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Preorder SCD's OST Volume Beta

I started a small campaign to help get SCD's second original soundtrack finished. Most of you know SCD recently had a very successful Kickstarter to fund its second volume's printing, but its counterpart, the OST, was an afterthought. I had no idea how incredible this record was going to turn out. I had planned to do all the mixing in house and not master it, planning only a digital release. But then it grew and expanded. Many studio days were booked, scores of musicians donated their time, and even now, the record is still amassing more epic sounds with additional studio time booked! So many people came together to make this record possible. While OST Alpha was a single effort, OST Beta has become the work of a truly talented ensemble of folks. To not let it be properly mastered and pressed would be an injustice to all their hard work. Your contribution will help give this project the finish it deserves!

Almost all the incentives for the SCD Kickstarter have been finished, so those will start going out very soon. :D Volume 3 is starting this week!! So excite - check over at starcrossd.net for more.

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The Star Cross'd Destiny Volume 2 Kickstarter has launched.  There are a ton of really cool rewards, including amulet necklaces, original art, new music, and even a tour in New Orleans!  I hope you'll check it out and consider helping me out to finally print this bad boy. It's gonna be so pretty, you guys!  Let's rock this!

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Input Needed

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Hey friends, I could really use your input.  I'm putting together the insides of Volume 2. What extras should I include? Is there anything specific you've seen in webcomic trades that you'd like to see in SCD? Or something you think would be cool?

I'd so love to hear your thoughts on this!  Please shout at me.  Don't leave meh hangin!
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I posted this on the ol' Tumblspace yesterday as a sort of definitive answer to whether there will be a print edition of Volume 2.

I went back and forth on it a lot, but ultimately decided after nearly a year of consistent updates and staring down the last ten pages of Volume 2 that even I would like to have it in print. This portion of SCD overcame the most shit, survived moves, hard drive crashes, shitty ex-boyfriend dramas, and more giant life changes than I can count. It shouldn't have made it out on the other side, but here we are. So why not celebrate it and toast the beginning of Volume 3? I'd love to.

So here's what's gonna happen. We're going to Kickstart it.  Much like the Absinthe Junk campaign, you'll get a chance to preorder Volume 2 (in full smashing color, I might add) along with a slew of other neat stuff. If the campaign goal isn't met, I'll just print a few for myself, and just be happy in the fact that the damn thing is finished and I can move on to the next installment. If the goal is met though, I intend to take it out into the world with force - hopefully hit several conventions and the like in 2014 and 2015.

So yeah! It's coming! I'm not quite sure when, especially with the holidays looming - but I'll keep you all posted. I truly hope it all works out - it'll prove that anything can be overcome and I'm kinda psyched to really get in that mindset.  :dance:
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Ten Years, Pt 1

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I posted this on my Tumblr, but thought it belonged here as well. :)

When I look back on it, there's a lot of things I wish I could change about how Star Cross'd Destiny was handled throughout the last ten years. You always wish you would have waited to start your brainchild until your craft was more developed. They don't tell you that your craft will never stop growing or changing. You're young and you want to tell a story about two characters you really love. They don't tell you that you'll look back on your writing and shudder, or that mistakes is how you become a better writer. Being an artist is like being a teenager - you think you know everything in the present, but you really know nothing. I can't wait to hear what ten years from now me has to say about all this.

I'll be honest - while I wish that the hiatus and all the road blocks never happened, I'm grateful for the time I was forced to take off. I got older, and my perspective changed so dramatically. Sure, I hate that I lost my audience, my numbers, and a great deal of reliability for storytelling - but those three years after the hard drive crash, I learned. I wrote and I dreamt, created and grew. And my brainchild and I fell away from each other for a very long time… What's funny about that, is while we were apart, I found their pain. I experienced it, I repressed it… then I felt it, and I figured out that just because everything hurts, doesn't mean it's raining all the time… that you can breathe underwater.

So ten years later, I'm still only 230 odd pages into my oldest story, and while that's a bummer, I'm glad I waited. I'm glad I had the chance to grow, live, and cry without it because now - now I'm telling it understanding the pain, but more importantly, I understand the joy.

I'll have more revelations next week along with a super special celebration pic. Stay tuned! Here's to ten years, friends. :ahoy:

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