Lycan: Solomon’s Odyssey Updates 10/19/22
Hello everyone!
I hope everyone is having a great week!
Let's get to the updates!
Chapter 2
I mentioned previously, that I am waiting on a few more responses in order to get the last pages needed to print, over to the letterer. I am now down to 3-5 responses needed before I can move forward. I've tried reaching out to them on both Kickstarter and through email, so hopefully I hear back soon. I don't want to move forward by guessing what name they want to appear in the book because these people paid money to have their names appear and they should have the ability to have it appear like they want, if I can help it.
Speaking of lettering, the editor has given me edits for the book! I agreed with all the edits and sent them over to the letterer. I haven't received them back yet, but I did have an epiphany. There are 3 main characters in the book...and I never actually introduced them. The entire team missed it! If you're wondering how that could happen, well, if you're only ever looking at a script, you constantly see the characters names. I venture to guess that is how we missed it. I sent a note over to the letterer so hopefully that'll get fixed before we send to print!
Speaking of printing, I got in touch with my contact at PrintNinja to talk about the quote that I had locked in. You have a certain amount of time in order to keep your quote so I wanted to make sure I could get it to them in time. I also had to update the figures with them to modify the quote because a number of things were dependent on the Kickstarter that didn't happen. I was not aware of this, but you need to order a minimum of 250 slipcases, and I only need 3 so at this time we won't be going that route. We also didn't hit the stretch goal for the foil lettering so I had that removed. I am sticking with 1000 books. 100 of each cover in the hard cover format (because I think they're pretty awesome), and then 300 of the ghoul cover, 200 for the bodies cover, and 200 for the blood moon cover. I'm anticipating it'll still cost somewhere between 5000-6000 to print them, but we'll see!
Chapter 3
We haven't started production yet, but I did reach out to the artist to see how he was doing and see if there was an update on when he might want to start. It's looking like everything is proceeding as expected and he will begin in January. This means that my timetable will probably hold true. We won't end up having a Kickstarter in 2023, because the book won't be finished. I don't want to do a Kickstarter if the book isn't finished (or nearly finished). If you aren't aware, the reason it won't be done in time is that the book is 50% longer than chapters 1 or 2. I'll probably end up doing a Kickstarter in March of 2024. I definitely don't want to do it late in 2024 because it's a major election year and that is a bad time to try to ask for funds.
Those are all the updates I have for you at this time! I hope everyone has a great week! Thanks for the support and your interest!
