Skin Horse 5
Shaenon: Skin Horse Volume 5 is happening! At least, I hope so. As of today, we’ve launched a Kickstarter to fund Volume 5. Not only that, if we reach our first stretch goal, we’ll be able to reprint the currently unavailable Volume 1. So really, you’re getting two Skin Horse books at once. Anyway, the Kickstarter is running from now through November 9. You can check it out here:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/250007708/skin-horse-volume-5
Tell your friends!
Channing: We’d love to be able to print this mama, and we can do it with your help! Just look at how pink that cover is. You totally want a book that color to be a thing that exists. You also want to own said book. You have your reasons. Far from me to tell you what those reasons are, but if you are hunting for one, you can always use the fallback that it is totally great. That’s what works for me.
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Just checked Kickstarter, and it didn’t come up.
I can’t see the link. Do I not have the right clearance?
Same here, but I’m on my Nook Color…will check later on my real computer.
Much better here. Is that Nick?
Darn it, makers of wonderful things! Stop putting all your crowdfunding efforts at the same time so I fill my bookshelf instead of eating things!
But yeah, guess I’m probably backing this once my next load of cash comes through. For now, I am stuck in a staring contest with Baron Mistycorn up there.
Oh yes! What a wonderful color!
*cover
I searched, too… discovered the Narbonic books, now going to check them out at the buy site…
The Kickstarter is up now and live!
I would *like* to contribute. Really. And I tried. But the Kickstarter info leads me to a page where I’m supposed to sign up for Facebook—which I won’t do.
This is the second Kickstarter this has happened to me with.
If you sign in to Kickstarter FIRST, then follow the pledge link.
I did the same double-take this morning.
Problem is there is a marketing gimmick thing where you can use you FB sign-in and cookies to sign in automatically to a bunch of different sites. Much like I can see the FB sign in icon below the typing block for this message. The KS interface just isn’t’ as intuitive
Also, unlike some other sites, If you do accidentally log in with Facebook, Kickstarter allows you to set up a password and unlink your Kickstarter account from Facebook.
According to my “list o’ passwords,” I already have something with Kickstarter. I will try that and see what comes up.
Well, that did it. I have now contributed. And, near as I can tell, I have not joined Facebook in the process.
But I see things have broken through the first goal, even before my contribution. Congratulations!
(TUNE: “Mambo Number 5”, Lou Bega)
Skin … Horse … Volume Five,
Now it’s time to kick off our funding drive!
To get in print costs a mint, it gets harder!
To raise the funds, we’ve begun a Kickstarter!
Mary, and Gussie, and Nick all princess-y!
So give us money, or it’ll get messy!
Now we’ve begun having fun, when we’re done
Then we might reprint Volume One!
So give us some dough, it’s in the banks …
Or give us some mo’, and we’ll say thanks!
Or maybe you’ll get a PDF …
An autographed book by Sarge and Jeff …
Original art that’s comic-stripped,
Or maybe we’ll let you write the script …
So come out to Shaenon’s birthday bash!
(But only if you cough up the cash!)
Backed, I’ve been looking forward to this Kickstarter.
An observation – I just re-read the storylines that comprise the first five books, with all the characters that hint at revisiting, and I’m thinking that we may be easily up to volume 10 by the time SH begins to wrap up.
The Wheel Of Time effect with so many plot lines. (Jordan’s interviews/notes indicated WOT was supposed to be about 4-5 books max as originally conceived).
Continuing hints of RT with a plot. Continuing Mr. Green with a plot. Goldbug (if its not really Mr. Green) with some sort of plot. I really think we may run into Unity’s super-notary role again, especially in light of periodic references to Unity’s status as a Notary. Gavotte with an unknown agenda/goal for the organization. Recurring visits from Tigerlily indicate a future role. Recurring Jonah/Nera hint at future roles (I’d love to have things last long enough to have the core cast attend their implied future wedding). The Whimsy colorization/perspective shift may have ramifications beyond introducing color to the comic.
The Future of SH looks very extensive and bright indeed from my perspective as a reader. I look forward to many more years of waking up and reading the updates on my phone while getting ready for work.
Eh. The “WOT effect” is ad ecidedly negative term to use – one could point oo positive cases of a world/universe expanding far beyond its scope and staying interesting and vibrant, too.
That aside, I’m not sure your post was *meant* in a semi-negative way – the final paragraph seems to indicate differently.
Either way, I’m not so sure. Tigerlilly’s a recurring side character; I don’t know whether she’ll ever actually be important in the larger sceme of things, or will just serve as a fall-back for “in-between” storylines, à la Madblood. Mr Green/Goldbug/Gavotte are all probably part of one big story – though nobody says we’ll actually ever see much of it. The Daves were, on one hand, incredibly powerful and important to the story of Narbonic, but never fully fleshed out or made the topic of a storyline. Could be similar. The Whimsy perspective shift is certainly important – just like the (temporary?) closing down of SH, and the background-legal-stuff….
Truth is, I don’t know if we’re really clear on what the real end game will be. Cfr Narbonic [SPOILER] the relationship between Dave and Helen was “clearly” a part of it, butthe whole Dave-going-mad was, while heavily foreshadowed, not really picked up on by a lot of readers.[/SPOILERS]
I’m fairly confident Shaennon and Jeffrey could close this off to everyone’s pleasure in one more book – but I sincerely hope there’ll be 10 books when it’s over.Or however many they can make without either the quality of the work suffering, or them losing their pleasure and drive in making this story.
Also, backed.
I use “WOT effect” in the sense of writer (or story) got carried away but there is intent to complete it properly anyway. I’ll admit WOT ended with unresolved plotlines, and in doing so created new unresolved lines, but so does life.
I’ve known other book series to have ‘run away’ but that is the freshest in my head, and the best ended, Having twice re-read it (WOT) end to lengthy end last winter. The Mission Earth books by Hubbard were way too long with minimal story. War and Peace was too florid – cut out all the extra names and its not bad. Most of the Episodic fiction of the 70’s and 80’s all outlived their quality (Destroyer, Mack Bolan, Gor, etcetera) and should have given up many volumes before they finally did.
As a side note: grumpy Princess!Nick with his “him” preferred-pronoun shirt (in princessy cursive, no less!) is fantastic. Nice cover!
The shirt actually says “Whimsy,” but the hoodie cuts it off conveniently.
Pleased and humbled at all y’all’s support already. Thank you so much, everyone.