Success… And a personal update

Well, the campaign is a success and part one of the ordeal – getting the money to get the books printed and shipped – is over. Over the next couple of days I’ll be getting the different levels of surveys together so that I can get eveyone’s information as to addresses, T-shirt sizes, e-book formats, and the like. I also have to finish editing the book as well as sequencing the mix CD soundtrack that the $50 level pledgers will be getting.

I was working on both yesterday evening when I got a phone call from my mother, urging myself and my wife to head on over to the house because she was getting dizzy and short of breath. We head there and before we know it, we were calling 911. I will spare you all of the details but right now she is in ICU at one of the better hospitals in the area and as of a half-hour before this crowdfunding campaign concluded, she was stabilized. My friends on Facebook and Twitter are a little more prithee to what happened and the positive vibes, thoughts, prayers, and whatever else have you are helping as well. The tubes and wires have the shit scared out of us, though, so we’ll see what happens. When the campaign closed, my wife and I were on the way home from the hospital – not how I envisioned this campaign ending, but under the present circumstances, things could have been even worse.

Part of what I am saying is that if I don’t get to getting everybody’s info immediately, that’s why. But if I do, don’t be surprised by that either – I just might be working on all of that to keep myself sane and busy.

Beyond that, I have to wait until Amazon Payments releases the money (about 14 days) so that I can get it into my account and order the books. Between now and then, I get to finish the final edit of the book (already in progress since I started this campaign), format it for the printer, format it again for the e-book distributor, get the shirts ordered, pay Chris for his amazing artwork, do up the mix CDs, handle whatever other premiums are due to folks, etc.

I shall be keeping everyone updated both here and at this book’s Kickstarter page and the Facebook page for this project. In the meantime, THANK YOU TO EVERYBODY THAT HAS PARTICIPATED.

- CJ Marsicano