| ANBU Legacy Volume 1: Ebook and Print Editions |
[Jun. 11th, 2015|04:59 pm] |
Dear Readers,
If you don't follow our ANBU Legacy Tumblr, you likely missed the past weeks' furor over the ebook and print edition of ANBU Legacy Volume 1.
Let me sum up:
Several months ago, Ki took a lazy Sunday afternoon and started to put together a compilation of all the Legacy threads. The initial plan was just to create one massive, searchable corpus that could be used to check for continuity (and revise a few errors and goofs that had always bugged us.) However, readers on Tumblr responded enthusiastically to the idea of an ebook, and one of our fantastic readers (make-a-guess) reached out about the possibility of using the file to create a printed edition of the book.
At the time, the full document weighed in at 458,484 words--longer than the very longest of fantasy doorstopper novels. (It is, of course, even longer now.) After some debate, we decided to release it in chronological volumes.
Volume 1 covers events from the Prologues (Mama Come Home) to the end of the Demon Mission (The Way Home). It totals more than 198,000 words (more than 400 pages, in the print edition). Volume 2, currently in progress, will likely begin with Asuma and Genma's backstory in The Short Straw and then pick up with the coup in Hikouto (Take the Heartland) through Team Six's return to Konoha in One of Those Lives (Get Used to It). Volume 3 will begin with the Intel Review arc (Sound the Bells) and continue through threads not yet written.
The ebook edition of Volume 1 is currently in its final stages and will be released by the end of June. This edition, like all electronic Legacy content, will be available free of charge in PDF, MOBI, and EPUB formats to anyone who wishes to download it.
The first limited edition of the print run will be making its way to readers shortly. However, since many readers were not able to sign up in time for the first print run, we are currently polling to determine the level of interest in a second run. This edition will likely cost about $35 USD (to include overseas shipping) and will be available only if at least 15 people sign up to pre-order.
Please visit this Google Form to indicate your interest in an ebook or print edition of ANBU Legacy Volume 1.
Thank you for all the love, support, and encouragement you've given us over the years. We appreciate it more than words can express. And we hope that, whether on this website, in ebook, or in print format, you'll continue to enjoy our stories.
- Ki, DK, Nezu, GM, and Zuul |
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| Readership Survey |
[May. 3rd, 2014|03:44 pm] |
Dear Readers,
As we near ANBU Legacy’s first birthday, we’d like to know more about you. A week ago we posted links to a short Readership Survey on our Tumblr. We’re posting it here, too.
So far we’ve heard from 43 of you. Thank you so much!
We’ve learned we have readers in the US and Canada, in Europe (Belarus, England, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands and Norway), Oceania (Australia and New Zealand), and Asia (Hong Kong, South Korea and Singapore.) We’ve had no responses yet from Africa, South or Central America, or Antarctica, but we’re holding out hope to get all the continents.
We’ve learned that fewer than a quarter of you still read or watch Naruto regularly, that 20% of you didn’t know we have a Guestbook for leaving feedback, and 85% of you have read at least some of our previous collaborative work, Fallen Leaves.
We were pleasantly surprised to learn we have a broad range of ages (from late teens to middle-age), gender identities, and sexual orientations amongst our readers, which matches well with the diversity of our writing staff. And we’ve been delighted to hear from a few who’ve been with us since the late, great Scarlet Spiral days. That means some of you have been reading some of us for eight years or more!
We’re touched and honored by the thoughtful answers we’ve received to the open-ended survey questions. Your feedback bolsters our confidence, buoys our spirits, and gives us ideas for new directions to take. We’ve especially loved hearing that some of our minor characters have fans (wee Naruto wins that popularity contest by a landslide, much to our amusement), and that our little slice-of-life threads are as popular as our action-packed missions.
But 43 is surely not everyone. We want to hear from as many of our readers as possible. So if you feel inclined to give us a birthday gift, take the Readership Survey and tell us what you think of ANBU Legacy.
And if you feel moved after reading a thread, drop us a line in the Guestbook or on our Tumblr.
Nezu, DK, Ki, Zuul and GM |
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