Monday with 264% Funded!
Good morning, all! It is Monday, and we are only $39 away from the $4K goal, which will allow me to redo the covers from Books 1 and 2 of the series to match Book 3. I have attached a photo of my mock-ups! They're in reverse chronological order; the one on the left is Black Blossom, which incorporates both some of the darkness from the Admonishments (in the middle) and the brightness of the Aphorisms (at the right). I've also added a mock-up for the front and back of Black Blossom which... I was bored with. So my daughter and I went to Barnes & Noble and photographed All The Books! From the back! Which probably perplexed people walking past us. But I came home with a lot of good fodder for creativity. There are some novel and fascinating things being done with book packaging right now (I especially like the steampunk novels that have backs designed to evoke broadsheets--very clever!)
Anyway, if you missed the weekend's fun you can check the previous update for links to the video and the Black Blossom audiobook teaser. My goal for this week is to get the manuscript variously to the copy-editors, the audiobook producer, and the layout professional. I'm about a third of the way through my planned edits, so that will probably happen by Wednesday. For those unfamiliar with my process... by now the book has been through several editing passes in the process of writing and posting it, so what I'm doing now is making decisions about standardizing capitalization and italicizing foreign words, etc. Minor nitpicky stuff.
I've also settled on a $4K gift: calligraphy for your monitor and phone backgrounds! My plan is a single word on the right, large, on parchment (probably paisathi, "journeys," since the novel is the spiritual journey of several characters)... but if I hit $5K on the left I will add all of your names. In Ai-Naidari calligraphy. (You can see most of the alphabet here on the wiki.)
We're only halfway through the funding period! Let's see what the other half brings...! (Maybe a new computer for Mommy-artist? Squee!) As always, thanks for your support, and pass us along! :)
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