Surveys are officially locked; I gave it an extra week because I was out of town and not near a computer. We still have some outstanding surveys, failed initial payments and failed payments for shipping and add-ons from the survey. Please fix your payments ASAP so I can get final counts!
If your payment isn't fixed by April 10th, you will forfeit your freebie items in your order. This isn't to be mean; I just really need my final counts and payments to be able to put everything into production and get the correct amounts to order, otherwise I am very out of pocket and my numbers aren't correct. If you do not have your payment fixed by April 10th, I cannot guarantee I will have the designs you want in stock as I have already ordered 90% of the pins off of the counts that I have.
Thank you again so much for your support and enjoy the rest of your weekend! Nikki
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Hello friends! Thank you all again so much for being so prompt with answering your surveys. We have about 90% survey completion which is pretty fantastic for over 300 backers. I've used those counts to start ordering the items; about 85% of the designs are already in production! I like to move fast and get items produced and in-hand to you quickly, so I hustled to get everything started.
If you haven't completed your survey or need to still update your credit card, please do so ASAP! I was going to lock surveys tomorrow, but I'm leaving for vacation on Monday next week and I'll be away from my computer, so I'll leave them open an extra week and lock them when I return home next weekend.
Unfortunately this campaign is shipping to only the US and Canada, so if you tried to fill out your survey and couldn't because you live outside of those areas, it wasn't working. I'm so sorry I can't ship to anywhere else at this moment! For some reason, even though I excluded all other countries besides the US and Canada in the campaign, there's a loophole on Backerkit where you can still pledge if you live elsewhere. If you are one of the backers who pledged outside of the US or Canada and have a friend or shipping service address I can send to instead, please let me know. Or else I can cancel and refund your order. Email me at [email protected]!
If you haven't ordered from Books & Banter yet, the pre-order store is open for just one more week! I'll close the pre-order store at the same time I lock surveys.
My next campaign is launching on March 29th! This campaign is a gothic, vampiric inspired pin campaign with coordinating colors and aesthetics. There will be gorgeous stained glass lanterns, swords, teacups, coffins, potions, roses... a little bit of everything to flesh out a campaign Dracula would yearn for. As always, there will also be lots of freebies: 🌹Free mini rose enamel pin for pre-launch followers ⚰️Free sticker for early backers 🪦Free sticker for returning backers 🫖Free 1.5" pin for cross-collab backers with our partner Space Witch
I think that covers it all for now! For more frequent updates, make sure to follow me on Instagram @sunsetroadco so I don't inundate you all here. Enjoy your weekend!
I just sent out the survey to everyone. Please fill it out as soon as you can so I can get my counts and start ordering all of the designs. If you still need to fix your credit card, please do that ASAP so I can get the survey sent out to you. If you don't fix your card or fill out your survey, you won't receive any of your pins or the slew of free rewards which is a bummer!
There is only one new additional design for a cutie book design. This is a limited edition pin and I'll only make as many that are ordered!
If you missed out on pledging during the campaign, the preorder store will be open for about 2 weeks. It will only be open a short time so I can make sure I get all the correct counts to order for the designs. Visit the preorder store here!
You'll also see a question in the survey about my next campaign that is launching on March 29th: A Gothic Revival. Please let me know what kinds of designs you'd like to see in this gothic, vampiric campaign. I've been designing up a storm for it and I'm thrilled with how it's coming together.
Thank you all so much again for your support on this campaign! I'm so excited to get all of these pins made.
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Hello my fellow literary lovers! Thank you all so much for making our first Pintopia campaign such a success. We raised over $15k to make this my most successful Backerkit campaign so far. ALL levels were unlocked, so you'll be able to have your pick of the litter in your survey.
I'm already about halfway through creating the survey, so you'll receive that in about a week or so. I give at least a week so credit card charges can all go through. Almost everyone has been charged already; if you have a failed payment, please make sure to update your credit card payment ASAP so I can get the survey to you and get these pins ordered! After the survey goes out in about a week, I'd love to close out the survey a week/10 days after that so I can order pins right as the factories open back up after the Lunar New Year.
Our next campaign is a continuation of our previous Victorian Villages campaign, but with smaller pins added as well! You'll be able to create a cozy autumn village or a haunted spooky village in this iteration. Along with the different buildings, we will also have accompanying accessory pins ranging from .75' to 1.25" so really flesh out your villages. We'll have potions, creatures, bookish items, Halloween and more!
We're partnering up with our friend Stina of Laserbrain with her campaign Space Witch. We'll both be offering a FREE full-size pin for those who successfully pledge to both of our campaigns. Follow her project here!
For this campaign I'll be offering: 👻Free pin for pre-launch followers 🍂Freebie for Early Backers 👻Freebie for Return Backers 🍂Free pin for Cross-Collab backers
If you're in the NYC area and attending Bookcon at the Javits Center, swing by booth #1327 to see me! I'll be vending and have some special limited edition pins, stickers, claw clips and more. Bookcon is April 18-19 and should be a really fun time. Please say hi if you're attending!
That's all for now. Be on the lookout for a survey for Books & Banter in about a week or so and please just fix any credit card errors this week so I can make sure you get your survey. Thank you all again for the continuous support!
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Hooray, there's just a day left of the campaign! Thank you again for all the support. I have decided to unlock the last stretch goal (because I want to make them) as long as the campaign stays above $15k pledged. So you'll be able to get the heart locket of your favorite hockey couple or the hot cocoa society teacup in the survey!
I've already starting proofing all of the pin artwork with my manufacturer so I can get things rolling. Here's some of the proofs and a fun 3D rendering for the heart locket!
I'm preparing the survey now so I can hopefully get that out to you all very quickly post-campaign conclusion as well. I'm moving fast because I'm just really thrilled to get these designs into your hands, so thank you for liking the art and being excited about the designs!
