[None] Kickstarter is Live!
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kickstarter.comPosted Mar 7, 2022, 5:12 PM UTC
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kickstarter.comAnd already fully funded!
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Already over 22k now!
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Backed. Started justifying to my wife why I needed the top tier and she just laughed and said she already knew I was going to do it and it was fine
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Are you me and my wife?
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There are no Stretch Goals listed at present because we have no idea how much interest there is in these books. We're not even sure if we will fund. But if we do get the funding we need for the project, then we'll start posting additional goals here.
Ha. Haha. Hahahahahahaha. Looks at 120k at time of my posting out of 10k goal.
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Really struggling with whether I want to back the highest tier for all of the leatherbound books. On the one hand, I know for sure that I'll never read them since I find the kindle so much more convenient. On the other hand... I really want them anyways.
Also it's interesting that Will doesn't own the rights to his audiobooks. Is this a typical thing due to going through some Amazon program, or did he cut some other kind of publishing deal?
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It's pretty typical for small indie authors to sell the rights to audible.
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I'm getting the top tier, but never plan on opening them. I read the audiobooks, but wanted the collectables. It's a pretty good dead when you consider Easton Press signed leather copies of books are about $135 per book, and here you get 3 for that price!
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Brandon Sanderson who? WILL WRIGHT ALL DAY!!!
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Will and Brandon's books will look nice next to each other on my shelf.
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Whoa hold on what is this madness? You can't just like two things.
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I was thinking the very same.
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I've never had (faux) leather books before. Can't wait to see how they feel.
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Kinda like leather ;)
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... but falser.
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Funding pretty fast. I thought I was like first one in there and it was at like 700$ lol. Was like "oh no" but turns out i was just REALLY on top of it.
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Damn, all these authors are going to bankrupt me. Totally worth it.
Edit: Cheaped out, no bankruptcy for me. Close though.
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TAKE MY MONEY
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The turnaround time is quick as well. June 2022, nice.
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Had to get the Rare Breed pledge those leather bounds are just to pretty to pass on
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Lowkey confirmed the next two books he's going to publish will be Cradle though
so the series should be complete in about a year
Here's hoping we get some sort of announcement for the next book soon, I think last year it came out in April.
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yesyesyesyesyesyes
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Any chance we could have them in omnibus format for the leatherbounds? I'd way prefer a set of 4 thicker leatherbounds than 12
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Can't wait to add the leather books to my bookshelf collection.
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We're not even sure if we will fund.
Umm, yeah, I don't think you ever had to worry about that. We're all way too addicted to Cradle for that to ever have been a real possibility <3.
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Already ordered my limited editions, and I’m glad the plan is to get them this year! 2022 is the year of Wight!
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Brandon who?
He only has 25 mill on his Kickstart, we got will past 70k last I looked!
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New to Will. So this series already has 10 books? Hence, after this kickstarter I'll need to hope that he also prints the rest of the books right?
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They're available as ebooks on Kindle, as audiobooks on Audible, or as print-on-demand paperbacks on Amazon.
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Yes, if you read the kickstarter they say if this one is successful they will continue with the rest.
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Also, when Will puts out a new book, he tends to give out the earlier books in the series for free (in ebook).
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Probably not going to happen for the paperbacks ;P
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As I was watching this, over the course of 3 minutes, it went from $28k, to $32,500.
Edit: I’m also noticing everyone wants the limited edition version. Like 99% of the people at buying that.
Edit 2: now at $38k, in the time it took me to pledge. Fastest I’ve personally ever watched something fund.
Edit 3: man, I sure hope there’s a lot of buffer built into those limited copies, so that it allows Will to use the extra cash to make a lot more paperbacks and get those into stores. Otherwise, this whole Kickstarter is going to be nothing but limited edition paperbacks. :P
I'm honestly not that surprised. Realistically, pretty much everyone looking at the kickstarter has already read all three books. If you are backing it, you presumably want collectibles, not "normal" paperbacks.
I mean, yeah, it probably makes total sense, I just hope Will factored that into his plans.
We absolutely did!
Great!
Because I think this is gonna go over the original expectations just a tiiiiiiiiiiiiiny bit. ;)
Usually when an author does a Limited Edition signed run of books they provide a number. I don't see one haha. They did put a cap of 2000 for the enchanted wood badges though.
Edit - limit of 2000 not 200
I must have missed the wooden badges somewhere, as I didn’t even see them listed in the pledges. Id have probably grabbed one of those too.
It was a $25 add-on.
It must have already sold out by the time I pledged. I was on the cusp of 200 backers by the time I clicked the link, so I was probably too slow.
I appreciate this comment. Would have missed the badge.
$190,005 pledged
1,900% funded
18 days to go
Yeah, it’s so nuts right now, I was having trouble getting the page to load.
Brandon Sanderson who?