Girl Genius: the Exorcism Engines January 2023 update
almost 2 years ago
– Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 06:45:18 PM
Well. Despite my earlier optimism, I am now officially behind. I am so sorry about this, I hope you’ll all forgive me for the delay. I thought I had everything for the Envelopes of Madness and it turned out I had made a mistake and didn’t have it all, and then some things happened, and I’m only now starting to get things out the door. I kept putting off the January update hoping that at any minute I’d have more to say, but today’s the last day of the month and I don’t have much to add to that, so I’m just posting to let you know I’m still alive and working on shipping. I’ll make sure to post again with a better update early in February to let you know how things are going at that point. Happy Year of the Rabbit everyone, I hope it’ll be a great one for everybody!
Thank you all for your patience and support!
—Kaja
December Girl Genius Update! Happy New Year!
about 2 years ago
– Sat, Dec 24, 2022 at 11:11:00 PM
Hello everyone! I'm sorry this update is later than usual, it's been a busy month and the time slipped away. It's Christmas eve here and I've got a lot going on, but right now I'm taking the chance to sit down for a minute.
Packing is going slowly at the moment but will really kick into gear in January, so we're still on our stated schedule, even though I would have liked to have shipped sooner. When the currently running story of the dragon Franz and his adventurer friends is finished, I'll add a PDF of that to your PDF pile as thanks for your patience. (And now I'd better make a note of that so I don't forget.) It turns out it's going to be its own book, so that's a fun surprise, even to us.
The USPS has raised the domestic rates significantly over the winter holiday season, so I'm getting the thousands of packages that need to go out prepped to ship right after the rates are lowered to a mere expensive rather than horrific. To our Canadian and overseas backers, those rates don't affect your packages, the rates for those are ridiculous all year round. We're constantly having to tell people "Yes, they really do charge us that much and often more. No, we are not making money on shipping charges." We understand that the shipping charges are awful. We do appreciate so much the people who want to support us, we love you for it, but all the support doesn't have to be from crowdfunding and we understand if people don't want that level of expense! Just reading our work and telling your friends about it is a kind of support we love, it really helps us out so much. Spreading the word that we even exist is still one of our greatest challenges, partially because just making the comic and getting the books printed already takes up so much of our time. Advertising? What's that?
I hope you all have a wonderful end of the year, whatever you're up to! I'll get the January update going earlier, and I hope I'll have a lot more to say.
Happy New Year, everyone!
--Kaja
November 2022 Update: We're almost set to begin shipping!
about 2 years ago
– Mon, Nov 07, 2022 at 01:05:15 AM
Well! The printer has turned the books around much more quickly than we expected! Sharp-eyed backers will remember that our stated shipping date is January 2023, and although I beg you all to NOT count on getting your rewards in time for the various Winter holidays, we expect to begin shipping sometime next week—much earlier than we’d planned! We are still putting together the Envelopes of Madness but there are plenty of packages that we can now begin to ship that don’t need the EoM.
I’ll be locking down the addresses group by group, over time, WITH EMAIL NOTICE. This means that before I ship your reward you’ll get an email notification and a couple of days for that one last chance to review and update your shipping address. These notices won’t go out all at once, I’ll lock addresses by small package groups as we pack and ship. Until your address is locked you can always change it bylogging in to BackerKit with the email address you used for the Kickstarter campaign. Here’s the link: https://girlgenius20.backerkit.com/BackerKit
Our BackerKit preorder store remains open for the time being, as does the preorder store for Rain Games’ Girl Genius video game for Steam and the Nintendo Switch.
And now, I’m off to work on getting you all your books!
Thank you so much—
—Kaja
Actually, you can still update your shipping address directly in Backerkit!
about 2 years ago
– Sat, Oct 22, 2022 at 06:34:17 AM
I've just looked again at BackerKit and realized that I can still let everyone just log in and update their addresses themselves. I feel silly. You'll need to log in with the address you used to backed the campaign. Here’s the link: https://girlgenius20.backerkit.com/
The "contacting us" methods listed in the previous update also work just fine, and I'm busy making the changes for those of you who have already written in. Thank you all for your quick responses, and for double-checking when you're not sure! We very very much appreciate it. I'm sending a confirmation reply to let you know I've made the changes, so you know your email wasn't lost.
When I do go to fully lock the addresses, all our backers will get a warning email in case a last-minute change is needed.
Thanks, everyone!
--Kaja
If your mailing address has changed please use the link below to let us know!
about 2 years ago
– Sat, Oct 22, 2022 at 05:16:59 AM
Hello everyone--
TLDR: Please let us know if your address has changed! DO NOT just post it in the comments here on Kickstarter, we might not see it. Please use the contact form or write to us at [email protected]. Thank you!
Longer version:
I know I said not to expect shipping until January, but in some cases I'll be shipping sooner than that, starting early next week. So please, if you've moved since you filled out your BackerKit info, or need your rewards shipped to a new address, use our contact form to let us know ASAP!
The books aren't here yet but the last of the stickers just came in and I'm getting ready to pack and ship the original art. When the Arch-Nemesis cards get here we can build the Envelopes of Madness, and the books are on their way to us but that may take a while. I'll keep you up to date!
Thank you, and have a lovely Halloween!
--Kaja
p.s. If you need to contact us for any reason, please don’t rely on comments or social media, where things can often be overlooked. Please use our handy customer service form or write to us at [email protected]. Thank you!
Aaand it wouldn’t be an update without the reminder that you can find and complete your BackerKit pledge manager by going to this URL and logging in with the email address you used for the Kickstarter campaign. Here’s the link: https://girlgenius20.backerkit.com/
Backers at levels WITHOUT physical rewards can safely ignore/delete the email reminders about the BackerKit pledge manager. Unless we need your address and shipping payment, you don’t need to do anything further than accept our gratitude and thanks.
