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Robot dreams!

It came in with 30 votes, which was 2x as much as heart eyes, and a lot more than the instruction manual covers. Here's the full wrap, though it's still in WIP so there will be text and color tweaks. Here's our main character bots, Sterling (front) and Zev (back) looking at the same sunset and dreaming. <3




If you really liked the others, though, I have added them as $5 print add-ons (except heart eyes doesn't have the text on it) for the purpose of the campaign (limited edition!) You can always let me know if you want a poster or bigger print or whatnot via email and I'm happy to make that happen too.

We're also a little under $200 away from everybody getting a booty bot print. So if you want that freebie, adding a $5 print to your pledge will help move us closer to that line. Pretty please share this campaign with any friends or family members who might enjoy some gay robot sci-fi - I'm just starting out as an indie author and the more copies I can get into readers hands the happier I will be! You can easily use my quick link TheWarmMachine.com and it'll send them here (so no one has to remember the long annoying BackerKit URLs).

Oh yeah, I owe you folks a robot don't I? Based on the build a robot poll, we have a robot that's 31% head, 10% neck, 11% torso, 17% arms, and 28% legs. Here they are, in all their glory:



Now, let's give the bot some features, what do you think? Go ahead, pick what I should add. You'll have only a few days to add features so choose quickly! :D

Hey everyone! Thanks so much for supporting my goofy lil book and helping with my polls. Based on the poll numbers, you folks voted mainly for the original cover (which I won't use, sorry... I will explain in a bit), the instruction manual sketch, and the hearteyes sketch. I spent the last week drawing and designing all of these and aside from a few small tweaks, they're more or less ready to be used as a cover. I just need YOUR help deciding.

But let's talk about the original cover for a minute.

Apparently, unbeknownst to me, there are a group of people who are perceiving the cover to be a robot's butt, rather than the intended shoulder plate. Since I knew the cover I was using here was rough and pretty ambiguous to begin with, the idea was never to use it for an actual printed product. But... This was hilarious to me. I had to have a friend trace the butt for me, and now people are coming out to tell me they, too, saw a butt.

That's not what Sterling's butt looks like though! Not at all. Ah, I must fix this injustice.

So... HERE'S YOUR ACTUAL BUTT COVER.

This will not be a choice in the poll (sorry) because while the butt is great and very indicative of my sense of humor, I don't think it's as good of an indicator of the story inside as some of the others. And I know if I put it on the poll everyone will vote butt and it'll be all over. REGARDLESS! If we reach $2,500 I will put a 4x6 print with every physical tier. So you too can have your very own piece of robo-ass.

Anyway, onward to the covers! I have 4 choices for you, and you can vote on each in the poll attached. The choices are:

The poll will be open for a week so please help me out by getting your votes in ASAP!

This is W I L D. I can't believe you folks got me to goal within an hour of launch, and overnight you got me over 1k. So while I sit in a daze about this, I'd like to turn your attention to some Very Important issues I need help with.

The first is, we need to build a robot. And you can help build this robot by voting for what to add to the bot. Then, the robot will become. I don't know when, but it will just... happen, at some point. Vote for what to add to the robot here.



Obviously that was a very important order of business but I do have more decisions to make.

Not sure if I should do glossy or matte covers for the paperback and hardcovers... So if you could vote on that it'll help me a lot in deciding. :)

As you might know, the cover is in flux. I need help deciding which sketch I should work on throughout the campaign to make the final cover art. You can also vote to just keep it the same too. :D

A giant thank you to everyone for helping me get here this quickly! I have lots of secret little goodies and thank yous along the way, so I appreciate any shares you can do to help me get there. We have only just begun. 😈

The final card artwork for the Lesbians in Space oracle cards are in! Check em out and get them by backing this project AND Lesbians in Space (but LIS needs to ALSO be funded 100% to get these cards and my cards!)