Digital formats will also go out today, later in the evening.
Due to bizarre printer issues, the bonus novelette 'zine will only be sent out in digital formats but backers will have the opportunity to get the physical format later. Further details below.
Hurray, it's Merry Shipmas! Books begin going out to backers today.
Please make sure you've filled out your Backer Survey. If you haven't then we can't ship you your books.
And when you get them, we'd love to see your pics of the books out in the world! Feel free to tag us on Facebook, Instagram, and/or Bluesky so we can know they're out there.
DARK SEA SILVER We've very proud to have funded Audrey Stolling's novelette featuring the mysterious, suspiciously long-lived giantess Lathra as a free extra to go with the novellas from this crowdfund. Later today the ePub & PDF will go out to all backers along with the digital formats of the four main books.
But something else mysterious means that we will not be shipping out a physical edition, not yet anyway. The printer we got our quote from....seems to have vanished from this Earth?! Meanwhile nobody else can match their price or the speed with which they offered to print the 'zine, not even close on either front. While we do plan to scrape up the difference and print it, to do so now would delay fulfillment of the four novellas by several weeks...
...and we're not doing that. We're shipping those novellas now, damn it!
So the plan is: everybody gets the digital edition today, and when we are able to print the physical edition anybody who backed this crowdfund will be able to get a copy from us through our store - we'll do an update here to let you know it's out, of course - and only have to pay for shipping, which will be minimal as the 'zine will be able to fit in a modest envelope, and weigh very little.
We're truly sorry about this, and have been scrambling for weeks to either find the original printer (???) or someone who could do what they did. Having run out of time, we think this is the best solution we can offer for now.
BLUE FIRE is the first ever Jirel of Joiry novella, written by Molly Tanzer, with interior art by Saprophial, Clade Mirya, and fantasy cartography by Caster Jones. Currently crowdfunding, this book has unlocked every stretch goal so far - double art, international shipping discount, spray edges (backers vote on the color), and a one page comic by Clade Mirya - and it still has over two weeks to go! Join us for the ride and don't miss those crowdfund exclusives: https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/brackenbooks/blue-fire-a-jirel-of-joiry-novella
ALRIGHT
Thank you so much helping us here at Brackenbury Books enter a bold new era. We think the new novellas are wonderful contributions to The Sacred Genre of Sword & Sorcery, and we can't wait to bring you more exciting books in the future/
