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Mag and Pen: Spring Cleaning - Book 1

A story of magical and undead friendship.... and ROACHES, DEAR GOD.

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Mag and Pen: Spring Cleaning - Book 1

Mag and Pen: Spring Cleaning - Book 1

Mag and Pen: Spring Cleaning - Book 1

Mag and Pen: Spring Cleaning - Book 1

Mag and Pen: Spring Cleaning - Book 1

A story of magical and undead friendship.... and ROACHES, DEAR GOD.

A story of magical and undead friendship.... and ROACHES, DEAR GOD.

A story of magical and undead friendship.... and ROACHES, DEAR GOD.

A story of magical and undead friendship.... and ROACHES, DEAR GOD.

PenScales Design
PenScales Design
PenScales Design
PenScales Design
1 Campaign |
Birmingham, United States
$151 USD 8 backers
25% of $600 Flexible Goal Flexible Goal

I'm an illustrator from Birmingham, AL who loves horror, humor, and crazy characters.

Do you love any of those?  This may be your cup of tea!

The "Mag and Pen" series, targeted mainly more towards youngins but definitely not lacking amusement for everyone else, already has about nine separate books already written out.This particular one, "Spring Cleaning," follows the two creaturesque besties as Mag explains what horrors await Pen if she doesn't clean her nasty house up.... something I know I definitely try to teach my crazy-brained child on a regular basis.

Nine books are already written. This is the first to be fully illustrated! ....and the next release, which is significantly longer and features ALL of the main cast, is already sketched and awaiting its glorious color to bring it to life!

The purpose of this campaign is to help fund the printing of the first book, and honestly, any little bit helps! (But the perks are a huge plus for you guys, right?)

The book is fully ready and illustrated and good to go, but includes quite a nice little deposit to get that ISBN and the initial printing expenses taken care of. After the minimum order size is completed, everything becomes significantly more affordable and way more focus can be directed towards finishing the illustrations for the second book.

For any contributions made towards this project whatsoever, EVERY LAST BIT (even if the goal isn't reached) will be dedicated towards the initial printing and publishing fees. Not a single penny will go anywhere else than besides to the creation of the physical copies of the "Mag and Pen: Spring Cleaning" book.

For most contributions, you will have the options for perks like character prints, stickers, etc. For the heavy-hitters, I'll even include a portion on my main website for top contributors to this and any other projects that may be listed on this funding website in the future. There's something for everybody!


TIME FOR THE NITTY-GRITTY:

What happens when the goal is hit? Or what happens if it isn't reached?

Any contribution at all is appreciated more than you can imagine! What happens if the goal is reached? The printing process can happen IMMEDIATELY once the goal is obtained, but if not, any funds will go towards that deposit anyway, and there will just be a slightly longer release date than hoped for. This project is literally ready-to-go, I just can't personally devote the full deposit amount at this exact point in time, so why not let the supporters chip in and get some cool rewards in the process? Win-win for everyone, and you'll forever have my eternal gratitude. :)


So it this a kid's book, or an adult book with kid characters?

As a parent, as especially one of a child with peculiar interests, I appreciate a break from the generic hero and princess and child-learning-a-lesson stories once in a while. This project takes that and turns it into something tangible. Everything in the story is fully child-safe and won't break your kid, but it's loaded with silliness and unusual characters (a unicorn girl and a stitched-up, zombie-like boy? yeah...), but still keeps it short, funny, and occasionally has a discreet lesson in it, like the importance of cleaning your room (or in the next book-- the importance of taking care of your pets so they don't accidentally get unleashed and terrorize the town!). But yeah, no profanity, no actual legit mature themes, etc. Totally fine for kids of all ages, but definitely a breath of fresh air for parents with slightly 'alternative' interests, if you catch my drift!


How much of a book will I be investing in?

This first book is actually the shortest of the ones written, but has landed close to about 14 pages total. The others are significantly longer and have more complex and silly storylines spreading over much more space, but since this was the first, I kept it more to the point to see how the overall project was received. If this is as much of a success as I'm hoping it to be, I'm throwing myself full-time into getting the other books in the series entirely completed! Otherwise, they'll still be ongoing projects, but will take longer to produce while I continue to work on other projects equally alongside 'em.


I want to support this project, but I can't contribute anything financially! :(

And hey, that's totally okay! You know what helps just as much? Just share the link and help promote the campaign and the book, and that's fantastic! If you're on instagram or twitter, I'll totally even give you a shoutout because just helping to spread the word is a hugehugehugehuge help, and I appreciate it a ton!


What about this "InDemand" thing that keeps going after the campaign goal is reached?

I've selected this option for anyone who wants to contribute further, and all additional funds will be used strictly for producing extra copies of the book or go towards the expenses of printing the second book! All contributions FOR THIS PROJECT will be used strictly FOR the "Mag & Pen" series, no personal profit will be made from this except for from sales of the actual copies of the book itself.

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Promotional Character Stickers

$5 USD
Want some goofy stickers to help promote the campaign or simply to beautify everything you own with dramatic unicorn and zombie-dolly faces? This is the perk for you!
Estimated Shipping
March 2016
2 out of 20 of claimed
Ships to United States of America

Promotional Mini-Print

$10 USD
A nice little 5x7 promotional print of Mag & Pen.
Estimated Shipping
March 2016
0 out of 25 of claimed
Ships to United States of America

Promotional Print: Pen

$15 USD
A cute little promotional print of the tiny unicorn lady of the story, Pen!
Estimated Shipping
March 2016
3 out of 15 of claimed
Ships to United States of America

Promotional Print: Mag

$15 USD
A promotional print of the stitched-up, zombie-like, sass machine: Mag!
Estimated Shipping
March 2016
0 out of 15 of claimed
Ships to United States of America

Listed Contributor Perk

$25 USD
Want your name plastered across the "PenScalesDesign.com" website for being such a glorious contributor? This is your ticket to doing so.
Estimated Shipping
March 2016
2 claimed
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