The Amazing Marc Simonetti & His Digital Art Package
about 1 year ago
– Tue, Mar 21, 2023 at 03:12:32 PM
Hi Shannara Backers,
Finally, after so long, I'm pleased to share the Digital Art Package piece of The Scions of Shannara Special Anniversary Edition Kickstarter.
As a matter of fact, I believe BackerKit is sending out notifications to everyone even as I write this. At least, I hope that's what is going. This is my first time creating a digital art package as large -- and as gorgeous -- as Marc Simonetti's work on our beautiful books. I've done my best job to get you files you can use without infringing on Marc's legal rights to his art.
I highly recommend you follow Marc on his various social media platforms. He's been absolutely amazing to work with these last few years -- he even won a Chesley Award for his Grim Oak cover on The Sword of Shannara -- and I hope to keep working with him in the future!
If you have any questions, do let me know. I'm always around.
Your WebDruid,
Shawn
PS: If you want to own some of these digital art prints as physical prints, The Signed Page has an art portfolio for your consideration.
Digital Art & More Slipcases Offered
about 1 year ago
– Sun, Mar 12, 2023 at 04:48:40 PM
Hi Shannara Fans,
A short note here. I have finished preparing The Signed Page for the release of The Druid of Shannara on March 15th at 11AM PT. I'm conducting some tests to ensure lettered and rare edition owners of The Scions of Shannara have password-protected access to buy their matching letters/rare numbers. Limited edition owners of Scions will of course be able to match their numbers too.
I do want to share that I'll be delivering the digital art to all of you on Friday this coming week. Marc Simonetti painted such brilliant imagery and it is time to share it as promised.
And lastly, many of you -- so many -- missed out on ordering the slipcases for Scions and Indomitable. Dozens and dozens of you have reached out to me hoping to get them. Well, enough people have asked that I feel like the cost per slipcase will be doable, and I can offer them again as a pre-order. Here are the links:
Indomitable Slipcase: https://signedpage.com/product/indomitable-sn-slipcase-by-terry-brooks/
Scions Slipcase: https://signedpage.com/product/the-scions-of-shannara-sn-hardcover-by-terry-brooks-copy/
More news coming later this week.
Shawn
PS: Watch Terry and I reveal the Druid artwork here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiZE3-tAqHLFOAlGwkZjktg
The Digital Art Package
over 1 year ago
– Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 05:23:14 PM
Hi All,
Now that the Shannara physical items have shipped, I'm receiving a lot of requests for the Digital Art Package that is owed. I'll be working on this over the next three weeks when I have any sort of down time -- which isn't much given the holiday, family commitments, and especially shipping out Kickstarter copies of Digger by Ursula Vernon and Patrick Rothfuss.
Needless to say, you will be receiving the Digital Art Package. I just need time to create it. I haven't forgotten about it.
For those of you in the US, I hope you have a safe and joyous Thanksgiving holiday.
Shawn
Shipping is 99.9% Finished!
over 1 year ago
– Tue, Nov 08, 2022 at 12:05:16 AM
Hi Shannara Fans,
First, let me say it has been honor producing these books. I'm a fan like you, and I think the books and merch items turned out pretty snazzy. There were some issues -- like the colossal cards having minor damage due to poor shipping from the printer that they wouldn't redo or our artist Marc Simonetti not allowing his pen ink to dry completely as he signed, creating some smudges -- but otherwise I'm pleased with the end results. For the colossal card snaffu, Terry and I decided to create an envelope for the cards to sit within, an extra bonus from our original intention. We hope you enjoy that. And one more note: I've had two people who ordered the Art Portfolio wondering where their Unsigned/Signed extra art print was. The Art Portfolio was for 13 colossal cards and 2 cards that were stretch goals. The 2 cards are inside the Art Portfolio already.
We finished shipping over the weekend. It took about 7 weeks all told. USPS will do a giant pick-up this morning and then all packages will be gone from me. With the exception of about 8 packages since those backers haven't completed their survey. I've reached out to them via email/Facebook, and hope to have those completed in the coming days/weeks.
The Druid of Shannara Special Editions might not be a Kickstarter after all. It may just be a pre-order on The Signed Page. As far as I can tell, Kickstarter doesn't have the ability to allow the Lettered Edition tier to only be backed by the owners of the Scions Lettered Editions. I can see a huge headache there with new backers trying to buy the Lettered Edition and causing all sorts of mischief. I'll be talking about this more with Terry. The better news: We won't be doing pre-orders until early 2023. That way, all of you will have monies to spend during the holiday season.
That doesn't mean we aren't moving forward with The Druid of Shannara now though. Lixin Yin continues to produce beautiful artwork. The book is already designed. And I'm about to have the signature pages printed since Terry is close to finishing the the first draft of the third book in The Fae of Viridian Deep series. He'll have time to sign soon. All elements will be finished and at the printer by January, so we will already be far ahead of this process by the time you pre-order. That will shorten the delivery time considerably, probably in late Spring or early Summer! Yay!
And I've already hired the artist for The Elf Queen of Shannara. She's absolutely amazing. Can't wait to share that news next year!
What else to report? I leave today for the Grim Oak warehouse where I'll be helping Becky ship out copies of Digger Unearthed by Ursula Vernon & Patrick Rothfuss. The shipping just continues for me, taking me away from writing. But I don't mind it too much. I like happy people.
If you have any questions, feel free to ask. I'm always around.
Happy Day!
Shawn
PS: Some people have asked about when the additional copies of the books, slipcases, and merch will be available on The Signed Page. I'll pick a date and time soon for that and it will be shared in advance and on multiple newsletters and social media channels. Details coming next week more than likely. Stay tuned.
Still Shipping & The Druid of Shannara
over 1 year ago
– Tue, Oct 25, 2022 at 06:32:15 PM
Hi Everyone,
Thank you for your patience. Hunter and I are still shipping out pledges. Yes, we received books weeks ago but Terry still had to sign many of them. Then Daughter of Darkness published -- Terry's new book -- and we had to ship out those 600 books. And then I was gone to NYCC to soft-announce my forthcoming new book from Skybound Entertainment (more on that soon). Now that that's done, we are right back to the Kickstarter pledges. This week should see all of the remaining regular edition pledges shipped as well as the beginning of the S&N editions shipping. Lettered and Rare will come after that.
Meanwhile, artwork continues to go well for The Druid of Shannara Special Editions. Below is an iteration of the wrap-around cover for the book by Lixin Yin. Terry had a hand in its design decisions, especially the look of Quickening and Eldwist. We still have to tone back Walker's heritage a bit as it was said in the book that his Elf features weren't that pronounced. We are still thinking about launching this new Kickstarter in mid-November. But again, it depends on wrapping up The Scions of Shannara shipping and giving people enough time to look at their gorgeous volumes.
Is mid-November good or bad for people given the approaching holiday season? Would love feedback from all of you!
Meanwhile, Terry is about five chapters from finishing the sequel to Daughter of Darkness. Pretty exciting! If you haven't read Child of Light, I think it is pretty special and Daughter of Darkness is more so.
Hope you all are well. More soon!
Shawn
PS: Please try to refrain from writing me asking where your pledge is until after I've written an update sharing all packages are gone from me. Asking merely slows me down, I'm afraid. We are getting there. Hope to be done in the next two weeks.
