In romance, we don't like it with somebody messes with the HEA.

I debated on the H for a little bit...thought maybe I'd do historical. I even thought about doing hockey.

But then it dawned on me...romance is all about the HEA. In a pin campaign celebrating the romance genre, how can I not include something that talks about the HEA?

Book genres are defined by certain characteristics.

Mysteries will have mystery.

Historicals will be set in the past.

Murder mysteries will involve murder.

And romance will involve a couple (**or throuple/more) falling in love and finding their HEA or HFN (Happy for Now).  Romance lovers want that satisfying conclusion at the end, knowing the people they've come to know will find their person(s) and make it work.  Things don't always work out in life and there aren't always HEAs.

But we can find them in some places - and a romance in one of those.

Every once in a while there's a kerfuffle in the online spaces known as romancelandia where a writer-typically newish to the romance genre-will announce they're putting a 'new' spin on the romance genre.  This 'new spin' is a 'love story' without the HEA.

Romancelandia has spoken out, loudly, against this every time somebody tries to reinvent our quite lovely wheel.

A few years ago, during one of these blow-ups on twitter, one of these writers was insisting nobody could tell her what to write.

That's true. But likewise, she can't insist her 'love story without the HEA' is still a romance and think romance lovers are gonna be cool with it. Which is pretty much what I said. And I added something along the lines of "This is romance. It's HEA or GTFO."

When I was going through my ideas for the various letters, I kept going back to H and realized why.  Because...well, we're talking romance.

It stops with the HEA.

And that's how I wanted to end this first pin campaign...with the HEA.

That being said, I'm going to have all pin designs, A-H, available for backers.  G is mocked up and I'm discussing it with the artist, so you'll see the final in an update before I send out surveys.

The H...or the HEA, is already done.

Hello friends!

I just sent out the survey to everyone. Please fill it out as soon as you can so I can get my counts and start ordering all of the designs. If you still need to fix your credit card, please do that ASAP so I can get the survey sent out to you. If you don't fix your card or fill out your survey, you won't receive any of your pins or the slew of free rewards which is a bummer!

There is only one new additional design for a cutie book design. This is a limited edition pin and I'll only make as many that are ordered!

If you missed out on pledging during the campaign, the preorder store will be open for about 2 weeks. It will only be open a short time so I can make sure I get all the correct counts to order for the designs. Visit the preorder store here!

You'll also see a question in the survey about my next campaign that is launching on March 29th: A Gothic Revival. Please let me know what kinds of designs you'd like to see in this gothic, vampiric campaign. I've been designing up a storm for it and I'm thrilled with how it's coming together.

Thank you all so much again for your support on this campaign! I'm so excited to get all of these pins made. 

XO,
Nikki

Just an FYI...the surveys have gone out!

If you've finished yours, awesome.

If not, please do so when you have a chance.

Thank you!

Now that thats out of the way,
Hi everyone!
Survey smoke tests have been sent, and surveys will go out to everyone between today and tomorrow. If you have received a smoke test survey (only 15 backers will have received these) please let me know if there is anything amiss!
Now, this update WILL BE VERY IMAGE HEAVY- I will be adding images of all the items and add-ons so you can see them in a larger size than they appear in the pledge manager.

I know a lot of you were waiting for the pledge manager to see all the add-ons, since i kept adding them during the campaign! Thank you so much for being so patient, and i hope you love the variety of the items i made for you and i cant wait to show you the results!
You will also have available many items from my previous bookish collections if you'd like to save on shipping.
(unless you pay via paypal, which charges you right away) Add-ons will only be charged in 1/2 months, so you have plenty of time to add more items and save up for the ones you'd like to get, but please FILL OUT YOUR SURVEYS ASAP! I need to have about 80% of surveys filled to order the items from my manufacturer so i know how many of each design to order! <3

Please let me know if theres anything i missed and you'd like to see!
Have a great week,
Saphira

Ok! Smoke test is out. A smoke test is a survey sent to a few random people so that we can make sure everything works right. So far, It's looking like it's good! So as long as there are no issues, the survey goes out tomorrow  (Saturday) afternoon.

1. There is a limited edition 50 jellybean pin in the survey add-ons. You can only get it in the survey. It's limited to 1 per backer, first come first served.

2. Fix your payment. You won't get a survey until your payment is fixed, or it's been 2 weeks. So If you'd like the grab the LE bean, you'll need to fix your payment before you'll get a survey.

3. Once you receive your survey, just fill it out! Payments won't be charged until surveys close March 12th. You can make changes to your survey until it closes and charges on march 12th!

4. After you choose your rewards, you will go to the add-on section. you can grab one if the LE worm beans there!

5. You can get a coupon code for $3 credit on an item in my palmstreet store. The coupon code is in your survey!! But It expires on March 13. So If you're late on your survey... it will expire. So make sure to do the survey soon.

6. It's my Birthday so giving you $2 credit! check the backers only section of this message for the code.


Thank you so much and Im so excited to see the pins that are you favorite. You're all amazing. xo Stina