The Final Day

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Hey ponies! Just providing a quick, final update to the Indiegogo campaign. Today is the final full day that the campaign will be running (although I think indiegogo itself has a weird cutoff that may cross into tomorrow in some time zones).

For those who missed my shouting to the wind over the last month, I’ve been running a hardcover print campaign for Message in a Bottle. You can check it out on Indiegogo here if you missed it: https://igg.me/at/starscribe/x/20354232

The campaign has blown past all of its goals, and is closing in on 100 books sold as we near the end of the campaign. (95 at the time of this writing). Production has started moving ahead already, and it’s likely I’ll be able to deliver some time ahead of schedule given how soon into things I knew it was going to succeed, though of course the printer has the final say.

As part of the incentive for this book, I’m in the process of writing a unique Epilogue section that will take place between Part 1 and Part 2, never to be published outside of the physical books. This section is roughly 20,000 words in length as of this stage in outlining (about 10,000 words are written so far), with about 66 pages of space for me to work with in the book.

The Epilogue will aim to tie off some of the characters left dangling in act 1 (Lightning Dust, anyone?). The story itself takes place about a month after the end of Part 1, focusing on an imminent visit by Princess Luna and the various ways our characters are recovering from their ordeal in Part 1. It may get a little longer, depending on those sections requested by individuals who ordered additional chapters (which you can do too, BTW!).

Anyway, thanks for indulging me one last time. I’ll probably shut up about these books now, at least until I get the proof in my hand and have a sexy hardcover to show off. Later!