Joshua Kramer
CREATOR
12 days ago
Project Update: Pre-Orders Closing and Some More Store Information!
Hey all!
Josh here. It's been an incredible couple weeks seeing first impressions roll in about Grim Merchants (which is out now to backers AND on Itch+DriveThruRPG)! Seems like we did a good book-writin,' and that's all we could possibly hope for! Now, to business:
If you are keen on picking up a physical copy, the Mothership Month 2025 Pre-Order Store is currently open! You can pick up our standard edition zine, the UV-foil-cover deluxe edition, or print copies of Androids Unleashed!
However, we are starting to sweat a little on the logistics of international shipping (i.e. getting your books to TKG warehouses on time before the world burns down). To that end, to make sure we are able to hit all of our printing and shipping milestones, we will be having TKG close pre-orders for Grim Merchants items by end of day on April 15, 2026. This will allow us to definitively lock our order numbers for different regional warehouses and begin getting books printed locally by the end of April. Note that this does not mean the Pre-Order store is closing for anything else! It's just our stuff. Other creators may do similar, but it's up to us what day we close up.
This day will also be our soft cutoff for Deluxe tier backer credit submissions, so if you are a Deluxe tier backer, please fill out your survey this week! You'll still be credited in the book if you don't, but it'll just be by the name associated with your Backerkit account instead of your bespoke choice.
Apologies to anybody hoping for more time to pre-order, but with all of the delays that have already occurred, it's more important than ever that we stay on track with our physical fulfillment deadlines. Rest assured that physical copies of both Grim Merchants and Androids Unleashed will be available post-fulfillment on the TKG store (Deluxe is a bit of a question mark though). We appreciate your support and understanding, and we are excited to be able to move into the printing stage very soon!
Now, I just want to mention a couple topics in case anybody was curious:
Josh here. It's been an incredible couple weeks seeing first impressions roll in about Grim Merchants (which is out now to backers AND on Itch+DriveThruRPG)! Seems like we did a good book-writin,' and that's all we could possibly hope for! Now, to business:
If you are keen on picking up a physical copy, the Mothership Month 2025 Pre-Order Store is currently open! You can pick up our standard edition zine, the UV-foil-cover deluxe edition, or print copies of Androids Unleashed!
However, we are starting to sweat a little on the logistics of international shipping (i.e. getting your books to TKG warehouses on time before the world burns down). To that end, to make sure we are able to hit all of our printing and shipping milestones, we will be having TKG close pre-orders for Grim Merchants items by end of day on April 15, 2026. This will allow us to definitively lock our order numbers for different regional warehouses and begin getting books printed locally by the end of April. Note that this does not mean the Pre-Order store is closing for anything else! It's just our stuff. Other creators may do similar, but it's up to us what day we close up.
This day will also be our soft cutoff for Deluxe tier backer credit submissions, so if you are a Deluxe tier backer, please fill out your survey this week! You'll still be credited in the book if you don't, but it'll just be by the name associated with your Backerkit account instead of your bespoke choice.
Apologies to anybody hoping for more time to pre-order, but with all of the delays that have already occurred, it's more important than ever that we stay on track with our physical fulfillment deadlines. Rest assured that physical copies of both Grim Merchants and Androids Unleashed will be available post-fulfillment on the TKG store (Deluxe is a bit of a question mark though). We appreciate your support and understanding, and we are excited to be able to move into the printing stage very soon!
Now, I just want to mention a couple topics in case anybody was curious:
- Stickers and Patches. These aren't on the pre-order store! We considered offering 'em, but we did print runs of both in early January before realizing exactly how much numbers might vary with pre-orders. Since we weren't confident on the logistics of a second, much-smaller print run, we excluded them from the store out of an abundance of caution.
- Deluxe Backer Credits. We super appreciate anybody who picks up the Deluxe print on pre-order! However, this add-on is just the book, not a backer credit as offered during the campaign at the Deluxe tier. Just so it's clear!
- Upgrading Pledges. We had a $1 tier for specifically this purpose, and I know many folks may have backed at the Digital tier in hopes of upgrading post-campaign. I was not aware that this would not be possible with the current setup, however, so unfortunately it's a bit of a sticky situation. $1 Backers, I encourage you to snag a complimentary digital copy of Grim Merchants from the pinned update if you haven't already, as some amount of apology for the accidental deception. And for anybody who would still like to manually have their pledge upgraded, please reach out to me at [email protected] and we will see what we can do in conjunction with TKG and Backerkit.
Alright that's it! Remember: April 15, pre-orders close and we will be off to our printers! Talk again very soon!
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