube video of the first act of the story with audio and some animation in the next few months, just to help drive interest. Check the blog or join my mailing list to find out more!

For any friends or family who sees your copy and might like their own, please send them to http://www.dsedwards.com/buy.html

Last but not least, I'm working on a new book. I'll be putting that project up on Kickstarter, too, but I'm going to wait until I'm closer to finished this time! If you'd like to keep up with this project, please check out the blog or reply here to join my new mailing list! It's going to be very infrequent (the blog will be my main form of communication), so please join to find out when my new book will be available! I'll try not to bug you very often.

Thanks again!

Dan

I'll be off to the printer's tomorrow I hope. Thanks so much for your patience. I'm hoping this is really going to be something special!

Dan

Hi everyone!

Dan here, back again to give an update to those of you who haven't been following the tumblr blog about my book!

First off, your money is safe and sound and in good hands. You may remember that we reached funding on June 1st and I set the tentative goal of a Halloween completion. At the time, I had maybe 8 illustrations done. I now have, including the promotional tarot cards and the scratchboard pieces that I did as a reward to some of you kind backers, well over 50 illustrations done.

I do not, however, have the book done. As those of you who are following the blog can attest, I've posted over 30 illustrations since June. The book has grown (as perhaps first books are likely to do?) beyond the initial 32 pages to what is likely to be a 48 page final product. See, I had a story mapped out, and darnit, I wasn't about to start cutting stuff. Also, when I draw something that looks good, I really want to see it colored and on glossy paper!

I apologize that this has put me behind schedule, but I'm sure you'll see where the extra care has gone during these very long last five (5!?) months.

As you may know, I lost my job making terrible banner ads back on August 30th, so for the past two months I have been eating, sleeping and breathing this book. Instead of completing one or two illustrations a week, I've been averaging more than three. I know, after all, that I only start making money again once it's completed and for sale in as many places as humanly possible. I'm very happy with that course of events - I'm only saying it here so you'll realize that my motivation to keep working and to make a phenomenal finished product are of even greater importance to me, both creatively and financially, than ever before.

Thanks again for your support. The book will be done within the next two weeks. After that, it is up to the printing company, but I see no reason why it won't be delivered to you by the end of November.

And to my friends who I haven't seen in five months, I look forward to getting together once all is said and done, putting our feet up and having a nice long visit.

Thank you!

Dan
dsewards.com
http://thedekaytarot.tumblr.com/

You don't get to see things like this!

I hope you all got a chance to see the new art I posted to the blog last weekend. This week has been a busy one, but I'm doing a lot of sketching right now and I'm about a fifth of the way done another new page. I'll keep you posted! In the meantime, we have a few new backers. Thanks to the new backers for joining us (and thanks to the earlier backers, as well) - and Susan, every little bit is great! I'm not bringing a large existing following with me to Kickstarter, so getting to $5,000 is quite a challenge. Every $5 helps so much, so thank you!

I'm having a great time with this, and every day something happens to bring this just a little bit closer to completion! I hope everyone is enjoying this spring! I'll be in touch.

Thank you all!
Dan

This project has been up for about 30 hours and is already 18% funded! I'm so excited about the progress! Thanks to all the backers from my life, former co-workers, former students, my friends, and of course, my mom, and thanks to all the backers who have just seen the work and think it's worth seeing in print! I look forward to sharing with you and getting to know you all as well!

I've been working on illustrations for the book tonight - they are going really well and I'm having a great time. I'm also recording another time lapse of the work, which I'll post when the new illustration is complete!

I'd like to remind everyone to check out the blog I've been building at tumblr, including my time lapse of The Hermit tarot card. It's sped up to between 15,000 and 20,000% regular speed, so the 8 hour illustration comes together in just about a minute.

http://thedekaytarot.tumblr.com/

Thanks again for your interest. I'm going to try to make sure that this process is well documented, so you can see how I work, when I work, what I think, and where this is going! Enjoy your Sunday!