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Update: The Year Ahead

Update #17 · Jun 10, 2012 · 1 comment

So, sorry it has taken me this long to do an update since the end of my campaign. My life has been crazy, what with unemployment, job-hunting, freelancing, oh, and a bout of vertigo..... that was a fun 3 days.

But now I am ready to start giving everyone regular updates on the progress of the book, and when to expect things. But there is one caveat: because of my un-planned-for unemployment, and the decreasing liklihood that I will be remaining a resident of Baltimore for very long, I am concerned that my transition to a new job and city is going to eat in to book-making time. Hopefully this will not be the case, and my plan is to stick with the plan, but I just wanted to put that out there, just so people are aware of it.

When will the book be done?

My plan is to have "The Book of Wizards" fully illustrated, written, designed and printed before the San Diego Comic-con of the summer of 2013. Not this year, but next year, late July or thereabouts. I think some people thought it was going to be this summer, so I just wanted to clear that up. So I will start sending everyone's books right after the convention, or if you are going to be AT the convention, you can just swing by my table and I will hand it/them to you! I tried to set a realistic goal so as not to have to risk disappointing all of my amazing backers.

What about the other books? The Book of sketches, the map, the anthology?

Those will come around the same time, maybe before, maybe a bit after, depends on how time-consuming the main book is. Ideally, I would be sending everyone who is getting physical copies of these books all of these items at the same time, but obvioulsy I want to place priority on the main book first. The map might come well after the other books, since I imagine it being fairly labor intensive, but I would safely say before the end of 2013.

What about the screensaver?

I want to get that done this month! I will be talking to my designer about helping me out with it and designing the font/logo for the Book of Wizards. I will send another update on that shortly.

So, off to the races! It's going to be a crazy year, but so worth it!!! Thanks again! More updates soon!

-Sean

 

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      Creator Matthew Hemphill on June 10, 2012

      I think we'll all understand if there are delays. Unemployment happens.

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