NEW KICKSTARTER UPGRADE REWARDS: "Behind-the-scenes commentary pack."
Our most popular Kickstarter rewards are $25 (all three ebooks) and $50 (all three physical books). A couple of backers asked if we could provide upgrades for the popular ebook reward levels, to include something tangible like postcards. Sadly, this wouldn’t be practical because it would involve our authors writing 300+ extra sets of postcards, plus mailing costs. However! We really wanted to add a bonus reward to celebrate hitting 75% of our funding goal, so here’s our new behind-the-scenes bonus commentary reward!
This digital pack will include:
- “DVD commentary”-style notes from each of the three authors, giving extra background information on their novels, the writing process, and their experiences when going through the editing/publishing process for the first time.
- early test sketches from the artists.
- character sheets with extra detail and backstory info that didn’t make it into the books.
- fandom meta-style letters or essays from the authors.
- terrible selfies of everyone slaving over their manuscripts while lurking in an un-heated garret, as is traditional for all first-time authors.
- behind-the-scenes diaries or messages from some of the editors/publishers at BBP.
This is all exclusive content that will only ever be available in the behind-the-scenes commentary pack. We thought something like this would be cool not just for backers in general (because you guys are special and are helping to launch the books into the wide wide world), but specifically to a fandom audience.
As fans, we often wish we could learn more about our favourite characters and stories, and this way the BBP authors can help with that. It’s already been really interesting to see the questions our authors have received during their Q&As on Tumblr. Nat hasn’t done a Q&A yet, but Erin’s questions so far have seemed more fannish (“What do you think the main fandom ships will be?”) while Kady’s were to do with the writing process (“How do you navigate writing strong/weak female characters?”). Each of the three authors will have different ideas on what they should include in their behind-the-scenes letters and essays, but it will all definitely be interesting to people who enjoyed the books. :)
The behind-the-scenes commentary pack will be available at $35 or $60+, as upgrades from the $25/$50 all-three-ebooks/physical books reward levels. Here’s what you get in the new upgrades:
- $35: All three ebooks, plus exclusive backer updates, plus the behind-the-scenes commentary pack.
- $60: All three physical books, plus exclusive backer updates, personalised postcard updates from the authors, and the behind-the-scenes commentary pack.
Every pledge above $60 will automatically include the new digital pack. Anyone with a lower pledge level can just add another $10 (or whatever) onto their original pledge, and select this upgrade. And if there’s something you’d really like to see included that we haven’t mentioned here already, we’re open to suggestions! :)