Tue Jul 3 '18 Announcement
over 6 years ago
– Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 10:14:47 PM
I dropped the ball on the updates. Sorry everyone. Regardless of anything going on I should have updated folks.
So from here out, I'm scheduling the updates for this project. After tonight's update I'll be updating with more info and art by August 10th 2018. I want to make sure everyone see's how close this is to done now.
Currently I'm wrapping up the comic section of the project and wanted to share some previews so everyone could read a portion. Censored for IndieGogo, final version will have no censoring. The final project will be made up of: Talents/Comic/Bonuses
The preview image for this update shows the first three pages of the comic section & how the Jam X Raspberry shenanigans happen to come about!
I'm looking at mid August as my target for having all the art wrapped up and ready to go.
Currently I'm finishing up the comic & then will be organizing everything into a download.
Here's how everything's going to roll out
1. An update reminding everyone to make sure their email is current so I can send people who backed the download their digital copies.
2. After I give everyone a chance to update their emails/contact info, I'll be sending out a download link to backers for the digital version.
3. The book will be sent off to press for physical copies. While I wait for the proofs to come back, I'll make another update to make sure that everyone's addresses are current so no books get mailed to the wrong place.
4. Once books arrive from the printer, will be packaging them all and sending them out to backers.
Thank you all for your immense patience on the project and I really hope you enjoy the preview of the comic! Looking forward to finishing this sucker up!
Tue Feb 6 '18 Announcement
almost 7 years ago
– Tue, Feb 06, 2018 at 08:41:36 PM
Hi everyone!
Miu here. First off, some major apologies for everything that's happened with the campaign. I know a lot of people have been wondering what's going on and we should have addressed this a lot more often. Honestly, it was really mostly my own anxiety over Talent Show that did most of this. Instead of dealing with things I kept worrying and that just sorta rolled over on itself and I shouldn't have let that happen. If it's one thing I've taken away from the experience it's 1. Don't offer something that's not finished. It's just too hard to make time to do everything in daily life AND a project on top of that 2. It's better to be upfront and try and communicate. I hope to be much better about this from here out as I've taken over the remainder of the campaign. The person that was running this before has had some massive life adjustments to deal with and hasn't been able to help out due to this.
Now, all that aside, I really appreciate everyone's immense patience and I hope you can see from the preview image that Talent Show is coming together nicely and is on track to finish soon!
I'll be attending Texas Furry Fiesta this weekend and then I'll be back on Talent Show as soon as I get home and get some sleep. I'm itching to finish I'm so close!
In the meantime I'll be offering more updates once I get home from con time so peeps can see progress as it comes together. I'm really happy with it as a project and I hope you'll all enjoy it once it hits your emails/mailboxes!
I'll try to answer any questions I can just be aware I will be at a convention this weekend, so I'll probably be a lot more active once I'm home!
Thanks again to all of you for your never ending patience with me and I hope to bring this thing to a finish and make something you all enjoy! Take care and hey, I hope to maybe see some of you at Texas Furry Fiesta! If you're there, please come by my table in the dealers den and say hello.
Now off I go, take care in all the cold weather and see you with more art very soon!
Miu/Mike
Fri Jun 2 '17 Announcement
over 7 years ago
– Fri, Jun 02, 2017 at 12:35:28 PM
Hello everyone out there in internet land!
Books are at the fulfillment center and ready to go. Since I have received too many redundant emails to sort, I have instead set up two surveys. Please fill out one if you have physical items left to receive (aside from Talent Show, which is still currently in progress).
1. If you need your address changed, or got your shipment but are missing an item that is not Jam’s Talent Show, please fill out this “Change Info” form:
http://bit.ly/2rtzgvf
2. If your address is still fine, please fill out this “Ready to Ship” form:
http://bit.ly/2rNRuug
Filling out the Ready to Ship form doesn’t do anything in particular but I’ll be able to ship orders to people who confirm their addresses are correct first.
I’ll start to ship out packages ASAP as responses come in, and will leave the forms open until at least June 10. On June 12, all remaining orders that have been previously finalized but have not answered either of the surveys linked above will start getting shipped out, so in particular, if you DO need your address changed, please fill out the Change Info form ASAP so I can work on getting those addresses updated.
Please make sure that your survey answers are correct and only submit ONE form ONE time. If you make this more difficult for me to track by submitting multiple replies or emails, it will take me longer to get everyone’s stuff in the mail. Also for those of you who are outside the US, please be aware that the shipment will be coming from “3Apples Media.” We cannot be responsible for Customs fees or missed pickups or whatever happens that may cause a package to get returned to us, and if they do get rejected/returned, you can request a Paypal invoice for shipping the package a second time. There is no remaining budget for shipping international packages twice.
Looking forward to getting all these books out to you folks ASAP!
Mon May 1 '17 Announcement
over 7 years ago
– Mon, May 01, 2017 at 03:21:02 PM
Versions
I forgot to mention earlier today, we're completely out of stock at Fulfillrite for the earlier edition of volume #2 but there are still copies of #1 (old version), which is why I hadn't been able to ship out 1+2 combo packages. Also unfortunately, our small-run printer has announced retirement and couldn't take on any more orders, so I had no way to restock until the Hong Kong shipment arrived.
I'd like to run a quick survey to see whether people need/prefer their two copies to match. If it's strongly YES, I'm going to have them ship the old versions back. It'll cost more money, but you folks have been great, so I'd like to do this for you if that's what you'd like. If matching volumes doesn't matter so much to you all, I can save some funds and leave the existing #1s there to be shipped out as soon as the new books arrive.
If you are slated to receive copies of both #1 and #2, please answer this one-question survey (open until Saturday May 6th):
https://goo.gl/forms/aslThRRe77pdDAV32
This is NOT the address correction form, please only answer this if your order is not yet shipped, and are getting both books.
Mon May 1 '17 Announcement
over 7 years ago
– Mon, May 01, 2017 at 07:21:20 AM
FINALLY
It feels like it’s taken forever to get to this point, but…they’re finally here. ❤️
So, this is what 2200 lbs of books looks like...a solid cube nearly as tall as I am. The delivery guy was a bit concerned about actually making it into the garage, because of the weight and the lip at the end of my driveway. But success!
Each ‘little’ box on here is 50 books…my arms are pretty tired after disassembling the pallet and pulling boxes of P&C1 and 2. Just had to crack them open ASAP to show you folks! (ASAP being relative, as I am only one person and apparently printing nicer quality books means also getting much heavier end products…whoof)
Twelve boxes of these will need to go to Fulfillrite from here for everyone’s orders, so I’ll be working on packing them back onto the pallet and getting UPS to pick them up. Not long now!
Spot gloss! The title banner is glossy and the rest of the cover is matte. Sweet effect in person. :)
At this time please do not send more address corrections. I will be opening a Google Doc for address/shipment corrections AFTER the books are sent to the warehouse, so I can focus on doing the last chunk of freight properly.
Thanks for all your patience and hoping to get the rest of this out to all of you soon. :) Miu has been sick recently so while the antibiotics have been slowing him down some, hopefully I'll be able to share more progress on Talent Show too! Keeping fingers crossed this spring/summer is the final stretch!
