Welcome, everybody, to this year's quest to get Leif & Thorn Volume 8 in print!
We're 33% funded in the first 8 hours. Awesome. (I was at the Day Job when the launch itself happened...let's just say I kept surreptitiously checking my phone throughout the afternoon.)
New things to know this year:
1) Printopia 2025 has free bonuses we can get with Engagement Points. Leif & Thorn is in Team Duskmelt, which has 10 total projects, so our first goal is "
10,000 Engagement Points this week."
Backers earn points by
doing everything in the Community tab. Leave a comment on this post, get 25 points. Like everyone else's comments, get 5 points each. You get the picture.
2) We're doing an extra Cross-Collab with another project. Check out
Guardian Angel Academy, a fantasy-romance novel saga about the one demon girl who got into angel school. It's a complete 4-book series, so now they're funding an extra-fancy omnibus.
If you back any of the physical-reward tiers, in both Leif & Thorn and Guardian Angel Academy, both of us will send you an extra mini-print with your book. Keep an eye out for the design reveals in a future post.
3) Still a few sketches left in the Early Bird Art Special. These are digital sketches of Leif & Thorn characters, drawn for the first 15 backers who pledge $50 or more...and last I checked, 5/15 were still up for grabs.
A couple more backers have joined since I started writing this post, so I better wrap it up quick, before my fun progress-bar graphic is hopelessly out-of-date.
Here's a comment prompt, to help spur those Engagement Points: What are everyone's favorite magical-girl series? (Creative interpretations of "magical girl" welcome!)
- Erin Ptah
