PLANETS BURN IN OUR PASSING

CLICK HIM!!

(This is just the Update from the KS so if you are on there, get ready to read the whole thing again.)

Where were you all when I was Kickstarting renaissance chivalric poetry you damn cowards???

Ok we certainly have enough to print the book, pay D Shugars for a decent PDF and hopefully storage as well.

Now we need to find ways to crash the project through insane, poorly-thought-through stretch goals which seem simple but end up being insane nightmares which annihilate all hope.

And for that, we need YOU, our backers, our commmmunittteee.

Our original ideas were;

Embossing or foil - embossing doesn't work without having a tight, distinct image on the cover, which this definitely does not. I suspect foil would also be complex for the same reasons.

Thicker paper - I like this but my main worry is the thickness of the book itself, If we can keep the book and packaging below 2.5 cm thick, that makes us a 'large letter' to the Royal Mail, meaning we go into a lower postage bracket, which is something I would really like to keep considering the international audience for the book.

Bigger print run - we are going to 2000 - the worry there is storage - affordable, *dry* storage is basically a room, which if I stack the books up can hopefully fit them all, but I have no clear image in my head of how much mass, or how many pallets 2000 books will be & not knowing this keeps the storage issue "hovering" which I don't like.

Stickers -eehhhhh

Bookmark - maybe, if we can do something interesting with it.

Dustcover - Scrap persuaded me out of this originally since they hate them and since then I have started to like the relative cleanness of the book without one but maybe..

Here's my terrible idea - A POINTLESS CARD

Like a card with the False Machine Trilobite logo and a word balloon coming out saying "You have a unique and valid sense of identity number ##" and they would all be individually numbered.

And on the back would be some bullshit, I don't know. Like "Respected Community Member; Community, identity, Stability."

And we could do them on insanely expensive paper, like one of the cards from American Psycho.

And it could technically get you a discount on future False Machine products - if you buy them in person, which will never actually happen since I am not leaving this flat again.

Its kind of an anti-marketing "joke" on people doing Kickstarters primarily from FOMO or to have a valid online persona rather than for the actual thing, and also a 'loyalty card' that will never do anything useful. I suppose if you ever met me in person you could whip it out and force me to admit that you are a Valid Individual.

Anyway, we are open to your TERRIBLE SUGGESTIONS! This momentary success can't be allowed to stand in the way of Scrap and I's long history of self-destruction and systemic failure! Together, with YOUR help, we can find a way to crash this thing!

COMMUNITY.

IDENTITY.

STABILITY.