Sha: the Kickstarter!
Launch day is Friday 8 November
I’m so excited to tell you about my first ever Kickstarter, which launches on Friday November 8! It’s for SHA: The Shadow One, the first book in a three-volume series by myself and award-winning, top French fantasy artist Olivier Ledroit.
We’re creating a stunning deluxe edition of SHA, in keeping with the high standards of French bande dessinée. Something to collect and cherish. This deluxe edition is exclusive to Kickstarter and will not be available for sale anywhere else.
We’re also offering a standard hardcover edition. Details of both, below!
What’s it about?
SHA is a science fantasy, revenge story set in the futuristic, nightmare city of New Eden. It features DETECTIVE DUFFY, who is assigned to hunt down the deadly assassin SHA.
If you’re missing the golden age of 2000AD, with its fondly-remembered classics, you’ll find similar elements and more in SHA: futuristic death games, amazing SF vehicles, crazy, robotic villains, fanatical space missionaries and President John Smith XXIX, the 29th clone of the American President.
In fact, SHA was originally inspired by my Sláine saga, where I first came across Scatha, an amazing, Irish champion who taught Celtic Cuchulain his martial arts which surely makes her … the ultimate warrior! This astonishing hero evolved into SHA – The Shadow One.
For many fans, SHA will be the first time they can get their hands on an English language PRINT edition of Olivier’s work. Because our best-selling ,12-volume REQUIEM VAMPIRE KNIGHT series is currently only available digitally in English. So for print-only fans of Olivier, SHA is an absolute must!
Almost 10,000 fans visited Olivier’s Requiem Vampire Knight exhibition this year at Angoulême! There’s also a Manga series and a Requiem spinoff series in the works. But SHA is where it all began, when Olivier and I first teamed up together and we feel our Kickstarter special deluxe edition and hardback editions do this legendary series justice.
The 77 Publications are helping us with our campaign and will be handling the fulfilment, so we’re in safe hands! They’ll be hosting a live chat for us on Friday 8th, 8pm GMT, so fans can join us and find out more. I’ll post those details nearer the time.
If you want to sign up to be notified when our campaign goes live, click here.
I’ve listed the details of the Kickstarter reward tiers and add-ons below, with some unusual and exciting EXTRAS!
Thanks so much in advance for your support!
DELUXE EDITION SPEC
Forty-six pages of gorgeous, full colour strip-art. Exclusive to Kickstarter.
46 pages strip art
10 pages bonus art gallery
Introduction and 'The Making of Sha' by Pat Mills
Printed endpapers
Ribbon placeholder
Matt lamination, hard cover with foil detail
Dust jacket with foil detail
Oversized edition: 297mm x 223mm (11.6 x 8.7 inches)
STANDARD EDITION
It’s the same size as the deluxe edition, comes with a PPC laminated cover, printed endpapers, an introduction by Pat Mills, but no foil detail, placeholder ribbon, bonus art gallery or 'The Making of Sha' feature. Will be available for sale after the Kickstarter campaign.
SHA 1 THE SHADOW ONE CAMPAIGN PLEDGES
REWARD TIERS
The deluxe edition (bookplate signed by Pat & Olivier included with all deluxe editions)
The deluxe edition + Requiem perpetual calendar (8 available)
The deluxe edition + one-to-one writing consultancy ‘Fix your Script’ 2hrs (3 x available)*
The deluxe edition + one-to-one ‘The Magic of Sha’ 1hr (3 x available) **
The standard edition
The digital edition
ADD-ONS
Sha 1 script & synopsis signed by Pat
Bookplate signed by Pat & Olivier
Sets of postcards of the art gallery
Art prints of the art gallery signed by Pat & Olivier
Signed copies of Kiss My Axe
Copies of Be Pure! Be Vigilant! Behave!
Copies of Spacewarp Punx Edition
*FIX YOUR SCRIPT Writing Consultancy
Pat brings his decades of writing and editing experience to your creative project. Whether it’s a completed story, a rough draft, or even an outline, Pat will help you fix, polish, or develop your idea.
Consists of 1 hour of Pat reading your script in advance of your 1 hour one-to-one video call.
2 hours total.
**THE MAGIC OF SHA
Spend an hour in a video call discussing with Pat the Magic of Sha. Sha was inspired by Pat’s real life experiences which were so extraordinary, he regularly gave talks about them at Psychic Questing Conferences. If you are interested in the power of reincarnation and past lives to harness your inner creativity, this is for you!
1 hour total.
Just backed it. Good luck
The covers look fantastic. The whole project exudes high quality. I love the fact the story will involve fanatical space missionaries. I want to see how that plays out. I look forward to the project launch.