The surveys are about 90 percent finished. I have just a few more items I want to add, and I need to photograph those before I can list them properly.
I’m also having a hiatal hernia repair next Tuesday. It’s a routine surgery with a fairly quick recovery time, so I expect to be back on my laptop by Thursday.
You can expect surveys to go out by the end of next week or early the following week.
I also intentionally held off on sending surveys early because I knew everyone would be getting a flood of Pintopia surveys at the same time, and I wanted to spread mine out a bit so it didn’t get lost in the chaos.
The Secret Night Market for Readers has officially come to an end. Thank you for showing up, sharing, pledging, and making this campaign such a success.
By now, most backers have likely already been charged for their pledge. If you haven’t seen the charge yet, it should process soon.
📋 Next Step: Surveys
The next thing you’ll receive is your backer survey. This is where you will:
Confirm your shipping information
Pay for shipping
Add any additional add-ons to your order
I’m currently working on building out the surveys and my goal is to release them on February 19th.
I’m prioritizing getting these out as quickly as possible because I’d like to begin production as soon as surveys are completed and finalized.
Once surveys go live, I’ll send another detailed update with:
Exact survey deadlines
Shipping timelines
Production estimates
Any other important dates you need to know
We’re officially moving into production mode, and I’m so excited to bring these designs to life.
With just about six hours in the campaign, here's my final update about what's coming today and post campaign.
🖤 The Black Market
As we head into the final hours of the campaign, ending today at 4PM EST, I wanted to share a graphic showing what’s being added to our final stall, The Black Market Stall. ( see graphic below)
Some of these designs are still in progress and will not be fully finalized before 4PM, but I do want to show you what's being worked on and what's coming still.
While some pieces in this stall lean political or focus on banned books, not everything will. The Black Market is a catch all for bookish pins of any genre or theme. If it applies to readers, it belongs here.
Here’s what’s included:
📌 Reading Is Political
Black dyed metal with soft enamel. Simple, direct, and not overly decorative. Just a small statement pin for your bag, jacket, or hat.
📚 Ban Fascists, Not Books
This comes in either a gold plated or silver plated option. It's hard enamel and features either pearl or glitter enamel and UV printed details.
🎧 New Audiobook Pin
Not everything in this stall is political or about banned books though. This is a screenshot of a new audiobook design, currently in progress in Illustrator.
📦 Two New Bag of Books Trinkets
Two additional mini trinket designs joining the stall.
Even if some artwork is not fully finalized before the campaign closes, all designs shown will be completed, and I will share finished versions in a future update.
These will be available as pledge level pin options and as add ons in the post campaign survey.
📝 What’s in the Survey That Is Not on the Campaign Page
The post campaign survey will include expanded options such as extra campaign pins, past popular designs, stickers, bookmarks, and possibly other accessories.
BackerKit’s campaign page has limited customization, so the survey allows me to offer more flexibility and add on combinations.
We are almost at the finish line. If you have been waiting to pledge or adjust your selections, now is the time.
There are just about 24 hours left to back the campaign and lock in your pins, plus all eligible free rewards before the Night Market closes its doors.
If you’ve been waiting to adjust your pledge, add that one more design to your cart, or finally jump in… this is your moment.
✨ The main designs for the Cozy Nook Stall are now live!
You can scroll down to check them out below. I also added a new graphic showing all unlocked and currently available designs, and there are still more coming before we close.
Tonight I’ll be uploading:
The Cozy Nook tiny trinket designs
A preview of some designs from the Black Market Stall
We’re ending this the same way we started it — live designing, unlocking, and adding a little extra magic right up to the very end.
Thank you all for making this market feel so alive 🖤📚
The Magic Menagerie stall is officially complete 🐉✨
You can now find all of the Magic Menagerie pins on the campaign page, or scroll down below to check them out together.
Each stall in this project is supposed to have around 2–3 main designs, but I will be honest, I got a tiny bit carried away with Magic Menagerie. Between the number of designs and the different variants, it definitely stretched my time more than I expected.
What's Unlocked
Everything currently on the campaign page, as well as anything added between now and the end of the campaign, is fully unlocked. We have already reached the funding level needed to open the remaining two stalls and unlock their designs.
What’s coming next?
Based on the poll results, the Cozy Nook Stall will be the next stall to open ☕📚 However, during the final three days of the campaign, I will be doing something a little chaotic and opening the Black Market stall at the same time while working on both stalls simultaneously.
Full transparency, I genuinely did not think Cozy Nook would win the poll. I was so sure it was going to be either The Smut Peddler or The Fortune Teller’s Bindery, so this one surprised me a bit.
About the other stalls
As it stands right now, The Smut Peddler and The Fortune Teller’s Bindery likely will not make it into the final lineup for this project and will instead be saved for a future bookish campaign.
That said, if I manage to complete one or two designs from either of those stalls before surveys go out, I will make them available either as options for your pledge level pins or as a campaign add-on.
Thank you, as always, for being patient with my very live designing brain and for letting this project evolve in real time. I am excited to dive into Cozy Nook next 💛 Keep checking back over the next three days because I will be adding designs to the stalls as they are completed.
