The Veneziad - Special Edition Hardcover

$250k Stretch Goal Reached! (Belated)
almost 2 years ago – Tue, Jun 18, 2024 at 07:34:13 AM

Hi, everyone!

As Bryce mentioned over the weekend, we were poised to cross the $250k stretch goal, and by Monday morning, y'all helped us do that! Thank you! 

So, now that means that every backer will be getting a deluxe foil bookmark included with their pledge! We'll post a mockup of what that will look like in a future update, so stay tuned! In the meantime, here are a few examples of what those look like!

Next up...

At $350k we'll be able to get each copy of The Veneziad printed in full-color! For a glimpse of what that would look like, here's a colored version of the 2-page chapter header art by Francesca Baerald along with the initial sketch for comparison! Let's see how fast we can get there!

Very quick heads up about the $250k Stretch Goal!
almost 2 years ago – Sat, Jun 15, 2024 at 07:27:47 AM

Hey yall! Bryce here! Just a quick heads up that while we are very likely to crack the $250k Stretch Goal today or tomorrow, you will not see an announcement or Update about it until Monday at the earliest!

Wraithmarked is very strict about work life balance and making sure that our team's time off is their time off, so I'm the only one who works weekends and off-hours whenever we can help it (we are not perfect, as their are exceptions for our salaried people on rare occasions). Since I'm not lead on this project, I unfortunately don't have all the information I need to get you guys a proper announcement/Update!

BUT you can look forward to it this week, along with more information about the Stretch Goal! For the time being, an early THANK YOU and CONGRATULATIONS from all of us, and talk soon!

Cheers,

-Bryce O'Connor

$200k raised! Announcing a new Stretch Goal!
almost 2 years ago – Sat, Jun 08, 2024 at 10:53:35 AM

$200k! Holy HELL, people!

This is wild, and it's been SO much fun to watch the growth of this campaign! We're closing in on doubling our Day 1 final fund number, which is just so atypical it's amazing.

In the interest of keeping this upward momentum going, we've decided to added another Stretch Goal for you guys after the $250k goal, in case we manage to just keep going stratospheric!

If we smash through the included bookmarks and we can reach $350k USD in funding, the interior of The Veneziad will be printed in color! This means that our chapters headers will be done in full color, really making them pop off the page, and we're going to see about potential spots to add other splashes throughout the rest of the book!

This was kind of a pipe dream for us given our printer told us the cost of printing in full color might increase the price of each unit by as much as x5 (the joys of refusing to print outside the US or UK...), but now that we're looking at a significant print run of books, it might just be possible at a doable cost!

So... Onward to $350k! Let's see if we can do it!

Thank you everyone for your support, and we can't wait to see how this turns out in the end!

$150k Stretch Goal Crossed! More Sea Shanties incoming!
almost 2 years ago – Fri, Jun 07, 2024 at 06:40:07 AM

Hi Everyone!

Once again, we logged off for the day only to come back and find that y'all had helped us unlock another Stretch Goal overnight! Thank you!

As the title of this update mentions, crossing the $150k threshold means that the books will include at least 4 additional sea shanties written by G.B. Stewart!

Next up, if we get to $250k every backer will get a deluxe foil bookmark featuring the art from the book included with their pledge! For those of you wondering "What is a deluxe foil bookmark?" we'll show you! :)

One More Thing!

We have an updated sketch of the chapter header artwork by Francesca Baerald and it looks absolutely fantastic! We'll post more updates of this piece as we get them! 

🤦 Yes, the books are indeed signed. We're just dummies 🤣
almost 2 years ago – Thu, Jun 06, 2024 at 07:19:09 AM

Hey all! Bryce here with (for once) a purely "good news" apology.

It was only after a wonderful backer (thank you Christine) very politely asked if we could get THE VENEZIAD signed as a Stretch Goal for you guys that Wraithmarked realized nowhere in the campaign or video did we mention that YES, the books will 100% all be signed by G.B. Stewart! Not only that, but they'll be signed on one of our awesome custom full-color double-page spreads, some past samples of which you can see below!

That's totally on me, since at the end of the day it is my job to make final approval of the campaign. Hopefully this is a forgivable slipup given it's only good knews hahaha.

Still, my apologies, and I will try not to hide any more cool stuff from you guys moving forward!