A Darker Shade of Magic - Illustrated Deluxe Edition
Created by Wraithmarked Creative
Book one of V. E. Schwab's New York Times Bestselling 'Shades of Magic' series, brought to you as an illustrated deluxe hardcover!
Latest Updates from Our Project:
Next Steps for A Darker Shade of Magic! And a new campaign!
7 months ago
– Tue, Feb 06, 2024 at 06:12:33 AM
Howdy, all!
We wanted to follow up on Friday's update with some additional info about what y'all can expect next for this campaign. Here's what you can expect in the coming weeks and months.
Next Steps
First, Kickstarter will process all of your payments. That will take approximately 15 days.
Once the payments have been processed, we will send out surveys to the email addresses you have attached to your Kickstarter account.
Answer your survey questions and grab any extra Add-Ons you want. We will process charges for those orders a couple of days after the surveys go out.
As we get all of the products made, you can expect to see an update from us at least twice a month. So stay tuned here for all the latest! Sometimes those updates may have a bunch of exciting news, other times they may be quick and relatively uneventful.
8-14 months from now, once we have the products and are ready to start fulfillment, we will post an update and send an email giving everyone 48 hours to update their addresses if needed. Once that window closes, you will not be able to update your address yourself and will need to contact us directly to make those changes.
With addresses locked, we will start packing and shipping. This final step will take some time. We appreciate your patience. ❤️
Please be aware that the times mentioned above are estimates. We try to stick to them as much as possible but sometimes it takes an extra day or two to move on to the next phase of the process.
Foil Colors
Now, Victoria mentioned in the Kickstarter campaign that we'll be enlisting your help to decide the foil colors on the cover and page edges for the series. We will be collecting your preferences on that via Backer Surveys once they go out. Once we have roughly 85% of surveys filled out, we'll announce the results.
$300k+ raised! Holy COW people!!
8 months ago
– Fri, Feb 02, 2024 at 03:30:01 PM
That's a wrap!
Thank you so much to everyone who backed this deluxe illustrated edition of 'A Darker Shade of Magic'! We will have more information for you coming next week, so you can look forward to instructions on getting us your shipping address, post-campaign add-ons, and the like! This is just a quick CONGRATS and THANK YOU SO MUCH from the team, who are all enjoying a well-earned weekend now!
Thank you all, and you will hear from us very soon!
$250k Stretch Goal Reached & Art Update!
8 months ago
– Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 06:42:08 AM
Howdy all!
Y'all have been incredible! As of just a few minutes ago we reached our $250k Stretch Goal, which unlocks an additional interior art piece by Felix Ortiz!
Next up, at $400k, we get the final interior art piece from Felix! That would make for 14 art pieces in each book! Let's see how high we can make this climb!
Art Updates!
Wraithmarked has heard your feedback about Kell looking too old in several of the art pieces! This has been a concern of Victoria’s throughout the process as well, and we’ve been polishing the works since before the Kickstarter even began! Here is the new colored endsheet, complete with a more age-appropriate Kell!
$150k Stretch Goal Unlocked!!
8 months ago
– Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 07:11:15 AM
Howdy, all!
Wow, what an incredible first day! By the time the day was done, this campaign had earned the title of "Highest Day 1 Funding" of any of our campaigns! This also means you all helped us unlock our $150k USD stretch goal! Thank you so much!
Now, each copy of this book will have not one, but two custom endsheets illustrated by Felix Ortiz. The first one you may have seen on the main campaign page, but you can also take a look at it below. This one will go in the front of the book, while the second will be in the back. Needless to say, once that new piece has been completed, we'll share it in a future update! :)
And yes! We are gong to be making sure Kell looks younger both in this endsheet AND in the new one if he's on it! 😁
Front Endsheet art by Felix Ortiz
The next stretch goal up to bat is the first of four additional interior art pieces we hope to get from Felix. At $200k USD, that will bring the total illustration count to 11, with the stretch goals for the 12th, 13th, and 14th close behind. Let's see how fast we can get there!
Man these Stretch Goals are dropping rapidfire! Also, AMA with V. E. Schwab over on Reddit!
8 months ago
– Tue, Jan 09, 2024 at 07:03:23 AM
Hey all! First, thank you guys AGAIN (for the second time in like 30 minutes) for another Stretch Goal falling down! We are struggling to keep up with the pace at which we have to tweak the campaign to show it's growth!
In other news, though, Victoria has an AMA happening on r/Books right now, and we'd LOVE it if you have time to pop over and toss the post an upvote and question if you have one! The better it does, the more eyes on this project and the more likely we are to keep knocking out more and more Stretch Goals!
