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Multiplex: The Revenge pre-orders are OPEN

Now that the Kickstarter project has ended and Multiplex: The Revenge is funded (yay!), I can open up the floor for pre-orders to non-backers via BackerKit. I’m using BackerKit instead of handling things through the Multiplex store (as I did with Book Two), because merging everything and keeping track of essentially two separate crowdfunding projects proved to be a huge headache; BackerKit streamlines that process for me tremendously.

NOT all of the Kickstarter rewards are available, and some are slightly different: i.e. you don’t get your name on the Acknowledgments page of the book, and while you can get vector portraits, I can’t promise that you’ll make it into the third book. (There is only so much room!) Some of the higher level rewards (like original comic strips) are not available, either — although if you have your heart set on one of those, just shoot me an e-mail, and we can probably figure something out.

The current stretch goal is to fund a second printing of Multiplex: Enjoy Your Show (Book One), a necessary step before I can doing a fourth printed book. The amount needed is $7500, with roughly $1,238.97 of Kickstarter’s surplus (the amount over the $24,000 funding goal) applicable toward that. Once this goal is reached, I’ll add Book One  as a reward goal for ANY Kickstarter or BackerKit backers (“preorder backer,” as they call them).

I’ll put up a few more visible graphics on the site later — there’s no urgency at this time, so I won’t be bugging you guys about it often. These BackerKit pre-orders will be open for several months and only “lock” in the summer shortly before Book Three goes to press.

If you do want to get your funding dollars in to help support the ongoing production of the book series, check out the Multiplex: The Revenge Pre-Order page on BackerKit today!

The Multiplex: The Revenge Kickstarter ends at 9PM Central!

Just like the headline says, the Multiplex: The Revenge Kickstarter project ends TODAY (Friday, July 31) at 9PM Central!

It has successfully passed the goal, so I do not need any additional funds to finish, print, and fulfill Book Three— but any additional funds raised will go toward the production and marketing of the book series: the creation of the bonus strips for Book Four (after Book Three is completed) or a second printing for Book One, for example.

While I will be setting up a BackerKit pre-order page to allow for “pre-order backers” (as BackerKit calls them) to order a selection of the physical rewards, many of the higher level Kickstarter rewards involve background appearances in the book and I need to lock down who those people are in order to get to work on the book. Therefore, those higher level reward packs are exclusively available to Kickstarter backers. Lock them down while you can!

Download the first chapter of Multiplex: The Revenge FREE

With four days and 30% of the funding goal for Multiplex: The Revenge remaining, things are looking a little bleak. In hindsight, there are some changes that I could have made to keep the budget (and the funding goal) down. I detail a bit of that in this post over on the Kickstarter project site, so I won’t go into it again.

I can’t change the funding goal now, though, but what I can do is add to the project to make up for that. (Again, visit the Kickstarter page for details.) And so one of the things I want to do is to share Multiplex: Chapter 11 with you — FREE — in order to give you a taste of what the whole book will be like… you know, with the obvious hope that some of you who haven’t already will consider backing the project.

I’ve also made Chapter 6 (the first one from Book Two) free, as well, because it’d be weird to have Chapter 1 and Chapter 11 free but not Chapter 6, too. (I learned that “first one’s free” thing from drug dealers in movies.)

Multiplex: Enjoy Your Show is sold out — maybe?

Multiplex: Enjoy Your Show (Book One) is now sold out at the publisher (a.k.a. me) — assuming, that is, that the Multiplex: The Revenge Kickstarter is successfully funded, and the copies of Book One reserved by backers at the “Just Three Books” and “Trilogy Pack” levels are  sent off.

You can still pick up copies of Book Two with your Book Three reward package, read the eBooks… or, you know, obviously the website still exists! The “Story So Far Pack” includes Book Two, Book Three, and the eBooks for Book One, though, which gives you all of the bonus material except for the print-exclusive “Prequel” story from Book One.

Amazon still has a handful of copies of Book One left, too — as well as Multiplex: There and Back Again (Book Two) — but I’ll start looking into reprinting Book One if/when Book Three is successfully funded. There are a lot of hurdles to figure out with reprinting Book One, particularly the printing cost, but if I do get it reprinted I’ll make sure Book Three backers will be able to “upgrade” their reward pack to add a copy of Book One, even after the Kickstarter funding period has ended.

But you don’t need Book One or Two to enjoy Multiplex: The Revenge! While I would recommend starting with Book Two, at least, there will be a “The Story So Far” segment at the beginning of Book Three to help new readers (or people who haven’t read these older strips in a while) get up to speed, just like there was at the start of Book Two. You can read Book Two’s segment over at Kickstarter, if you’re curious.