Well, dear friends, we are now officially launched and funded. It’s just a matter of how high we’ll go. Hopefully high enough to unlock all of the setting guide, but for now, I’ll happily deal with what we have, namely Part I: The Past.

For anyone who’s curious as to why I spread out the setting guide over multiple update goals, I can explain it pretty easily:

Because I’m doing all the art.

Time spent doing the art is not time spent writing or being paid for that, so…if I let it be tied to a single stretch goal, then I might easily find myself committing to months of work for far less than a livable wage when all was said and done. So much as I want to do the whole thing, prudence prevailed.

Basically: tell your friends so they can pledge, too, and we can afford to create the whole guide. (We get the whole thing funded and I might start looking at making physical print copies available, too, and not to just pdfs.)

In other related news, I finally figured out how to share a playlist from Amazon music, so here’s the (entirely unofficial and unendorsed) playlist I used while writing FULL NEGATIVE. It has a fair bit of foul language in it, but then again, so does the book. (Malory cusses like a sailor.) Again, none of this music is licensed in association with FULL NEGATIVE. It’s good, though, so if you find something you like, please support the artist.

Hang in there.

(As always, the link to the Backerkit for FULL NEGATIVE can be found here.)