So, the Last War in Albion Kickstarter wraps today. If you've not contributed, please think about doing so.
All of which said, thank you. I say this often enough, but it really does bear repeating. I have a phenomenally cool job. The reason I can do this job, though, is that all of you are repeatedly willing to support me, whether by buying books or backing my periodic Kickstarters. (And I already have one in mind for 2015 that I think I can guarantee everyone will be very excited about.) You're an incredibly generous, lovely bunch of readers, and I'm proud as hell to have earned the respect and love from people as fantastic as you.
I won't lie, this Kickstarter was a bit scary for me. I've had the sense that Last War in Albion was starting to go well, but I didn't really know if it was a project that was going to make it. It needed to find a way to start earning money, and I really wasn't sure how much it could earn. And while it's clearly not as popular as my Doctor Who stuff (which is unsurprising, given the relative size of television's audience versus comics' audience - in the US, Doctor Who at its lowest-rated episodes are seen by more people than buy the highest-selling comics several times over), it's also clearly a project that has legs, which is heartening given that I absolutely adore writing it.
So here I am, about ninety minutes into what is technically Saturday morning, having wrapped up writing up A Christmas Carol (my buffer on Eruditorum is not what it used to be) and about to grill some burgers in a midnight drizzle before sitting down with them, a bottle of wine, and... actually, it would be spoiling things to tell you what the next episode I'm going to watch, wouldn't it? Everything I get to write about for the next month excites me. Sometimes it terrifies me (the Swamp Thing chapter is 11.5k already and is not even vaguely in the neighborhood of almost done. I think that chapter is going to end up being longer than the Flood book), but it thrills me. I'm astonishingly blessed to get to do all of this work. Astonishingly.
So thank you. No clever discussion topic or anything like that. Just thank you. Thank you so much.
-Phil
All of which said, thank you. I say this often enough, but it really does bear repeating. I have a phenomenally cool job. The reason I can do this job, though, is that all of you are repeatedly willing to support me, whether by buying books or backing my periodic Kickstarters. (And I already have one in mind for 2015 that I think I can guarantee everyone will be very excited about.) You're an incredibly generous, lovely bunch of readers, and I'm proud as hell to have earned the respect and love from people as fantastic as you.
I won't lie, this Kickstarter was a bit scary for me. I've had the sense that Last War in Albion was starting to go well, but I didn't really know if it was a project that was going to make it. It needed to find a way to start earning money, and I really wasn't sure how much it could earn. And while it's clearly not as popular as my Doctor Who stuff (which is unsurprising, given the relative size of television's audience versus comics' audience - in the US, Doctor Who at its lowest-rated episodes are seen by more people than buy the highest-selling comics several times over), it's also clearly a project that has legs, which is heartening given that I absolutely adore writing it.
So here I am, about ninety minutes into what is technically Saturday morning, having wrapped up writing up A Christmas Carol (my buffer on Eruditorum is not what it used to be) and about to grill some burgers in a midnight drizzle before sitting down with them, a bottle of wine, and... actually, it would be spoiling things to tell you what the next episode I'm going to watch, wouldn't it? Everything I get to write about for the next month excites me. Sometimes it terrifies me (the Swamp Thing chapter is 11.5k already and is not even vaguely in the neighborhood of almost done. I think that chapter is going to end up being longer than the Flood book), but it thrills me. I'm astonishingly blessed to get to do all of this work. Astonishingly.
So thank you. No clever discussion topic or anything like that. Just thank you. Thank you so much.
-Phil