Survey (SUPER IMPORTANT!), Add-ons, and..... Inked Revamped!!!

Hi everyone! 💗

Oh my gosh, what a rush yesterday was!! We soared right past our final SUPER stretch goal and then skipped off together into the sunset to enjoy the spoils of our remarkable labors! 🥰🌇

Now, as promised, we have some extremely important and highly-anticipated updates for you today, so please read to the bottom, especially if you are new to Kickstarter or are having payment issues (orrrrr are interested in how to read certain Zaddy (Zayn Daddy) bonus chapters 😘)

Pledgebox Survey (IMPORTANT!)

In just a few minutes, we will be sending out a survey today from a pledge manager called Pledgebox that will function in 3 ways:

1) Ensure we have your address and contact info so that we can mail you your rewards later this year. IF YOU DO NOT FILL OUT THIS SURVEY WE CANNOT MAIL YOU YOUR REWARDS. So please make sure you fill it out and also let us know (by emailing support@rachelrener.com) if you move at any point before we ship your rewards in the fall. We will send out a reminder about that as we get closer to fulfillment!***PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU TRIPLE CHECK UNIT AND APARTMENT NUMBERS, AS WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR MISSING PACKAGES IN THE EVENT AN ADDRESS IS ENTERED INCORRECTLY OR INCOMPLETELY!***

2) Allow you to nab all those add-ons you were most interested in, like the Biscuit plushie and Silver Blood-only slipcase! This is especially important for those of you with installment plans who did not want to cancel and re-pledge in order to get those add-ons.

3) Provide a preorder store for people who did not have the means to get the books in the month of April. The temporary store will be open THIS MONTH ONLY. After that, we will only be accepting preorder interest forms if we happen to have extras of the black-out editions and/or holographic foil slipcase after fulfillment, and we don't expect to have many, if any.

NOTE: If you don't see the survey in your inbox by 3pm MST today, please check spam and then add rachel@rachelrener.com to your address book to ensure you don't miss any future important updates!

Zaddy Issues 😈❤️‍🔥

Because all of you CRUSHED that seemingly impossible super stretch goal, I will officially be rewriting Inked from Zayn's POV. I secretly started working on that project two weeks ago, when I saw how fast we were approaching $200k, and I couldn't be happier that we unlocked it!

Because of that, I am incredibly excited and proud to say I've already gotten seven INKED chapters posted to my brand-new Patreon account (including 1 never-before-seen before chapter, with 20 more of those coming this year!), which I will devote entirely to all things Zayn/Gilded Blood: Zayn POV chapters and bonus material, the discounted duet-narrated Silver Blood audiobook for those of you who don't have Audible accounts, AND - down the road - a gorgeous special edition black-out, foiled paperback book from his POV that ONLY you will have access to. (Hey, when you're too excited to sleep you get a LOT of extra time to brainstorm 😂😅)

The best part is that this Patreon will be totally FREE to Kickstarter backers for the first 30 days if you use the Kickstarter-specific link that was sent to your email. There are 1000 free slots (the maximum Patreon would allow me) and 1200 Kickstarter supporters, so if you know you'll want access to Zayn's chapters, please join today!

After thirty days, the price for the Zayn Lover tier will be $7.99, which I promise to never raise.

I expect to post 1-4 chapters a month from his POV, and if you guys love them, I am 100% open to rewriting the ENTIRE series from Zayn's POV. If you've read the Gilded Blood series, you know there is a LOT going on with and around Zayn that Talia doesn't see.

Most of all, I am looking forward to the gorgeous foiled EXCLUSIVE paperbacks that will ONLY be available to Patreon Zayn Lovers. Speaking of which... Wanna see the rough concept I came up with on the plane back from Toronto?

I'm thinking holographic foil lettering and sprayed edges to match the deluxe edition hardcover. (If enough of Patreon supporters want these, I could keep the pricing quite low, like around or below $30.)

So, what do you guys think? Would you also like me to create a Silver Blood special edition paperback? If so, I could start working on that relatively soon! If you guys wanted, we could have 5 black-out Zayn-POV paperbacks total, which I would release with each finished installment. Let me know your thoughts! 😍

Payment Errors - We're seeing quite a few of them :'(

Now is the time when Kickstarter collects payment from all our backers and we finalize our rewards list. There are a large number of backers with payment issues that need to be resolved so please take a moment to confirm that your pledge was completed successfully. Kickstarter will remove your pledge if payment isn’t completed by Wednesday, May 7th, and we’ll lose the ability to contact you. So please don't miss out on this exclusive opportunity, because we will NOT be doing another print run of this ultra-limited collector's black-out edition! (We also get charged for all failed payments, which we are held responsible for, so it would mean a lot to us if you would take a look!)

If your payment didn’t go through, you should have a message or email from Kickstarter to check your payment settings. You can also read Kickstarter’s detailed support article here.

*** PLEDGE OVER TIME***

If you utilized the pledge over time (PLOT) function for this campaign, 25% of your pledge was charged yesterday. From here, KS will collect the 3 remaining PLOT payments every 2 weeks for the next 6 weeks.

PLEASE NOTE - AND THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT: If your payment method has an issue, Kickstarter will automatically email you and inform you that if you want to keep your pledge, you will need to fix the payment method. You will have two weeks to do this, after which time your pledge - even if partially paid - becomes a dropped pledge. Any pledge that is not fully paid will NOT be fulfilled. So please make sure you are paying attention and being proactive!

If you have any issues with payments, my team will not be able to help you as we don't have access to the payment-collecting side of Kickstarter. You will need to contact Kickstarter support. You can also read this helpful article on common questions about PLOT.