KickStarter Launch Info + Bookplate Artwork (Patreon)

Hey everyone! It’s finally time to talk about the upcoming KickStarter!

First off, I aim to launch it next Thursday evening at 5PM MST, May 30th*.
(That’ll be midnight on May 31st in the UK/1AM in Germany.)
*This is subject to KickStarter’s review process—I’m not anticipating any issues, but you never know.

It will be very straight forward, along the same lines as the 2021 KickStarter for Volume One. The goal is to get a high-quality hard-cover edition of Volume Two to match the first (~7.5x11.25 inches, full color, 128 pages in total).

I’m using the same printer, planning on a hard cover edition the same size/paper as the first volume. (If you haven’t seen it, it came out pretty great!)

REWARD TIER BREAKDOWN:

#1 - Digital Only - $15 

A (.pdf) download of Volume Two for folks who just want to support the project.

#2 - Early Bird + Digital Download (Limited to 150) - $25 + shipping

One physical copy of Oren’s Forge, Volume Two: Incursion at a discount, plus a digital download/PDF.

#3 - Book - $30 + shipping

One physical copy of Oren’s Forge, Volume Two: Incursion, plus a digital download/PDF.

#4 - Signed/Numbered Bookplate Edition (Limited to 225) - $50 + shipping

A physical copy of Oren’s Forge, Volume Two: Incursion, featuring a signed and numbered bookplate, plus a digital download/PDF.

#5 - Original Artwork, Signed/Numbered Bookplate Edition (Limited to 10) - $200 + shipping

A digital download/PDF copy, plus a physical copy of Oren’s Forge, Volume Two: Incursion, featuring a signed and low-numbered (randomly chosen between #6-#15) bookplate, plus a 5x7 inked original artwork of a character from the comic, your choice!

(Here’s a link to the examples from the previous KickStarter if you missed it!)

#6 - Vol One + Vol Two Book Bundle (Limited to 50, US Only*) - $65 + shipping

A physical copy of Volume One, plus a copy of Volume Two!

(Digital downloads/PDFs of both, too.)

*The combined weight of both books plus shipping materials exceeds the 4lbs limit for international simple export shipping, unfortunately.

US + INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING INFO!

Shipping within the US for a single book will be $10 for USPS Priority.

For International Shipping, I’m going to be using PirateShip’s simple export rate (ultimately through Asendia) which allows for a flat rate. It offers tracking for 55 countries which is great. Downside is it takes a little longer (things get grouped onto a pallet and ship overseas together, then distributed by your country’s local post to your door.)

For Canada, the shipping rate is $21 and $28 for everywhere else.

PRODUCTION TIME LINE:

Since the comic is finished, I can get moving on the printing process fairly quickly. Once funded, I’ll need a couple weeks (no more than four) to get the book’s layout ready for proofs from the printer and finish some small touches (such as title page artwork). From there, it's a few weeks to receive/approve a proof from the printer, then roughly a month of production and 6-8 weeks for the books to ship to me before I can start sending them out.

I am aiming to have the books in to the printer around the end of July and hope to have the books in hand sometime in November. (While I’d love to get them out to folks before the holiday season, don’t bet on it. It might be tight.)

If we’ve learned anything over the last few years in the global marketplace, it’s always to expect the unexpected. I’ll keep backers appraised of each step in the process!

STRETCH GOAL!

The first Stretch Goal will be to print Oren and the One-Eyed Wolf as a separate 16-page comic (including the 13-page comic, a brand new cover, and a few pages of WIPs/misc art.) Those will be soft cover/saddle-stitched on a sturdy paper, same size as Vol One/Vol Two, and the batch will be sequentially numbered. If we hit the stretch goal, I’ll include a copy in all physical book purchases!

Beyond that, I have a few ideas for further stretch goals, but we’ll cross that bridge if we get to it!

BOOKPLATE ARTWORK:

Here’s the artwork for the bookplate! These will be hand numbered and signed, fixed to the front inside cover (I’ll also be signing the title page of the book.)

I'll definitely make a post about it here on Patreon when it officially launches, but I'll also post about it on Twitter (@teagangavet) and BlueSky (@teagan).

Coming up, first epilogue page will be on Monday the 27th and I'll sneak in the answers for the Q/A and some last WIPs early next week, too.

Thanks guys! I hope you have a good one!