Another quick update: the Pre-order Store is now live and open for business. If you missed out on the main campaign, you can now pledge for the hardback book and associated add-ons. This pre-order store will run until summer 2026, when I will have to lock in for order numbers and shipping addresses. 

If you have any friends who missed the campaign and wanted to see what the fuss is about, let them know! Thank you all and should have a more substantial update regarding progress on the manuscript next week. 

Hello everyone, just a quick update to let you know I am back in the office after my break. I had a lovely time abroad but picked up some kind of illness on the journey home and spent a few days recovering. Happily everything is fine and I'm back at work this morning. 

The first thing to work on is setting up the pre-order store and reward fulfilment portal. I am hoping to have that all working before the end of the week, so anyone who wants to make a late pledge should be able to do so by Friday. More as it happens!

Dear wanderers, we are almost into the final 24 hours of the BackerKit campaign! This has been a crazy month for me and honestly a life changing success for a one man creative team! I will be able to focus solely on delivering this project to you all wherever you may be. From the bottom of my heart, thank you all so much. I know you have put your trust in me and I do not intend to disappoint.

Once the campaign finishes on the 30th of August, BackerKit will begin collecting pledges and processing the payments. Please do make sure you have the right payment method connected to the pledge. You will be able to alter your pledge until we lock orders, which won't happen until next year, so you have a few months to grab some more add-ons if you'd like.

I'm going to be on holiday from the 2nd to the 16th of September, so I won't be answering comments or making any updates. Once I return all pledges should have been processed and I will set up the BackerKit pledge manager and begin distributing some PDFs. Everyone who pledged for a digital download of Vaults of Vaarn #4 or Pariahs of Vaarn will get those zines as PDFs as soon as I'm back, and a full preview PDF of the core rulebook should follow soon afterwards. 

Just a note to say there has been some noise regarding the suspension of the de minimus threshold for US customs. My understanding is that this should not affect the delivery of the project. Books are still exempt from tariffs and the only added charge is an extra 50p paid to the Royal Mail to ensure my packages are customs compliant. It is irritating but such is life. 

If it looks as though the tariff-exempt status of printed matter is changing, I will let everyone know and discuss options moving forward. 

Dear wanderers, we are entering the final stretch of the campaign. It's been a wild summer and I'm really excited to jump into working on the project full-time from October. Thank you all once again for the amazing show of support. This will be a quick update but there are a few things I wanted to address. 

I had a question about shipping to the EU and whether backers would have any customs fees or VAT to pay. Having spoken with my distribution partners I can confirm that there should not be any unexpected fees or customs handling charges. To quote directly: 'we can ship customs friendly to the EU using a mixture of IOSS and DDP shipping methods. So the backer should not get charged customs at the door.' 

If you live in the EU and were worried about extra charges during the fulfilment process, hopefully this answers your questions. 

Hey folks, just a quick update this week as we're now past the halfway point in the funding campaign. Obviously everything continues to go really well and I've taken some further days off, in anticipation of lots of hard work to come over the following year. 

I do have a small amount of sketching to share. I've been working on some ideas for potential chapter heading drawings. Having enjoyed doing the large wraparound cover image I'm cooking up some more Vaarnish landscapes for the book. Hopefully you'll get to see some of these as final versions!