Updates

The update is: orders have not shipped yet because I am still waiting for 7 backers to fill in their surveys. If you are one of them and you're running into an issue, please don't hesitate to let me know and we'll figure it out.

Based on this delay I am setting a new, conservative shipping date of the 31st of October with hopes of earlier if at all possible.

Let me know what your plans for Halloween are in the comments. I plan to watch a selection of the worst horror movies I can find and drink my own body weight in tea.

Hello fascinating and pleasant-smelling backers,

Surveys for those who opted for a physical edition have been sent—check your spam folders if you haven't got them and let me know if you're missing a survey you ought to have and I'll sort you out.

Would you like to see what you're getting? Of course you would.

Look at her. She's beautiful. I can confirm that holding this in your hand is a wonderful experience and I can't wait for you all to have it, so please fill in your surveys for me!

Here's a bonus shot of my production assistant helping with the shoot.

Thank you once again for coming along on this ride and I can't WAIT for you to hold the results in your hands!

SHOUTING because we DID IT!! 

We:

A round of applause for everyone who submitted, shared, backed, hyped and otherwise got involved. This would have been both impossible and pointless without you.

Those of you who backed for a digital edition: thank you, and you should have it! If you have any issues with accessing or using your digital files, don't hesitate to get in touch.

Those of you who backed for a physical edition: thank you, and look out for a BackerKit survey (these are the magic words for benevolent BackerKit overlords review, apparently) as soon as they let me send one to confirm mailing addresses etc.

The next anthology theme as voted for by backers + tumblr followers will be The Deep. Submissions will open in November so a) get your thinking snorkels on and b) follow the press blog for updates.

Okay love you bye,
Cecil

HECK YEAH we have now tripled author payments! I could not be more thrilled, look at us go!! In a world where queer adult fiction is increasingly coming under attack, this is an incredible achievement and a reminder that we're not going anywhere.

As promised, backers will find their bonus flashfic linked below.

From the bottom of my heart, thank you for believing in this. I've set up a further achievement which would guarantee that I can produce two further anthologies. I'll be announcing which theme won the combined polls here and on Tumblr in the next update, so look out for it if you want to start planning a submission early!

Okay love you byeeeeee 💖✨

FRIENDS. We did it, we're doubling our contributing author payments!! The most important thing to me with this anthology was being able to pay fair compensation for excellent fiction and I'm so thrilled to be able to offer a fairer rate—we haven't gone pro yet, but a strange little editor-shaped creature can dream 🤩

Now for the real challenge: can we triple the original payment? Reaching $450AUD will allow me to put an additional $40AUD in the hands of our beloved authors. This is especially important to Lauren E. Mitchell who tells me they have Halloween shopping to do.

The Deep is currently winning the vote in the next anthology theme poll here on Backerkit (backers: Vote! Make your voice heard! Manifest the stories you want to see in the world!) and it just so happens I have a little something tucked aside that fits that theme, so: if we make our second achievement, I will also release a sea creature flash fic exclusively for backers. 

If you haven't backed, there's your added incentive to get on that. If you have, tell a friend/loved one/total stranger who looks cool!