Shock, Speed, Red Sky (Patreon)

Dear heroes,

Last week was a thrill. First of all, a great thank you to everyone who decided to pre-order Witchburner. Second, what in blazes happened?

By Friday I was utterly astounded.

So, context. With Exalted Funeral we decided to ... ahem ... test-run our partnership and our printer with a small, limited print run of 250 copies of Witchburner. I drew about twenty more pictures, to flesh it out a bit more, and added a couple of worksheets to it. The idea was, "let's entice folks to go for it!" I was a little nervous about 250 copies, I just imagined the poor things, neatly packed in boxes, slowly drying out in a garage as they waited for someone to buy them.

Seriously, I thought to myself, "this'll sell in four months if things go well."

The first print run of any book of mine I ever published ended up selling completely in 3.5 days during preorders without any marketing spend.

That is ridiculous. That's the kind of thing that I only dreamt of in my former work as a marketer and advertiser. I mean, that looks ridiculously good on a blurb or a bio.

So, yeah, wow. Thanks everyone!

The books should start shipping soon, and as soon as they do, I'll also release the extended .pdf to all metaheroes.

Couple questions came up a lot.

1. Will There Be European Distribution in Future?

Yes. There will. Agreement isn't 100% solid yet, but it'll be signed soon.

2. Will There Be A Reprint?

Ye-es. But not just yet. Remember, this was a test-run for partnership and printer? Well, let's give it a few more days, but if all the stars align I'm going to announce another book first. One a lot of you have been waiting on much longer.

Just ... hang in there a bit longer.

Red Sky Chapter 3 Inbound

Finally, regularly scheduled news outside of books, partnerships, dramas, and social media!

Red Sky Dead City Chapter 3 is incoming fast. Most of the art is done, and a fair chunk of the writing. If all goes well it should be complete in a couple of days. This chapter has:

• 2 more neighborhoods: Guild Tombs and Orchid Barracks
• Taking the equipment table up to 100 (finally!)
• Adding a bunch of background events to simulate the aftermath of the conquest
• Adding river encounters for coming to-and-from the Dead City across the River of Life
• And, as classic, growing the glossaries of spells and such. Oh, also adjusting the spells a bit to play more nicely with Skeleton.

I'll also do a vote for the next few neighborhoods soon.

Thinking Further Ahead: Longwinter

But, thinking ahead - I want to complete Longwinter before winter ends. So after Chapter 3 of Red Sky, I'd like to push forward to complete Longwinter in one or two updates.

That being so, I've been thinking of making a more google-able name for Longwinter. Something that sticks in the memory and the search bar better. Does anyone have a good suggestion? If someone comes up with a name that wins consensus (I'll do a poll for the best names based on hearts and suggestions in a later post for patrons), I'll do a special character or place just for them to inhabit Longwinter.

Thank you again, and salutations everyone!

-Luka