March 2024 Girl Genius Exorcism Engines Update
6 months ago
– Sun, Mar 31, 2024 at 10:43:10 PM
Hello again! With very little time left in the month of March, here’s the March update! I’m mostly recovered from my surgery, but it’s been slow going. I’ve been working hard, and will be launching the new Kickstarter this week for Girl Genius Volume 21: An Entertainment in Londinium. You can sign up to be notified or just wait and I’ll link the campaign here when it goes live.
All of our USA and most of our International shipments have shipped, but there are still a few Internationals that I’m shipping as money comes in. I am so very sorry about that delay. If and when Entertainment in Londinium funds, the rest of those Internationals will go our asap. I will of course keep you informed here, and I’m sorry for the wait. I very much appreciate your understanding. This has been a very difficult time, but I am committed to getting everyone their books.
Thank you everyone!
—Kaja
February 2024 Girl Genius Update
7 months ago
– Wed, Feb 28, 2024 at 04:51:35 PM
Well, I’ve spent most of this month having surprise surgery and then recovering. I’m still trying to work hard to get our financial situation more stable. I made it to MagicCon, the Magic the Gathering convention in Chicago that happened last weekend, and this coming weekend, we have the Emerald City Comic Con in Seattle. Before I went to the emergency room, I had been working on the next Kickstarter, and so we’ve made it far enough that we now have this page set up where you can sign up to be notified when it goes live. The actual campaign should go live soon; I have a little more setup to take care of, and then we’re off.
As I said last month (see last month’s update for the whole thing), I have some International packages that I'm still shipping, and as I bring in money, I'm shipping what I can. For our next campaign, I’m talking to a couple of International shipping companies for the next campaign, Spiral Galaxy for the UK and Aetherworks for Australia and NZ—they provide services where I would send a big shipment to them, and they would send out the individual shipments to backers in those areas. I’m still working out the costs for that, but I think it’s a very good idea. I’m very sorry for the delay, we’ve had a lot of setbacks this year, but we persist, and I am committed to getting everyone their rewards.
Ok, I’ll be posting another update soon when I have more to tell. For now, thank you all for reading Girl Genius, and for your patience with me. I’m feeling a lot better, and I’m back to work!
—Kaja
January 2024 Girl Genius update
8 months ago
– Wed, Jan 31, 2024 at 05:13:58 PM
It's the end of January, and most of our rewards have been shipped out. I have some International packages that I'm still shipping, and I'm very sorry for the delay. As I announced in an earlier update, we had a bad cash flow problem this year and we are barely keeping the lights on here at the Studio. So I'm finding ways to bring in money, and as I get it, I'm shipping what I can. Phil and I will be doing several conventions in the upcoming months, trying to get our finances stable.
I'm also working on the next Kickstarter: Girl Genius book 21 An Entertainment in Londinium. I hope to soon have a prelaunch page set up that will allow people to sign up to be notified when it goes live. If that campaign is successful, we will be able to send everything that we haven't already shipped. (If it isn't, we'll continue to ship as we can, but I'm sure it will be successful.) I hate to launch a new campaign while I still have outstanding shipments, but it looks like it might be the only way to move forward. I've delayed the next campaign for too long while I tried to get the money to get everything shipped, and that's caused a lot more problems.
I hope you'll all bear with me a little longer. I am as always committed to getting the rewards out to you all. Thank you, and Happy New Year!
--Kaja
Late December 2023 Girl Genius update!
9 months ago
– Tue, Dec 26, 2023 at 07:50:36 PM
Hello again everyone! It's near the end of the year, and we've been doing all of our usual family holiday celebrations. Now things should start to calm down and I'm back to work.
Nothing much has changed since my last update but I wanted to check in so you all know I'm still here and still working! I also want to bring you all the latest wallpaper download that I made for you and for our Patreon subscribers. Happy New Year!
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End November 2023 Girl Genius Update
10 months ago
– Thu, Nov 30, 2023 at 10:14:35 PM
As of Mid-October, all shipments for the USA have gone out. We’ve sent out most of our International shipments as well, but there are still a couple hundred packages left to ship, and I have to beg for your patience with those. I will get them sent, and I am very sorry for all the trouble, but it’s going to take me a little more time to get the money together for all the postage. I was really hoping I could get everything shipped this month but then this new problem came up.
I try very hard to keep the shipping low, but International shipping is ridiculously expensive, and so once again we undercharged for this campaign. Plus the post office has once again raised the rates. Combine that with some unexpected cash flow and medical problems we had this year, the result is that I don’t have the money to ship anything else right now. I know I can get the rest shipped, but it’s going to take a little time to get the money. I feel terrible about this, and I will keep posting updates here to let you know how things are going.
I might have to do the next Kickstarter campaign soon just to keep our insurance and employees paid. If I do that before the last of the packages ship, I will figure out some perk for those of you who are still waiting for your books. I’ll also figure out a way to combine shipping to any of you who may still want to back for Volume 21 although I don’t blame you if you don’t want to.
The good news is that I have confidence in our work and a lot of ideas to improve our cash flow in the future so I hope I can do a better job from here on out. Please remember that we have always got our rewards shipped, even when it takes a long time. I’ll do my best for you!
OTHER NEWS:
I’ve set up girlgeniusart.com to sell all the original art that we’ve been letting pile up for the last 15 years or so, and that’s also where I’m putting together a mailing list for a Studio Foglio newsletter if you’d like to sign up for it. I’m not sure when the first installment of that will go out, but I hope soon. I’ve also been streaming on Twitch (I'm ProfessoressaFoglio) to help promote the new Girl Genius Adventures in Castle Heterodyne game, it’s been a lot of fun.
Ok, that’s everything for now, and I’m sorry it’s not better news. I’ll still be packing and shipping the last International packages as money comes in, so watch your email inbox for tracking number messages. And I’ll be working hard to get the rest of this project taken care of. Thank you all so much for your support, I’m sorry I’m not better at this.
All my best—
—Kaja
