Bundle up, Mooncakes
Stardust will be featured not once but twice at Minnesota Webfest in Duluth, Minnesota next week!
Our pilot for Chapter 3 will be screened during Block #2 on Friday, October 4th at 2pm. Our award-nominated trailer will be screened during Block #4 on Saturday, October 5th at 2pm. If you are attending—screenings are free—and you see Voidfarer shirts or other Stardust merchandise in the crowd, don't be shy!
To celebrate Stardust's award nominations, we're having a rare sale! We are offering 33% off store purchases with code WEBFEST and 33% off annual Voidfarer and Voidmaster memberships with code ASCEND. Our members get free shipping! Check out the swag!
If you supported us on Kickstarter, your exclusive embroidered patches are now in manufacturing! We hope to mail them all out before the end of the year, perhaps by the holiday season.
Changes from Kickstarter
I also want to spell out some changes you might have noticed.
We have removed the 20% off offer in our store for our Voidfarers and Voidmasters, replacing it with free shipping. There are several reasons we needed to make a change here, one of which being the big inflation bug bear that is concerning everyone around the world right now. Dropshipping is not a profitable business. We don't engineer our merchandise to make any significant profit margins, as we want to keep the prices as reasonable as we can. But with costs rising on consumer goods around the world, it has become increasingly difficult to manage this discount on a universal level. That is, while we will have the occasional sale like our current Webfest sale, it will often be the case that our net income from such sales will only be a dollar or two. We can't sustain that business year-round.
We do want to reward our supporters and patrons with something similar, and that's where free shipping comes in to replace what was formerly a discount. This offer is much easier for us to manage in the long-term, because it is often a flat fee we can take care of for you.
In addition, as has been mentioned previously, the uptake on the hardcover limited edition of Stardust was far too anemic to justify production. We will be offering refunds to those few Kickstarter backers who chose this add-on option.
I take full responsibility and sincerely apologize for this change, but I hope the replacement perks are agreeable. Be assured that the audiobook and additional Voidfarer content is in full production. If you are a Voidfarer, you may already have glimpsed a few previews in our Discord. We're excited to show you much more of what's in store by the end of the year.
Clear skies, friends.
— Faith K. Falkner
Narrative Producer
