It’s here.     Though Kickstarter said that it would take 2-3 business days to approve my project,  by 6:30 pm yesterday, it was up and running.   It only took them 7 hours to approve it.

The Kickstarter Project is up and running! Woohoo!

That might have been the longest 7 hours of the week – constantly hitting refresh on my email.

Check out the project here and consider pre-ordering your first-edition copy by making a pledge!

Still, now the real work begins.   The clock is ticking.  Is there enough demand/excitement/enthusiasm to get Pomodoro Penguin into print?   I sure hope so!   It has been a wild ride to get to this point of the journey, so why stop here?

So far, Pomodoro has 3 backers – at about 8% of the way to the goal.   The idea of an all-or-nothing campaign is a little scary, but it also is very exciting.

There are a few things that I see differently this time that I didn’t see the last time I ran a project.  First, I am running the project for only 30 days instead of 61.   Hopefully this will  help with the project “buzz” and eliminate the mid-project lull.

I also am finding that the Kickstarter App is my new best friend.  I don’t have to keep running to the project page refresh and see if I got more pledges.  Nope, I get push notifications sent right to my iPhone.    How cool was it to wake up this morning to see that Pomodoro had a new backer.

Well, no rest for the weary today.   I need to write a backer blog, share the project in a few more places, set up tomorrow’s “Worksheet Wednesday,”  start drafting out the plot for the next book (about the Library Lemur), and get to work on updating the illustrations for book 1 so they are ready for print.