Slightly impertinent: I've just added a new gift for any backers feeling particularly flush in the net two weeks. Pledge $1,000 for a full-page advertisement in Cadence & Slang. I've waffled on the idea of advertising for a long time, although I'm already devoting a page in the book towards listing and thanking all of my backers. After a few conversations on the topic, I decided to pull the trigger on it. If you know anybody that's looking for some novel, long-term advertising, by all means send them my way.
Mostly pertinent: Should Cadence & Slang become fully funded, I'd like to talk about the future of this project: what will happen, and when. Note that most of these dates are worst-case estimates; many will happen sooner.
December 04: We pass $9,800 in pledges. I write a tearful thank-you to my backers. I place incoherent phone calls that involve a lot of yelling. I write incoherent text messages that involve a lot of emoji.
December 05: My friend and I throw an annual holiday beer tasting for our closest friends, which we've spent the past fifteen months preparing for. I do not cry tears of bitter sorrow into a beer of which only 300 bottles exist.
December 06: I resume writing Cadence & Slang. (Per the previous post, I'm not writing for the next two weeks to focus entirely on fundraising.)
December 07: I send emails to those who ordered usability reviews, requesting more information for what they want me to review, and developing individual timelines with each one of them. I also set up a page for people to pre-order Cadence & Slang who, heaven forbid, didn't back my project in time.
December 20: Amazon removes the hold on my Kickstarter funds and they hit my bank account, which will go above $80 for the first time in two years. At this point I plan to move them into a savings account or short-term CD, for I won't be actually spending your money on printing and shipping until mid-to-late 2010. (If you have any good suggestions on where to conveniently store around ten thousand dollars for a short period of time, let's talk. I know a lot about interaction design, but very little about fiscal wonkery.)
February 01, 2010: I finish Cadence & Slang Mini, request your addresses, and mail out the copies. I'll also mail out the stickers at this point.
April 01: I finish the first draft of the entire manuscript, and send it on to a few friends and backers for revisions and editing. By this point I hope to be done with all of your usability reviews.
July 01: I finish writing Cadence & Slang and send the first draft off to the printer.
November 01: I receive the book from the printer, request your addresses again, and start shipping out your orders.
Partially pertinent: Some people have asked me how I came up with the figure of $9,800. I received a quote of $9,200 from my printer, and added $600 to account for shipping charges and mailing materials (bubble wrap, envelopes, etc) for both sets of books I ship (normal and Mini).

That $9,200 figure includes both printing the books and shipping them across the pond to me. (My printer has offices in both Chicago and Hong Kong.)
Cadence & Slang will be a perfect bound paperback, DIN A5 (which is a European printing size, equivalent to about ~5.8"x8.3"), offset printed at ~2,400DPI on natural-colored paper with a laid finish.

Which is all a long way of saying: if this project gets funded, the book is going to look awesome.