{"id":1520,"date":"2012-02-17T13:17:08","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T17:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/?p=1520"},"modified":"2012-02-17T13:17:08","modified_gmt":"2012-02-17T17:17:08","slug":"thrilling-tales-kickstarter-update-and-work-in-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/2012\/02\/17\/thrilling-tales-kickstarter-update-and-work-in-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Thrilling Tales: Kickstarter Update and Work in Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center;margin-top:8px;\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thrilling-tales.webomator.com\/kickstarter\/clockwork_book\/update03_last_stand.jpg\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/101187357\/the-lair-of-the-clockwork-book-limited-edition-har\/widget\/video.html\" width=\"480px\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"width:450px;margin-left:25px;margin-top:12px;\">\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom:3px;\">I&#8217;ve posted my third project update over at Kickstarter, in which I draw some comparisons with my last fundraiser over there, and then muse a little about things done, right and wrong.\n<\/p>\n<p><div style=\"float:left;margin:10px;margin-left:0px;margin-top:8px;margin-left:-16px;\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"380px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/101187357\/the-lair-of-the-clockwork-book-limited-edition-har\/widget\/card.html\" width=\"220px\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>And while we&#8217;re nearly two thirds of the way toward the end of the Kickstarter drive I&#8217;m working on as planned. With just eight illustrations left to go for the book, I&#8217;m also working on the paperback edition&#8217;s cover. I&#8217;ve caught up the book design to include the most recent pages and I&#8217;m thinking about the other bits and bobs, like a frontispiece and a bookplate design &#8211; not a separate bookplate, but one that&#8217;s printed on the endpapers.<\/p>\n<p>As I mention in the update I&#8217;ve seen a dramatic increase in traffic over at the <em>Thrilling Tales of the Downright Unusual<\/em> web site. A lot of those new readers are coming back for the new pages as they appear. So I&#8217;m starting to wonder whether I was wise to plan a brief hiatus before my next serial. After all, I&#8217;d like for those people to <em>keep<\/em> coming back; but I also need to make much better progress on Part Two of <em>The Toaster With TWO BRAINS<\/em> before the next serial begins.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a puzzle, and no mistake.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p align=\"left\">\n[tags]thrilling tales of the downright unusual, the lair of the clockwork book, the toaster with TWO BRAINS, kickstarter, crowdsourced funding[\/tags]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve posted my third project update over at Kickstarter, in which I draw some comparisons with my last fundraiser over there, and then muse a little about things done, right and wrong. And while we&#8217;re nearly two thirds of the way toward the end of the Kickstarter drive I&#8217;m working on as planned. With just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thrilling-tales","category-works-in-progress"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}