Seamus Conneely
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Backed 5 projects in 💥 Zinetopia 2026
18 days ago
Project Update: The Presses Are Heating Up...
All ready-to-fulfill physical orders have been placed with the printer!
This was actually the case over the past weekend, and some of you got emails from DriveThruRPG/Lightning Source as a result, but today is when I pushed the final big button too: getting the print run for The Cog That Remains ordered as well! Double hurray!
So, I suspect over the next week or so the actual shipping of the books will be confirmed and I'll start moving orders to Fulfilled, providing tracking numbers (where I can - Royal Mail won't give me any, unfortunately). That will, gradually, bring this project to a close.
The only caveat is that there are five orders that are not ready-to-fulfill. Aside from the BackerKit notifications and updates like this one, I'll be reaching out to you five personal-like one more time to try to get those orders over the finish line. Hopefully it can be managed, and we can get to 100%!
I don't have any plans to do another crowdfunding project any time soon (this project saw to that by sniping The Cog The Remains), but while I was setting this one up I ran across a difference of opinion. Some creators who print the way I do leaned very heavily towards only asking for a lower amount per pledge while giving backers an at-cost print-on-demand coupon, letting them deal with printing/shipping costs directly, while others saw that as less convenient for the backers and did all the ordering themselves while factoring the print costs into their pledge levels and charging shipping once addresses are gathered.
I went with the latter for Tales but ended up splitting the difference on The Cog That Remains, and while 11 folks ordered the TCTR PDF+Physical add-on 19 people have used the PoD coupon option (so far). So, I've also got a poll attached to this update, purely based on curiosity, to see if the larger group has a preference.
Alright, that's it for now, I'm going to go stare at these 87 printing orders without blinking until they start changing from "Confirmed" to "Shipped"!
- Seamus
This was actually the case over the past weekend, and some of you got emails from DriveThruRPG/Lightning Source as a result, but today is when I pushed the final big button too: getting the print run for The Cog That Remains ordered as well! Double hurray!
So, I suspect over the next week or so the actual shipping of the books will be confirmed and I'll start moving orders to Fulfilled, providing tracking numbers (where I can - Royal Mail won't give me any, unfortunately). That will, gradually, bring this project to a close.
The only caveat is that there are five orders that are not ready-to-fulfill. Aside from the BackerKit notifications and updates like this one, I'll be reaching out to you five personal-like one more time to try to get those orders over the finish line. Hopefully it can be managed, and we can get to 100%!
I don't have any plans to do another crowdfunding project any time soon (this project saw to that by sniping The Cog The Remains), but while I was setting this one up I ran across a difference of opinion. Some creators who print the way I do leaned very heavily towards only asking for a lower amount per pledge while giving backers an at-cost print-on-demand coupon, letting them deal with printing/shipping costs directly, while others saw that as less convenient for the backers and did all the ordering themselves while factoring the print costs into their pledge levels and charging shipping once addresses are gathered.
I went with the latter for Tales but ended up splitting the difference on The Cog That Remains, and while 11 folks ordered the TCTR PDF+Physical add-on 19 people have used the PoD coupon option (so far). So, I've also got a poll attached to this update, purely based on curiosity, to see if the larger group has a preference.
Alright, that's it for now, I'm going to go stare at these 87 printing orders without blinking until they start changing from "Confirmed" to "Shipped"!
- Seamus
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