IN SHORT
• DELAY: The date for shipping out orders was "Some time in August" and now has become "Some time in November". More info below in "In Detail".
• NESS PINS - You can ...
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Oliver
about 2 months ago
REVEAL: Rainbow Metal Battle-Axe Pins!
We very much appreciate those who took a chance on our rainbow metal battle-axe pin when all we had to show was this mock-up image:
Now the manufacturer has just completed our...
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Oliver
2 months ago
REVEAL: Hardcover Endsheet Design
Those of you getting issues #3&4 in hardcover will see the marvelous upgrade that is our new, original endsheet design!
If you're seeing this update but haven't backed us, don...
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Oliver
3 months ago
Progress Report, and Our First Ever Book!
Hey everybody!
IN SHORT
• Production of issues #3 and #4 is thundering along nicely. So far there have been no big delays, and we will keep you appraised of the situation if th...
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Oliver
4 months ago
NESS Flash Fiction Submissions Open
Remember how there's a flash fiction sticker for all backers?
We're having open submissions for that story!
Details can be found here: https://newedgeswordandsorcery.com/submi...
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Oliver
5 months ago
198% Funded!! (What Comes Next?)
IN SHORT
• WE FUNDED! THANK YOU SO MUCH!
• We hit every single goal we set, then an extra artist pay raise we added at the last minute. Wow!
• Right now backers are being charg...
Obviously we here at New Edge Sword & Sorcery have made it clear we'd like to see a larger, wider variety of peoples and cultures represented more frequently in both stories and those who are telling them...
...but what would YOU like to see?
I, Oliver, would - beyond the inclusivity aspect - love to see more...
Draping S&S like a cloak over another genre. Robert E. Howard himself did this all the time. The God in the Bowl is an S&S locked room mystery. Beyond the Black River is an S&S frontier western tale. You get the idea…
To be clear, this is not blending genres, putting cowboys in with barbarians etc. This is using some or all of the format of another genre to tell an S&S tale, in an S&S setting, with S&S characters.
Non-monarchial secondary worlds or kingdoms. We can do anything in a secondary world, it doesn’t always have to be kings and queens.
Sword & Planet. I love this niche within a niche and fancy seeing more of it, perhaps in a New Edge vein!
It looks like we'll be shipping out issues to backers around the same time as we did last year, in November.
We'd worked hard to get ahead on production this time around so we could ship much earlier, however this ended up being undone by basically two things:
Oliver's puppy had to have unexpected major surgery, the recovery from which was incredibly draining on his entire household in terms of time & energy. Truly, Oliver did not understand the meaning of the word "exhausted" until this nine week period came about.|
Thankfully it's all over now, and Polly the puppy is fully recovered.
In short, the various mundane delays caused by none of our staff doing this for a living added up.
It's always tempting to create timelines on the basis that Nothing Will Go Wrong, and you better believe we've learned our lesson on that!
We're still glad we worked hard to get ahead, though, since that is why we're able to ship about the same time as last year, rather than much, much later.
We can report that our progress bars are a nice, hearty wall of green at this point. Just a few contracts to sign and we're done. We've also ordered our first set of proofs from the printer, and are optimistic we can get them the final print files in time to make the revised "Some time in November" timeline.
Thank you all for your patience. When the advance copies are in we'll share some spoiler-free pics, and when the print run is on the boat heading over from Hong Kong, we'll share its progress in a series of posts on our social media accounts.
WEE PIN UPDATE As head of NESS, our editor & publisher was able to get his hands on a few of the new pins, leading to some new photos that show off how varied they are, and a fun unboxing video you can watch here: https://youtu.be/FaguuxYC7Sc?si=pfN_fYj9PYBPgKvW
If you'd like to add one to your pledge, you can pre-order the pins here, then we'll see that and ad it to your pledge so as to save on shipping. Done that way it's only about one extra dollar shipping in total.
Now, here's a fun preview graphic made by the designer, Babe & Oak:
This toss surface pattern utilizes a mix of visual motifs that we felt evoked Sword & Sorcery while riffing on our battle-axe logo in a recognizable way.
You'll notice certain motifs in the design are white and others are red. This is because red & white are the two main design colors for issue three: This means that in the endsheet design for issue four, those motifs will be yellow & purple because....
You get the idea! In future issues we'll keep tweaking the colors slightly to match the cover designs in just the same way, making every issue's endsheet design unique.
