Half-Price Sale in Polychrome Heroics
This week, the poetry of Polychrome Heroics is on sale for half price from Monday, June 20 through Sunday, June 26. This series is superhero fantasy. It features themes of heroism, coming of age, diversity, identity kink, family of choice, friendship, and cultural engineering. Sale prices range from $35.50 to $134.50, so hopefully there will be something for everyone.
Prices on open epics are locked at the time of opening; however, if anyone wants to donate to open epics and buy poetry, spending $100 will get you the quarter-price rate on the new poems, regardless of the rate on the open epic(s) you support. There are two open epics at present, so you can open another if you wish. " Rainshadow Road" belongs the Daughters of the Apocalypse series. It needs $154 to be complete. " The Heart's Best Tenant" belongs to the Steamsmith series. It needs $147 to be complete.
We are repeating the special discount for purchases of $100 or more, in which you get poetry at 25% of its original price instead of 50%. (Note that this increases the amount of poetry you get, rather than reducing the amount of money spent; the point is to get this stuff off of my desk. Yes, I can afford it.) That size of donation also makes you a k-fan which comes with some other perks, like a year-end collection of a poetic series. If several folks want to bundle their orders to make the $100 threshold and have one person send it all, that's okay; you'll get the discount and I'll list all your names as donors, but you'll have to decide amongst you who gets the k-fan credit. If you host a pool, please close it the day before the sale closes, so you have time to collect funds and turn them in on time.
Some of the poems are in sequence of related action, so in places there are prerequisites before a poem can be published. They can be sponsored at any time, just might have to wait for publication until something else gets posted first. Those are marked accordingly. I have also made lists of poems which unlock sequels, and poems which have prerequisites.
Linkback perk: The following poems have verses left to reveal. Boost the signal for this half-price sale and tell me which poem you want to extend.
" Everything That Blooms"
" In the Shade of the Mighty Oak"
" Let the Children Lead Us"
" Autumn's Palette"
" Pumpkin Spice Prosperity"
" Delight in Another"
" A Sense of Weather Changes"
" Ouroboros Insects"
" The Loving Embrace of Night"
" Generations of Cooks Past"
" Begin to Understand Ourselves"
" Homefree and Clear"
" One Bite at a Time"
" Stars and Diamonds"
" Mishpocha"
About characters and storylines: The storylines feature multiple characters, so if you want poems about ONE specific character, look closely. The thumbnail descriptions here give some indication who features in each poem. The storyline pages are adding precise, complete information about which characters appear in each poem. If you need more than what's already visible, you can ask me.
About timing: If you want maximum choice, shop early. We usually send a batch of things to my father near the end of a sale, and those poems will be posted as I have time.
About pools: Yes, you can combine your funds with other prompters to get the quarter-price rate. Yes, you can combine your funds with other prompters to buy a bigger poem. Yes, you can offer to match donations by other people. However, the wordsmith is not also a math whiz! After several attempts to find a way that I can work with pools and matches, I have concluded that this is over my head. (I did figure out how to avoid generating fractional pennies, though: all initial prices are now whole dollars, which means they cut evenly into halves and quarters.) So if you want to host a pool or a match, make a post for that in your blog or other venue, then comment here with what you're doing and include a link to wherever the discussion will be. You figure out the poems, you collect the funds, and when stuff is fully funded, you send me the money and the list of what it's for. Then I'll post the goodies. Please close the pool in time to collect donations by the end of the sale, so I can start posting pool poems no later than the day after the sale.
Before placing your order, please check this sale page to see what is still unsold! I will try to update the page as things sell, and it's likely to be the case that some poems will be marked SOLD before appearing in posts. People often buy things in batches, which means that selling gets ahead of posting. Also sometimes people ask for the same thing at the same time, so that not all overlaps are preventable. If you have alternate instructions in case you request something that has just sold, please include that in your message; otherwise I'll email you back and ask what you want to do.
Currently available are the following poems. Some are in series chronological order, and others are just kind of stuck wherever, because sequencing Polychrome Heroics is like trying to sequence a dozen different comic book titles from the same publisher. See the thread page for Shiv.
