Hello,

Finished files for all four books are with the printers, who are now busily doing their thing, and so...

Overall, surveys are for:

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.

🧠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%!

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.

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.

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...

...but the public at large will see a gradual release as follows:

WHAT ROUGH BEAST? - JUNE 15TH

SUPLEX & SORCERY - JULY 14TH

THE BARBARIAN AT DREAM'S END - AUGUST 11TH

THE HUNT OF A THOUSAND LEAGUES - OCTOBER 6TH

A very special project we've been working toward almost as long as we've been publishing will finally be crowdfunding in June, and you can sign up now to make sure you're alerted upon launch! New details will be revealed on the sign-up page between now and then... Click on this paragraph to go there.

Keep your swords sharp and your sorcery numinous,