Hi all,

Well, it's clear we had a couple setbacks from our previous timeline. Some illness hit the wrong person at the wrong time as we’ve been setting up the pledge manager to get backer surveys out to you.

That said, we’ve submitted our Pledge Manager setup for approval by BackerKit, and we have a content-complete PDF preview of the whole book ready to go! We are distributing it through BackerKit’s surveys, so once we’re given the green light, we’ll get started with the required “smoke test” of sending them out to a small percentage of you. If no problems arise, we’ll send the survey to everyone else a couple days later. Keep your eye out for the survey emails soon!

Once you receive and complete your survey and pay shipping fees and any outstanding charges, you’ll get a download link to the Devil’s Due Backer Preview PDF. (And if you ever lose it, you can redownload it by returning to your backer survey.) All that’s missing from this preview version are page number references, more extensive hyperlinking, and the additional digital assets we’ll include in the final release.

We’d also like to show you the design for our second patch above, unlocked via the $12,500 achievement: Into the Inky Void! The talented Kin over at Krakenhund Studios realized this design for us. Kin is the creator of Operation Golden Cut from last Mothership Month and a contributor to Flatline on the Blocks this time around. Every backer at the Corsair (Physical) and Pirate's Life for Me (Deluxe) levels will get one of these patches added to their rewards.

We’re super thankful for your patience as we’ve been realizing this project that you all graciously funded last year. While most of us on the team have at least some crowdfunding experience, producing such a large book in our free time, with just a motley crew who leapt into a Discord server one day, has definitely been a learning experience.

And it’s not over yet! Once the surveys are out and running smoothly and you’re all enjoying the preview PDF, we’ll work on manufacturing the two patch designs, the tattoos, and the stickers and preparing the book for print.