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Gardener Pre-Order Store

Created by Matt Emmons

A space western about self acceptance and survival on a failed colony planet. Deluxe hardcover edition.

Latest Updates from Our Project:

The Winter King (New Campaign) Ending Soon!
about 1 month ago – Sun, Feb 18, 2024 at 02:16:12 PM

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The Council of Frogs is Live!
over 1 year ago – Wed, Oct 12, 2022 at 02:10:18 AM

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Shipping! AKA the Last Update
about 2 years ago – Fri, Feb 18, 2022 at 01:16:31 AM

Now this is the update we've all been waiting for: Physical copies of Gardener are out!  The fulfillment company is currently about halfway through shipping everything now. Keep an eye on your email for tracking as they should all be going out within the next two weeks. For international backers, you may have noticed tracking has not had an update since the initial "label created" stage, which is due to the international freight carrier having a bit of a bottleneck at the moment. Everything goes out in bulk which helps keep the costs down, but it does mean the process can be a little lengthy at times.

Lastly, I wanted thank you all again as always for the support, and for your patience. This book could not have happened without your help, and you all gave it the chance to really be a beautiful final piece. I'm so proud of this book, both what I put into it and the print quality, and hope you are too! Feel free to tag me when you get your copy, one of the most exciting parts of this process is seeing when people have the book in hand. 

I'll leave this off with a very rare picture of me holding said book in my own hands.

- Matt

Shipping Soon!
about 2 years ago – Sat, Jan 29, 2022 at 03:09:52 AM

Hey everyone! 

Finally have (most) of the news people have been waiting for - the physical books are through US customs and awaiting a freight truck to deliver them to the fulfillment company, and then shipping will start as soon as they land. That process may take another two weeks or so, but in the meantime make sure your mailing addresses and payment info are correct in your BackerKit links as those will be locking and being charged now that everything's in motion.

I'm so excited for you to hold this book in your hands, and as always thank you for the patience. I'll more than likely send another update once the shipping process has begun or if there's any other news worth mentioning. We're in the home stretch now!


- Matt

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GARDENER Printing/Shipping Schedule Update
over 2 years ago – Mon, Dec 06, 2021 at 09:24:36 PM

Hi Everyone,

I have had very little news on Gardener lately but wanted to provide a new update with what I do know. The book is still at the printers, as they have been having severe delays. I have been notified that the books should be printing now and are on schedule to be heading to US for distribution by December 20th. That unfortunately means the books will not be in your hands until early 2022. I had of course wanted to get these shipping by late September, but this part of the process is entirely out of my hands. I apologize for the delays but this seems to be a very far reaching issue, and becomes more of a waiting game than other years.

Thank you all for your continued patience with this, I promise the book quality will be excellent - I did get a cover sample so I have the photo to prove it!

I also thought I'd include a photo of the shirt print (please excuse the middling photo, I'm not a great photographer), which have been done for a while but the print looks so great it's worth sharing before they go out.

- Matt