Friends. Readers. Fellow nerds with impeccable taste.

We are officially in the home stretch. The final 24 hours. The last lap. The dramatic climax of the movie where everything explodes in slow motion and the music swells and someone says something heroic right before punching a fascist in the face.

(Okay, that last bit’s just wishful thinking, but after the week we’ve all had, I think we deserve it as a treat.)

My point is: we’re down to the last days to pledge for FULL NEGATIVE, my big, bonkers scifi space opera that asks the question: what are you willing to give up for freedom? And also, what happens when the trolley problem is measured on a macro sale.

(Spoiler: it gets messy.)

Why does it matter?

Because, for me right now, and hopefully for you, later, this isn’t about publishing a book. It’s about launching a world—telepaths, shapeshifters, space empires, doomed romance, glorious betrayals—and all the weird, wild joy that comes with that. It’s also about proving that stories like this—genre-rich, character-driven, unapologetically extra—have a place in the world. And yes, okay, also on your shelves. Possibly in multiple formats. With cool merch.

On that note, I want to send a massive, cosmic-level thanks to Eagle Eye Books, Inkstone Books, Mysterious Galaxy, and Read It Again Books for being so incredibly supportive. You absolutely did not have to, and I’m incredibly grateful that you did, anyway.

What I’ve learned

There have been hard, valuable lessons. Ones which, should I do this again, I’ll keep in mind for the future.

• Organizing the crowdfunding campaign was almost as much work as writing the dang novel. (I’m joking. Kind of.)
• I needed to start much earlier (I knew that going in, but I forgot where I left my time machine, so here we are.)
• What you think people will be interested in may not, in fact, be what people are interested in. (Our Seris tier is our bestselling tier by far, which I did not predict.)
• I’ve received a LOT more support from Indie booksellers than I ever would have expected.
• Tariffs SUCK.

On that note, we’ll be talking about that more in the future but we’re hoping that the tariffs will only minimally impact us, but there can be no doubt that they will impact us. (They’ll impact everyone.) At least some of things we are offering, like the ebook, audiobook, and settings guide, aren’t things that can be subject to tariffs, and others (back catalog books, for example) are already in my garage.

I think it’s also worth emphasizing that pledging for this isn’t money going to a giant corporation. You’re helping ME get through what is promising to be a spectacularly ugly year, and I am extremely grateful for that.

Stay sane out there and never take the door they give you.

—Jenn

The link to our backerkit page is here.