New things we're trying in the new campaign
8 months ago
– Tue, Sep 09, 2025 at 10:31:55 PM
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since I started writing this post, so I better wrap it up quick, before my fun progress-bar graphic is hopelessly out-of-date.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