Our Kickstarter campaign finished yesterday, and Phase one: Virtual Puppet Rocko, will begin in a few weeks. We are still joyful and grateful for all the support and activity that we’ve had around our project, but we are also feeling a bit Kickstarter campaign weary. Now we are gearing up for a trip to Baltimore to drop our oldest off at college. Of course, Rocko will be coming right along with us, but as of yet, no events scheduled. We do plan, however, to gift a few copies of the book to each of our universities since both Rodney and I attended college in Baltimore.
When we return, I plan to get started revising the next book in the series. Eighteen years ago, I wrote a five book series for Rocko Rocket, but I’ve learned so much since then that I feel will make the series a lot more engaging for young readers. Rodney will work on updating the website so people can purchase a few of the things that were featured as rewards on Kickstarter. He will then begin creating the virtual puppet and an animated short for our Kickstarter backers. At the same time, both of us will work to gain corporate sponsors to produce our pilot episode for our animated series. If not an animated series, then a web series. We will see how it goes.
In the meantime, we will still be working to secure events, workshops and distribution sites for the first book to expand our fan base. So, all in all, we clearly have a lot of work ahead of us. For now at least, in the past two years, we have launched two successful campaigns and published a first book. We’ve made a lot of progress, and the support of our friends and family motivates us to keep reaching for the next goal.
Lastly, if I write about a character that is persistent and never gives up on his dreams, then I definitely want to practice what I preach.
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