Hey, how was your Memorial Day?
I spent mine-horror!-without internet after my area was hit by tornadoes over the weekend.
Thankfully, that’s as bad as things got for us, so I’ll take it.
But, man, it felt very much like living in the “before times.”
How’d we ever do it?
*shudders*
Ninth Inning Stretch
Over at the DREAMQUEST 2 campaign, you have unlocked two stretch goals with 48 hours left on the clock:
5 digital bonus books
and 2 more story pages, making it a 50-page book
If we reach $12,500, you will unlock an additional 2 story pages, making DREAMQUEST 2 a 52-page book!
Is that a tall order?
I dunno. In the old days of Kickstarter, you could always count on a big final 48-hour bump. But it’s a brave new world out there.
But if we can do it, this will give Mick and Alex a little more room to breathe on the action-packed big climax, so if you know anyone who would enjoy DREAMQUEST, please send them our way!
I Was Told There Would be a Crossover Print
Okay. So, I'm live with DREAMQUEST.
Rob Multari just launched NIGHT WOLF, which has a story by yours truly.
And besides being the artist on DREAMQUEST, Mick Beyers is also running a campaign for the collected edition of his series, A QUEEN OF MARS.
Since we're all live with a project right now, the three of us are offering this awesome exclusive 5x7" print drawn by Mick and colored by Gab Contreras that Rob has dubbed BEAUTIES AND THE BEAST!
Everyone who backs the NIGHT WOLF, A QUEEN OF MARS and DREAMQUEST campaigns will get this awesome print for FREE!
Physical tier backers of all campaigns will get a physical copy of the print, and digital backers will receive a hi-res digital version.
Here’s the pitch on both books:
Born into the outcast breed of werewolves known as the Monoki, eighteen-year-old Rodney Marcelli is reluctantly pulled into an ancient war between good and evil, during a modern time where the line has blurred.
With the help of Snow Paw, the Pureblood Monoki, and the supernatural evil slayer, Night Hunter, Rod must learn to master his newly found lycanthropy and mysterious kinetic energy power that only he possesses. Rod must fight the Dark Covenant in order to avenge his friends and family, and to save the girl he loves from the master vampire, Lord Malice.
Rodney Marcelli is Night Wolf!
A Queen of Mars Vol 1 is a NSFW sword-and-planet adventure based on the public domain works of Edgar Rice Burroughs' world of Barsoom. As the life of Barsoomians are without natural limit, those that have not met their end by violence or misadventure are permitted 1000 years to live. At that time you are expected to make pilgrimage down the mysterious River Iss, to the Valley of Dor and the Martian after life. So has Kahr Kagut, a Jedwar of Thark made his way to heaven, where he hopes to die...
But Kahr Kagut is not alone! The Princess Phaidor, daughter of the late Matai Shang, Holy Hakkador of the Therns, and presumed dead herself has returned to land of her birth, not to die, but to conquer...As fate has brought them together, Phaidor recruits the Thark to her own goals, wresting control of her people, the Therns, from the False Hekkador Eretor Thraug. All before they rescue Isdar, Princess of the first born and a prisoner in the ancient and deadly city of Zalah.
CLICK HERE TO BACK A QUEEN OF MARS
And of course…
Parting Shots
If you recently joined us, ORDER UP is not all-promo-all-the-time. You just happened to catch us during a launch. (Sorry/Not sorry.)
I’m going to cool your inbox for a few weeks, but we’ll be back in late June with our regularly scheduled nonsense.
In the meantime, I’m curious, as we head into what used to be peak movie-season…
Do you still go to the movies? If so, what are you looking forward to seeing this summer?
That’s all for now. See you when I’ve recovered from this Kickstarter…
- Clay