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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