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Project Update: Cover Reveal: DOSSOUYE
This cover was painted by Trevor Ngwenya aka KUBO, and he is now hard at work on the other book we're crowdfunding, Dossouye: The Dancers of Mulukau aka The Novel.
A FEW FUN FACTS:
- Years after its original publication, Charles R. Saunders re-wrote "Agebewe's Sword" - the first Dossouye story - to better align with the tales that came after, and to tell a larger, longer story. It is this longer, more up-to-date version which will appear in our new edition of the short story collection.
- The average wordcount of the novellas we sell is 35,000 and we price their paperbacks at $15. Despite the wordcount, and thus pagecounts, of the Dossouye collection (55,000ish) and the novel (88,000ish) being much larger, we will be selling them both for $15 as well, for a total mass-market paperback pledge of $30.
We are doing to this to put our money where our mouth is regarding how strongly we feel it is important for the fantastic writing of Charles R. Saunders to be readily available and affordable. The ePub & PDF editions will come free with the mass-market paperbacks, and the digital editions will be sold seperatly for a total of $16 to get both books. - Further affordability is in reach as one of our early stretch goals will be our classic International Shipping Discount, saving $5 USD for Canadians and $10 USD for everyone else living outside the United States.
- We want these books to be affordable, but we won't be cheaping out! As is standard for our books, each Dossouye reprint will contain a full page B&W illustration by Palace Bloom. You may have seen her illustrations for Melissa Burlock's last two stories in New Edge Sword & Sorcery magazine. Here's two samples of her work:
Odds are pretty good one of our stretch goals will be to increase the amount of Palace's interior illustrations!
Okay, that's it for now but keep an eye out for more updates in the run-up to our launching the crowdfund on Thursday, November 5th at 8:30am EST!
Keep your sword sharp and your sorcery numinous,
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