Fulfillment will still begin on June 15th - have you filled out your backer survey? - but we can now show you the novellas in all their glory!
As a glamorous, charismatic crowdfund backer you shall have all four of these books made available for download or shipped to you on June 15th or very soon after.
But maybe you didn't back us, or know someone else who missed the crowdfund and would like to get these books!
Well, June 15th will also double as the official release date of WHAT ROUGH BEAST? by Bryn Hammond.
Each book will become available for pre-order directly through our website about a month in advance. Thank you so much for helping make these books possible! It really feels like Brackenbury Books is ascending to a whole new level with these.
Alright, our next update will be to confirm that fulfillment has begun. See you on the 15th!
In our last update we got ahead of ourselves about the crowdfund surveys being sent.
Turned out only the initial smoke test, sending surveys to 5% of our backers to make sure everything works as it should, had been sent.
A few minutes ago the other 95% of surveys were sent!
Once more, with feeling, surveys are for:
Paying shipping. (Vital!)
Updating or confirming your mailing address.
Updating or confirming your payment information.
and
Last minute additions of Add-On goodies to your order .
So please check your spam folders if you haven't seen your own survey, and let us know if something has gone missing.
IMPORTANT: If you are a digital backer wanting to upgrade to physical formats, Backerkit will briefly show shipping as being the maximum possible rate because it won't know where you are ordering from until you put in your address. Once you've done that, the shipping cost will adjust appropriately.
Finished files for all four books are with the printers, who are now busily doing their thing, and so...
Backerkit Surveys for New Edge Sword & Sorcery Novellas went out today!
Overall, surveys are for:
Paying shipping. (Vital!)
Updating or confirming your mailing address.
Updating or confirming your payment information.
and
Last minute additions of Add-On goodies to your order .
So please check your spam folders if you haven't seen your own survey, and let us know if something has gone missing.
IMPORTANT: If you are a digital backer wanting to upgrade to physical formats, Backerkit will briefly show shipping as being the maximum possible rate because it won't know where you are ordering from until you put in your address. Once you've done that, the shipping cost will adjust appropriately.
****EDIT***
🧠Sara The Very Smart Fulfillment Person We Work With For A Reason tells us we've only sent out...
...THE SMOKE TEST...
...meaning like 5% of backers are getting their surveys to test things out before we send the other 95%. 🙃
Sorry for the mix-up, and we'll be very loud about it when we send that 95%!
FULFILLMENT BEGINS JUNE 15th
Because things got delayed a bit, the books will arrive with us right before our fulfillment person takes a short, well-earned vacation. Not wanting to split a few orders before and most after the vacation, we're playing it safe by beginning to ship everything on June 15th.
Digital fulfillment begins on June 15th as well because of Backerkit's "All at once" fulfillment system.
COVERS HAVE BEEN SIMPLIFIED. ALSO: THE DINKUS
When doing final layout for the printer your brave publisher here felt that the "NEW EDGE SWORD & SORCERY NOVELLAS" bar at the bottom made the covers a bit too crowded, especially for THE HUNT... and SUPLEX & SORCERY. So those were removed, the bottom text on THE HUNT... made more legible, and so here we are - the final cover designs!
You know those symbols, sometimes a simple # and other times a small illustration, that are used to indicate breaks in a manuscript? They have the best possible name - a dinkus.
The plural is "dinkus'" but we prefer "dinkiiiii".
As with everything we do at Brackenbury Books we've been intentional in the dinkus' we've designed for the three novellas in this set which use them. For example, above you'll see the dinkus we're using for SUPLEX & SORCERY, a line running between two posts like the ropes on a wrestling ring...
BACKERS GET ALL FOUR BOOKS SHIPPED TO THEM, STARTING JUNE 15TH
...but the public at large will see a gradual release as follows:
You should have recieved an email confirmation with your tracking number (except for a handful of you only recieving art, which I sent via regular postage). If you didn't, please let me know.
A WORD TO MY INTERNATIONAL BACKERS: Postage is bonkers these days. I'm sure you've noticed. Rates increased almost double compared to what they were when I started my campaign almost a year ago. There's something going on with tariffs and I don't exactly know what it means or how it will affect your country. Please let me know if you get hit with anything unexpected, questionable, or unsavory, and we can figure it out together.
And to those of you who backed at the highest level with the Meet and Greet, I'll be sending out a calendar sign up next week!!
I'm still figuring out how Backerkit works, and I hit the wrong button, and it marked every package as shipped. They have NOT all shipped yet. If there's a tracking number next to your package, it has shipped! If there's not, it has not, BUT--every package should be out by this Friday!!
