From Friday through Sunday, I’m going to have three days of ridiculously good, one-day deals. And it’s time for day one!
ON FRIDAY ONLY: Get the new Pugs and Anatomy of Animals books for 25% off when you get them bundled! Here’s the link: https://sheldonstore.com/products/25-off-one-day-only-anatomy-of-animals-pugs-unleashed
Friends!
On Thanksgiving Day, I’m going to be sending out an exclusive DRIVE eBook to all my $5-and-up supporters on Patreon.com/drive! It’s all the reference pages gathered into one eBook: All the encyclopedia entries, the maps, the timelines, and more!
The eBook will ONLYgo out on Patreon, and ONLYon that one day. It seems like a fun way for me to say “thanks” on Thanksgiving!
If you’ve ever thought about supporting DRIVE, this is the best time to jump in! There’s only 8 days left until Thanksgiving, so join us HERE!
Thanks!
Dave
SHORT VERSION: The book looks amazing!
LONG VERSION: Press proofs came in, and the above video takes you through all the different parts of the book production! It’s pretty neat to see, if you’ve never seen all the parts that go into a book.
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ALSO: 92% of you have given me your shipping address, but I’m still waiting on that last 8%. If you haven’t given your address, go here — https://driveact2.backerkit.com — and follow GET MY SURVEY. Thanks!
ALSO ALSO: I’m giving away a 55-page eBook of all the Drive reference materials on Patreon! If you’ve been looking for an excuse to support Drive on Patreon, HERE’S YOUR CHANCE! The eBook will only go out to $5-and-up Patreon backers, and only on Thanksgiving Day! You’ll also get all the other Patreon exclusives — but the eBook is a rad special offer. So join us, here: https://www.patreon.com/join/drive?
Hey gang!
This past weekend, I met a few employees from Reddit, and they talked me into starting a subreddit for DRIVE. So, voila, check it out:
I’ll be honest. I haven’t…loved…the Disqus system on the DRIVE site. So! In anticipation of designing the new DRIVE site in the upcoming months, I thought we’d try Reddit over Disqus.
Reddit is the fifth-largest website on the internet, and most (all?) of us have interfaced with it once or twice, at minimum. The up-vote system is brilliant, and there’s a broadly understood segmentation of ideas/conversations under different “Posts”.
So! It’s a process: We’ll try this out, and see how folks like it. In the meantime, feel free to chime in at the subreddit…and see what you think!
The full story for DRIVE came to me during at a book signing at Meltdown Comics in Los Angeles in 2007.
Since that time, I’ve only told one person the final ending for DRIVE: Fred Schroeder, the Director of the comics documentary “Stripped.”
He’s the only one that knows.
But! About six months ago, one Patreon backer guessed, pretty much point-for-point, the final plot lines of the story. I intentionally said nothing, and waited for their comment to get buried in the sands of time. But now, I thought we’d have fun with that.
So! Patreon backers, here’s what you do:
1.) Watch the video!
2.) Write your theory of how the story of DRIVE will end on >>THIS PATREON POST<<. We’ll check back on your theories when the story wraps up, to see who was closest!
3.) If Fred Schroeder is reading this: YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO POST.
4.) And if you want: You can like/heart the theory you think works best. Whether it’s yours or someone else’s!
I put a cool Tesskan illustration up on eBay, starting at just one penny. Go snag it!
https://www.ebay.com/itm/292797561393
This is so neat! As part of the DriveKickstarter.com game goal, Carrier Lost built a Lego Fillipod. And then kindly made this video on how to do it!
Thank you, Carrier Lost!
…and if you do build your own, please take a pic and share it with us!
Sheldon readers, do I have big news! You now get PUGS UNLEASHED and ANATOMY OF ANIMALS *free* as eBooks, when you get the Drive Hardcover Book!
Even better: If we can get to 1611 backers for the Kickstarter, every hardcover will get ALL EIGHT SHELDON COLLECTIONS as eBooks!
All eight! Free! 1,000 pages of award-winning comics! Free!
If you’ve never read Drive — or missed getting book one — this Kickstarter is the best way to jump in. The comic was designed to be read in book form, and this book is gonna be beeee-ooootiful, thanks to the 16 stretch goals we’ve unlocked.
Join us! And let’s get those Sheldon collections!!!
LINK —-> DriveKickstarter.com
Friends! Thank you for spreading the word about DriveKickstarter.com: Because of you, we just unlocked our EIGHTH stretch goal!
That means that every hardcover gets a super cool dust jacket…which means we get to add a second, HIDDEN cover like we did for ACT ONE. That hidden cover was made to look like it was held in the Familia archives. This one will be made to look like it’s held in the Jinyiwei archives in the Panopticon on Nuevo Chile! Have a look, below!
And keep spreading the word — the *next* stretch goals adds two maps to the hardcovers on fancy Endpapers!
>>>> DriveKickstarter.com <<<<
Friends! If you like the sweet, goofy humor of SHELDON, might I recommend you try my sci-fi comic, DRIVE? I’m Kickstarting the new DRIVE book right now, and this is *great* chance to get books 1 and 2!
>>>> DriveKickstarter.com <<<<
(…and if you’re overseas, it’s also the lowest global shipping prices I’ve ever had — so add in those SHELDON books!)
DRIVE is a mix of serious, epic sci-fi (like DUNE) and goofy, joy-filled humor (like HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE). The Post-Standard review says “The story is serious…the characters are hilarious.”
I hope you’ll join me for it! It already funded in hours — so we’re on to the amazing stretch goals, adding fun stuff to everyone’s book!
>>>> DriveKickstarter.com <<<<
Thanks friends!
Dave
