The End Of Our Kickstarter Campaign – But The Start Of Another

Today, April 1, at 2 PM, our Kickstarter campaign will come to a close. Since we didn’t reach the goal, our pledges of support to date will not be activated by Amazon. Again, for those who have made pledges at Kickstarter: Your pledge will be cancelled at 2 PM eastern time today, with no cost to you.

Just this week, we’ve recently received generous pledges from: Becky Shultz, Patricia Sprague, Lynda Berube, Sharon Steelhammer, Barbara Vaughan, Dorinda Nicholson, BankersLab, Joe Hubbard, Sally Winston-Norris, R.L. Fink, and Chris Darbro. We’re very grateful for all that support, as well as the many good wishes we’ve received.

But even these recent pledges have left us far from our completion budget.

Still, we’ve decided that we don’t want to shelve all the work we’ve done. We still feel strongly that the program should reach an audience, and that this niche of American history deserves proper representation. So, we’ve decided to take advantage of an option from Kickstarter, and apply to restart our campaign. Notice we said ‘restart’ – we cannot simply extend the campaign; We have to start it over again, with a different goal than before.

The good news is that we’ve found some outside support and ways to make concessions in our production budget, so the new goal will be smaller, and hopefully easier to attain.

For our Kickstarter backers, a restart means that we need you to offer your pledge again. Remember, your initial pledge will be cancelled today. But if you still feel that Children of Pearl is something you would like to support, all you need to do is repeat the step you took recently. We’re not asking anyone to increase support, just to renew it.

Kickstarter does not provide the individual e-mail addresses of our backers to us until the project is fully funded (we can only mail you through the project’s page). So we won’t have a chance to notify you directly when the new version of our project is online – it should be just a few days. But watch this blog and our Facebook page (here) for the announcement.

And for purposes of building a mailing list, or voicing your ideas for the program and its support, we’d love to hear from you – write us at childrenofpearl@yahoo.com.

Thanks again to all who have taken an interest in Children of Pearl. Please stick with us for the next campaign.