Home at last, and LESS THAN 14 HOURS left on the clock for the #RookAndRose pattern deck Kickstarter! When I wake up tomorrow, we will be in the closing frenzy!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mariebrennan/rook-and-rose-pattern-deck/

ALL GOALS UNLOCKED!!!

We have reached every. single. goal. in the #RookAndRose pattern deck Kickstarter, with 32 hours left on the clock!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mariebrennan/rook-and-rose-pattern-deck/

Aaaand came back from dinner to find Stretch Goal #7 in the bag! Last one is printing the decks on premium card stock -- and we're 5 backers from the "joker" bonus cards going into the deck! #RookAndRose

About to head out to a celebratory almost-done-with- #DragonCon2023 dinner with @alychelms, I see we are a mere $380 from adding pattern dice to the #RookAndRose Kickstarter, and 12 backers from printing the extra cards in the deck! 47 hours to go! #DragonCon

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mariebrennan/rook-and-rose-pattern-deck/

50 hours left, and more than halfway to stretch goal SEVEN -- pattern dice and a game to play with them -- and 14 backers from printing the joker cards! At this rate, premium card stock might actually happen! #RookAndRose

Sunday #DragonCon2023 schedule:

1 p.m.: The Baba Yaga
2:30: Is Nostalgia Killing Creativity?
5: signing at The Missing Volume, booth 1201 (Mart2, floor 1)

56 hours left in the #RookAndRose pattern deck Kickstarter! Gather ye add-ons while ye may! #DragonCon

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mariebrennan/rook-and-rose-pattern-deck/

🎶IT'S THE FINAL COUNTDOWN🎶

The #RookAndRose pattern deck Kickstarter has entered its last 72 hours! We're 20% of the way to the special "Rook and Rose" card art stretch goal, and 28 backers from adding that card to the physical deck!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mariebrennan/rook-and-rose-pattern-deck/

🎶IT'S THE FINAL COUNTDOWN🎶

The #RookAndRose pattern deck Kickstarter has entered its last 72 hours! We're 20% of the way to the special "Rook and Rose" card art stretch goal, and 28 backers from adding that card to the physical deck!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mariebrennan/rook-and-rose-pattern-deck/

Napped after my morning #DragonCon panel and woke to find the #RookAndRose pattern deck Kickstarter is only $74 from the full-color guidebook stretch goal! Can we make it there by the end of the day? May we see the Face and not the Mask . . . #DragonCon2023

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mariebrennan/rook-and-rose-pattern-deck/

Today's #DragonCon2023 schedule:

2:30 Overlook Westin, signing w/ @alychelms
5:00 The Missing Volume in Mart2, signing w/ @alychelms 8:30 Chastain 1-2 Westin, Playing with Fire: The Fae in UF (panel)

promoting the #RookAndRose Kickstarter: all day

Just ONE WEEK LEFT in the #RookAndRose pattern deck Kickstarter -- don't miss out on books, tea, enamel pins, horoscopes, Tuckerizations, art, and of course the pattern deck itself! We're a third of the way to our fourth stretch goal . . .

(Alternatively: one week left of having to hear me talk about this. I promise, we're nearly done!)

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mariebrennan/rook-and-rose-pattern-deck/

#ICYMI (our deluge of #RookAndRose pattern deck progress over the weekend), we have:

1) funded,
2) blown past the 1st stretch goal (additional game),
3) blown past the 2nd stretch goal (fiction from me),
4) and unlocked the 3rd stretch goal (hand lettering)!

Our next stretch goal is short fiction from @alychelms , followed by full-color printing for the guidebooks. With eight days left, let's see how far we can get!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mariebrennan/rook-and-rose-pattern-deck/

Wait, seriously? We are EIGHT DOLLARS from our third stretch goal?

. . . I'm gonna wait just a bit to send out our next update and see if that ticks upward. #RookAndRose

Heyyy, Eurasia! While you were asleep, the #RookAndRose pattern deck Kickstarter not only funded but got 2/3 of the way to its first stretch goal. Will I wake up to find that one in the bag?

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mariebrennan/rook-and-rose-pattern-deck/

OMG! I love the #RookAndRose series so much! <running to Kickstarter> https://wandering.shop/@swan_tower/110855211259149843

We are $1K away from paying these three for their gorgeous art -- let's get this over the finish line! #RookAndRose (5/5)

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mariebrennan/rook-and-rose-pattern-deck

Third is the awesome Avery Liell-Kok. Enjoy her tale of spite-motivated learning, finding a new artistic style, and dream imagery in #RookAndRose! (4/5)

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mariebrennan/rook-and-rose-pattern-deck/posts/3891902

Second is the excellent H. Emiko Ogasawara. Read about her adventures in a wide range of different artistic media and her ideas for how deck production is done in the #RookAndRose setting! (3/5)

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mariebrennan/rook-and-rose-pattern-deck/posts/3889818

First up is the amazing A.C. Esguerra. Check out their interview to see what inspirations and references they're drawing on for their work, and which #RookAndRose character they most stan! (2/5)

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mariebrennan/rook-and-rose-pattern-deck/posts/3887312

Embarrassingly, it's taken me until *today* to notice the Tricat echo (woven throughout the #RookAndRose series) of us having chosen three artists to work on the pattern deck!

But to celebrate that trio, we've been running interviews with them in our last few updates! (1/5)