Poems that unlock sequels: "The Sort of Things That Make People Stop," "The Unbearable Clarity of Lost Things," "A Heart Is Not a Box," "Inevitable Like the Seasons"
Poems that have prerequisites: "Public Art as a Team Sport," "Clothes Worth Wearing," "Inevitable Like the Seasons," "Something We Create"
FOR SALE
15 poems, $2564 ÷ 2 = $1282
prices from $35.50 to $134.50
THE BIG ONE (3 poems, was $349, sale price $174.50)
"A Murmuring, Fateful, Giant Voice"
Story Date: Sunday, May 29, 2016 at 12:00 AM midnight in Scotland
Saturday, May 28, 2016 at 4:00 PM in San Francisco, California
Summary: Three restless friends venture into a redwood grove that leads them on an adventure.
257 lines, was $129, sale price $64.50 SOLD
"The Ones Who Have Your Back"
Story Date: Saturday, May 28, 2016 at 4:04 PM in Mercedes, California
Sunday, May 29, 2016 at 12:04 AM in Edinburgh, Scotland
Summary: Pips finds out about the earthquake in California and strives to get there.
188 lines, was $94, sale price $47 SOLD
"Sung in Hobo Jungles"
Story Date: Friday, July 29, 2016
Summary: Camo Dan oversees some of the new hobos coming in after the Big One.
251 lines, was $126, sale price $63 SOLD
RUTLEDGE (4 poems, was $736, sale price $368)
"The Basic Source of Peace"
Story Date: Monday, May 5, 2014
Summary: Ahzan discovers the Peace Store in Rutledge.
371 lines, was $186, sale price $93
"The State of Perfect Stillness"
Story Date: Monday, June 2, 2014
Summary: Ahzan takes Hasra to the Peace Store.
537 lines, was $269, sale price $134.50
"The Unbearable Clarity of Lost Things"
Story Date: Saturday, April 25, 2015
Summary: Kylewood O'Leary introduces Mahir Suleiman to a creative way of repairing broken furniture.
268 lines, was $134, sale price $67 SOLD
"Clothes Worth Wearing"
Story Date: Morning of Saturday, May 2, 2015
294 lines, was $147, sale price $73.50
Available for posting after "The Unbearable Clarity of Lost Things" has been sponsored and posted.
SHIV (6 poems, was $959, sale price $479.50)
"Always Taking Things Apart"
Story Date: Wednesday, June 3, 2015
Summary: Shiv is still trying to make up with Thriver after they spooked each other.
174 lines, was $87, sale price $43.50 SOLD
"Anything You Want It to Be"
Story Date: Friday, March 4, 2016
Summary: Tolli takes Shiv to the fish market for inspiration.
465 lines, was $233, sale price $116.50
"A Good Imagination and a Pile of Junk"
Story Date: Saturday, April 16, 2016
Summary: Dr. G takes Shiv and Edison to the Recycling Bin for an inventing session.
488 lines, was $244, sale price $122
"The Sort of Things That Make People Stop"
Story Date: Friday, July 1, 2016
Summary: Shiv gets an invitation from Mr. Huxley to make some public art.
142 lines, was $71, sale price $35.50 SOLD
"Public Art as a Team Sport"
Story Date: Tuesday, July 5, 2016
Summary: Shiv takes his crew to make a mural.
428 lines, was $214, sale price $107 SOLD
Available for posting after "The Sort of Things That Make People Stop" has been sponsored and posted.
"Uphold You in Every Step of the Way"
Story Date: Monday, August 1, 2016
Summary: Shiv reaches a major milestone with Tolli and Simon.
220 lines, was $110, sale price $55
SOLACE (3 poems, was $520, sale price $260)
"A Heart Is Not a Box"
Story Date: Fall 2011, Freshman Year through Spring 2015, Senior Year
Corey McQueen goes to college and finds a new family there.
388 lines, was $194, sale price $97
"Inevitable Like the Seasons"
Story Date: Summer 2015
Corey and her family buy a house together.
482 lines, was $241, sale price $120.50
Available for posting after "A Heart Is Not a Box" has been sponsored and posted.
"Something We Create"
Story Date: Fall 2015
Corey and her family launch a new business, the Ace Place.
169 lines, was $85, sale price $42.50
Available for posting after "A Heart Is Not a Box" and "Inevitable Like the Seasons" have been sponsored and posted.