Hello, everyone! Spike here, again!

With about 17 days left to fund, I'm just dropping in to let you folks know we've decided on our stretch goals, which will be added to the project page shortly!

On top of padding creator pay, we've decided to reward our backers when we hit the following milestones!

We love giving our books fun cover effects! Foils, sheens, glow-in-the-dark patches. For Failure to Launch, we'd love to do something with the smoke billowing out of the failing robot. We won't give you too many details, though; that would ruin the surprise!

We had to keep Failure to Launch's pagecount to around 300, for practical reasons; but that doesn't mean what didn't make the cut isn't worth seeing! If we hit $45k, we'll send out, during fulfillment, a free extra ebook comic to all backers!

A lot of backers ask us for durable, collectible, hardcover upgrades, and we're happy to oblige! If we hit $50,000, we'll provide a hardcover upgrade option during fulfillment, which will likely tack on a $10 or $15 upcharge, as well as extra shipping (for those backers who did not manage to score first-hour-only free domestic and reduced international shipping perks).

Skutch is the artist behind "The First Union," a Failure to Launch story made in partnership with YouTuber Hbomberguy. And if we hit $55,000, we'll offer an add-on poster, featuring the legendary Ned Ludd! The rough image is below!

This limited edition poster will feature text elements lauding the history of resistance and righteousness of the Luddite mission. Display it proudly, and be ready at any time to explain the strange man in the paper crown and housedress, smashing autolooms!

And FINALLY.

ALL our first-day backers get themselves a swanky enamel pin to commemorate their support of the project, but if we hit $60k? All backers with a physical order, PERIOD, will receive this pin with their order! The initial design is pictured below!

And THOSE are our stretch goals! We're mere hundreds away from fulfilling the first, so we hope we can meet the challenge of reaching the rest as well!

Thank you again for your support so far, folks, and please continue to spread the word of this project far and wide!