A Darker Shade of Magic - Illustrated Deluxe Edition

A Peek Behind the Curtain. And an exciting new project!
over 1 year ago – Tue, Dec 10, 2024 at 06:30:50 AM

Hi Everyone!

We have a neat little update for everyone today! One of the final pieces of design work— right before actual printing of any kind gets started— is getting the template files for both the book's dust jacket and case. The measurements of these are unique to each book and are largely based the total page count, which informs the final spine width.

Below are a couple of screenshots of those templates for A Darker Shade of Magic! While we have a general idea of what the case and jacket will look like going into a project, our designer Shawn T. King will use the templates below to fine-tune our initial designs to match.

Also, we have a new campaign for Wraithmarked's first omnibus!

The collection of the first three entries in Seanan McGuire's Hugo Award-Winning series, Wayward Children in a single hardbound deluxe edition! Take a look!

Our first venture in combining multiple books from the same series into a single edition, this book comes to you designed from cover to cover by Shawn T. King and features exterior and interior art by Lena Richards! Take a look!

Update to Wraithmarked Support and Update Policies
over 1 year ago – Wed, Nov 27, 2024 at 09:27:27 AM

Hi everyone!

If we haven't made our formal introduction update on this campaign yet: Hi, I'm Eira, Head of Crowdfunding and Fulfillment over here at Wraithmarked and I'm here with my colleague Heather. Nice to meet y'all (or possibly hello again).

I'm interrupting our regularly scheduled updates to let you know that we're slightly changing how we handle a few things here at Wraithmarked, first and foremost, how we offer and manage support. Second, our update frequency. So let's jump right into it!

Wraithmarked Support

Over the last couple of years, we've been very fortunate to see our audience grow considerably and we've expanded to account for that. We started taking email support requests, brought new people on board to help, and transitioned from an email inbox to a ticketing system. None of it has been perfect, but we've always tried to provide you all with the best support possible.

So here we are again, making a change to hopefully improve your experience as well as ours. At time of writing, there are three primary ways for you to contact us: Kickstarter comments, Kickstarter messages, and our support email. Over the last few months, wrangling all of these different channels has exposed a few inefficiencies that we'd like to address.

Effective immediately, if you need help with something, please send an email to [email protected]. If you send us a Kickstarter message, we're going to reply with a form response asking you to send your request to our support email. 

You're of course welcome to comment as you feel you need to and we will reply to your comment as soon as we're able!

Support Hours

If you've never contacted us for any issues, here are a few important things for you to keep in mind. First, we are open 8am - 4pm EST. Second, we are closed on all Federal US holidays. Finally, when you contact us, we will have your request assigned to either Heather or myself AND we'll always do our absolute best to reply to your request within 3-5 business days.

Update Schedule

Over the past couple of years, we've generally held to a firm stance of posting 2 updates on each campaign a month. While in many cases we have plenty to talk about, sometimes— particularly if books are crossing the ocean— there's not much to share. So, going forward, our campaign update policy will be "no less than 1 update a month".  Even though we'll continue in our endeavor to share 2 updates a month with you, there may be months where there is only 1 update.

Thanks so much for your time and your continued support! We'll catch you in the next update!

— Eira & Heather

Quick Check In...
over 1 year ago – Wed, Nov 13, 2024 at 07:35:01 AM

Hey Everyone!

We wanted to take a moment to remind everyone that you can access your pledge information using the following link and entering the email address on your Kickstarter account. Even though we're still a little ways out on production, it's never a bad idea to hop in to make sure your shipping information is up-to-date!

We'll post a few more reminders about this as we get closer to fulfillment, but along the way, if you have any questions please feel free to send us an email at [email protected]. We're open Monday-Friday 8am-4pm (excluding US holidays).

Short production delay, but for a good reason!
over 1 year ago – Thu, Oct 31, 2024 at 10:32:46 AM

Hi Everyone!

We have a bit of good news for everyone today! A few months ago we posted an update here and on several other campaigns that cloth printing was not viable. This was based on proof copies we received for our Deluxe Edition of THE WAR OF THE WORLDS by H.G. Wells. As a reminder, here's what those looked like:

Now, in the immediate aftermath of that, we made the call to move everything to paper rather than risk every cloth-covered book turning out like those. And admittedly, we may have been a little overzealous in that decision. 😅

In the months since, as we worked on other parts of each project, our fantastic print coordinator, Dyrk, worked tirelessly to source and test some new potential cloth materials for our covers. And did he come through or what? We wound up testing seven or eight alternatives to what was used on those WAR OF THE WORLDS proofs and found one that we thought performed well for both color and black & white printing. Take a look at our sample below:

So, with all that said, this process delayed us a little so we could run the above test prints, but has allowed us to move back to cloth printing as promised!

Thank you all for your patience, and so glad we can get the cloth-bound books to you as promised!

Interior Design Complete!
over 1 year ago – Mon, Oct 21, 2024 at 05:58:58 AM

Hey everyone! 

This will be a quick update for you all today, but our glorious designer Shawn T. King has completed the interior! With that done, we'll be able to send that off to our printer and start the pre-press process.

As we get more updates on this part of the process, we'll let y'all know!