In Kickstarter news: about 89% of backers have completed the BackerKit pledge manager, hooray! The medals are on their way here from the factory and we’re working to finish up things like signing all the bookplates and assembling the Envelopes of Madness. We hope to begin shipping fairly quickly.


There are a few of our backers whose emails are, according to BackerKit, not working. We’ll be reaching out to them individually to try to get all the pledge manager links out. If you think you might be one of those folks, or if you know your email has changed since the campaign, please contact us with a new address and we’ll get that link right out to you!


I’m getting close to opening the BackerKit store to the public to give everybody one last shot at the rewards. Backers of the actual campaign still get their perks, though. Backers have a discount on additional campaign medals, patches and Envelopes of Madness. Also, this time, we’re really low on the hardcover edition, which came as a bit of a surprise. So, I’ve currently set up the BackerKit store so that only actual backers from the campaign can order extras. I may change that later if it looks like all the backers have had their chance, but until then, you all get first dibs. Don’t worry, I’ve saved a bunch to account for lost and damaged shipments as well.

In other news…


Phil has sold his novel The Night Sherriff to Prince of Cats publishing, we’re very excited about that. I’m not sure about the release date, though. Don't worry, when it's out we won't shut up about it.


Rain Games just released some of the music they’ve been tinkering with for the Girl Genius Adventures in Castle Heterodyne video game, and in my opinion, it’s spot on. It’s like the covers to the Girl Genius novels: they somehow read my mind and came up with exactly the kind of thing I want. I love it! You can hear it here on Rain Games' Twitter.


Steve Jackson Games tells us that they are getting close to launching their Kickstarter for Girl Genius GURPS, which is all done and ready to go and everything! I’ll post lots of links when I know more.


And that’s all the things I can think of to tell you about today!

--Kaja

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A warm welcome to our newest craft licensee: Myth and Stitch Embroidery! Yes, we do a lot of our own patches, but the ones you'll see from Myth and Stitch are different, and really lovely. You may even like them better than ours! They also have embroidery designs, which we think are pretty cool. Please check them out!

(A long time ago, we had a simple, limited license contract put together to allow small-run artists and crafters (like the kind you see at cons) to make Girl Genius fan merchandise. You can see a page of really neat listings here! I'll get Myth and Stitch on there soon.)