Bastard's Notebook

So, tomorrow's Windrow-Ravenswood Day.

What the hell does that mean? Well, not all that much really- as far as dates go, there's about six different ones I could've arbitrarily picked for it- but the one I ended up going with, March 10th, made the most sense to me, simply because it was the day that the final card in the deck was uploaded.

Now, what does that mean for anyone else running it? Well, I figured I'd do a one-off bit of a celebration. That means there's going to be a few things happening. For one, there'll be a bit of an interesting contest over on the official Tormented Artifacts Twitter feed. There's also going to be a special kind of sale running on Tormented Artifacts itself- which'll be another way, aside from the contest, to get free schwag.

All of which is coming up starting tomorrow morning. So if you're on twitter, definitely start following the feed I linked above. Otherwise, you'll have to watch this space and wait for the announcements to hit here from elsewhere.

WRD: The Gambler's Case by =Winneganfake on deviantART

Need I really say more at this point?

Well, my bnirthday happens in seven days, and given that, I figured I should be giving everyone a reason to celebrate.

So, for the next seven days or so, until just after my birthday, I'm running a horder of sales.


First off, over on Redbubble, all of my t-shirt designs have now had 10% knocked off the price!

I've also done the same thing for four of my own personal favorite prints on DeviantArt:




(Just click any of those images to go to their respective ordering pages.

And finally, there's the Really BIG sale bit-I'm taking five bucks off the Windrow-Ravenswood Deck. That's right- for those who haven't grabbed the nigh-infamous deck yet, or just want an extra copy, you can grab one for the next few days for only fifteen bucks. Just hit the link above or the animation below to go grab a copy.



Other than that, well, enjoy the next week! I know I will be.

Wow.

Ok, as of today, I'm officially off the muscle relaxants, and seeing a huge improvement already in my mood, energy level, and even pain levels. I'm not going to be an idipot and try to get caught up on everything at once, but at least now I can start operating semi-normally. This is damned good news.


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In other news, I'm in a bind on one thing- there's about thirty international orders sitting here, and thanks to the prescriptions and other things I had to unexpectedly pay for with no other funds to access, my shipping account has been drained. I only need to sell about 4 or 5 more decks to cover the shipping fees, and then I'll be able to get stuff moving out again on monday. If people can help spread the word about the deck today and this weekend, that'd be a huge help. Or if you've been thinking about ordering a deck but have been holding off on it, now would be a great time.

If you're up for helping, here's some tools:

-The direct link to the deck page via Tormented Artifacts: http://tormentedartifacts.com/deck.html

-The previous Livejournal promo posts and such about the deck- feel free to grab material from here: clicky.


And no- I'm not holding the orders back until those sales come in. Come monday, I'm shipping them out, whether I have to overdraft myself or not to get them gone. either way, they will be out of here come monday- I'd just rather not bankrupt myself to do it, if I have the option.

Holy crap. Ok, just got a bunch of shots of the cards in process from the printers. Note, these have not been color adjusted or anything so their camera may be off on coloration with stuff. It should also be noted that they're still printing- I do not have decks yet, this does not mean they're here yet. At the same time though, here's our first glimpse of them as a real live physical object, and dude, that glimpse is awesome.






Things are getting close to the finished decks being shipped to me though, and once I get notification of that, we'll be switching from pre-order mode to full on order mode on the website, which means the price will be changing. So, if you want to grab them while they're still at the pre-order price, now is definitely the time.

And for those who don't have it handy, here's the link to the pre-order page again: clicky here.

WRD: The Box by =Winneganfake on deviantART

WRD: King of Bones by =Winneganfake on deviantART

WRD: Queen of Sea by =Winneganfake on deviantART

All right guys, I need some opinions here, so comment up, please. And no, commenting is not a commitment to purchase anything later or anything like that, but I do need some opinions.

So, In between drumming my fingers nervously and waiting for word from the card printers, I've been looking at options for other stuff involving the Windrow-Ravenswood material. T-shirts and such is one angle, of course, but there's also one product I couldn't help but thing about putting together right off the bat:

A book.

Specifically a guide to the deck, done as a downloadable pdf or made available on Lulu. If it's just a download, I'm not putting a ton of effort into it- it'd just be plain text for the most part, for simple and easy printing and use at home- minimalist layout.

If I go ahead and put it on Lulu, I'd be dragging out InDesign and going full bore, though- Each card would be getting a two page spread, featuring the card itself (though in black and white, as color printing on LuLu gets bloody expensive) and a page opposite that with description, divination text, and other bits. That's 108 pages of material right there, and there'd also be more with statement sections, some divination spread ideas, possibly a WRD-based poker variant. In short, decent-sized useful paperback with pictures, that'd probably cost about as much as the deck itself did. Would people be interested in picking up a copy of such an item if I made it available?

WRD: Knave of Circles by =Winneganfake on deviantART