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The Middle Age: Volumes 1-3 - Hardcover Collections

Created by Steve Conley

The story of a knight in love with a dragon and the cursed sword which hates him. Nominated for 9 Eisner, Ringo, and NCS awards!

Latest Updates from Our Project:

Nearly everything has shipped!
12 months ago – Thu, Apr 03, 2025 at 05:12:57 PM

With today’s batch of orders, all but four orders have shipped.

The remaining four orders include multiple signed and sketched bookplates and I ran out of blank bookplates. I had just enough bookplates to start but I wasn’t happy with the drawing on a few of them and now I need to redraw them. The bookplate manufacturer told me that the new blanks are on their way. I really want each sketch to be great.

Apologies to Heath, Matthias, Steven, and Rob. If your name is not one of those, you should have received your tracking number or your loot by now! I expect the last four orders to ship next week after I draw suitably awesome sketches. :)

Thanks to everyone who let me know their books arrived. 

The responses have been so amazing! Here’s a very kind comment from BlueSky…

Thank you all again for your amazing patience and support. It really does mean the world to me!

And extra thanks to the new supporters on Patreon too. <3 

I hope you love the books.

— Steve 

Art prints arrived and packages going out the door!
about 1 year ago – Tue, Jan 21, 2025 at 12:55:54 PM

The replacement art prints arrived last week and they look fantastic! I'm so happy with the job the printer did! I think you're going to love them!

Now that I have the art prints, shipments are continuing! With ~10 going out each day, I expect everything to be shipped in the next three-four weeks.

I have been called to jury duty starting tomorrow so it will slow me down during the day, but I'll be preparing packages to mail out in the evenings.

Thank you again for your amazing support and patience! <3 

-- Steve

Happy New Year! Shipping, Art Print, and Canada updates!
about 1 year ago – Tue, Jan 07, 2025 at 02:42:43 PM

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Shipping continues!
over 1 year ago – Mon, Dec 09, 2024 at 12:31:42 PM

More packages are going to the post office each day!

There is a delay with some of the packages. Some of the bonus art prints arrived messed up - either in transit or by the printer. I'm waiting on the reprints to arrive and will resume packing those up when they do!

But everything else continues to go out in batches! Keep an eye out for an email with a tracking number and don't hesitate to reach out with any questions!

Thanks again!

-- Steve

Books arriving tomorrow!
over 1 year ago – Fri, Nov 01, 2024 at 02:06:29 PM

I received a tracking number for the BIG shipment of books and it looks like they're on track to arrive here tomorrow! The books are printed in the U.S. and I suspect the storms which rocked the southeast may have played a part in the delays.

I'm standing ready with packing materials! As soon as the shipment arrives, I have to go through each of the boxes and examine the books in case I need to report any damages to the printer. Then the fun begins!

Monday, I'll begin shipping out orders!

Thanks to all of you who responded so kindly to the digital PDF editions! 

A quick wrapup of other news from the past month...

  • Gamehole Con in Madison, Wisconsin, was amazing and the D&D crowd really responded to The Middle Age! We sold out of The Middle Age Volume 1 and the softcover Chapter One book sold out as well!
  • Hurricane Milton rolled over my town but we prepared and were very lucky. We lost a lot of sleep, and quite a bit of water got in but nothing irreplaceable was damaged - and I was thankful the big shipment of books hadn't arrived in the days before the storm while I was stacking sandbags!
  • With shipping under way and the finishing touches being put on Nibblemancy, I'm already preparing my next Kickstarter and working up something special for my Patreon supporters.

I can't wait for you to get your books!

-- Steve