New Lone Wolf Books from Megara Entertainment

[adarke]

From Megara Entertainment's Way of the Tiger re-issue Facebook page, the publisher has posted this:

I am announcing (for the moment, only to you Way of the Tiger fans), that Megara will publish a new line of gamebooks in the near future (both in French and English versions), a spinoff of the Lone Wolf series with another Kai initiate. Not written by Joe Dever - written by a long-time Lone Wolf fan, however the story and text will be approved and revised by Joe Dever. Illustrations will be by Gary Chalk.

Megara is behind the collector's edition re-issues of the Way of the Tiger, Fabled Lands, and Bloodsword gamebooks. The Way of the Tiger re-issues are beautiful.

I'm pretty excited for this!

[adarke]

Looks like Megara is doing a crowdfunding experiment for this Lone Wolf book. See here: megara-entertainment.com/crowdfunding/?ignition_product=help-megara-fund-a-new-lone-wolf-spin-off-autumn-snow-1-both-in-english-and-french

Behold the adventures of a new Kai Initiate...

For the past seven years, you have been training and studying at the Kai Monastery under the tutelage of your Kai Masters. You have demons­trated great potential and already master five of the ten elementary Kai Disciplines, granting you the rank of Kai Initiate. Your parents gave you the name Kania, but today, you are better known by your Kai name, Autumn Snow.

Recently, a missive reached the King of Sommer­lund, sent by the fishermen of Misty Bay. This little village is located on Kirlu Island, the largest land mass of the Kirlundin archipelago, just south of Silvershore, the island’s main town. The village’s inhabitants were requesting the army’s assistance, claiming they had seen Darkland creatures, namely Giaks, wandering in the island’s interior. Initially, this request was met with skepticism, but when the fishermen of Misty Bay stopped supplying merchant ships with red salmon, a highly sought-after local delicacy, the King finally agreed to send an inspector to the island. The New Kai Order was swiftly informed of the situation.

When these troubling rumours of enemies within Sommerlund reached the Grand Master’s ears, he promptly designated a trustworthy investigator. It so happens that your main instructor, Kai Master Silver Flame, was tasked with this mission. As his most gifted student, you have been chosen to accompany him to Silvershore. According to your master, this low-risk mission will be beneficial to the advancement of your training, which has been showing signs of stagnation.

“I think this assignment will do you good, Autumn Snow. If you wish to attain the rank of Aspirant, you will need to push yourself past your current limitations.”

Despite the implied criticism, you are proud to have been chosen for this mission. A Kai student is not granted many opportunities to leave the Monastery during her formative years. Conse­quently, you have prepared yourself well, even training twice as hard during practice sessions lest your master lose confidence in you and choose someone else.

At last, the time has come to leave. Riding a pair of thoroughbreds, Silver Flame and yourself begin the trip to Holmgard, the capital of Sommerlund, where a merchant ship is waiting to take you on board and ferry you to Kirlu. “Did you bring all your equipment?” asks your master. You nod your head; you are ready.

Your first real mission as a Kai is about to begin!

Campaign rules summary

You can donate any amount (only Paypal is accepted) to help finance the costs to produce this gamebook in PDF and print, both in English and French.

Watch out, any money donated is immediately withdrawn from your Paypal account as when you are ordering a book on our Megara webstore.

There should be no refund since (if you read below the 'What if we don't reach the target' section) we are going to print and deliver the book anyway even if we don't meet the exact target.

If you donate less than 29 euros, you will only get the illustrated PDF in your language once it's done.

If you donate 29 euros, you will get the PDF + (in your language) the hardback black & white version of the book (with a nice paper quality), worldwide shipping included. We're doing only a nice black & white book because we are working with Gary Chalk and a lot of his fans love his black & white style. The cover will be in colour though, of course. No softcover edition is planned, we want a durable book like the Lone Wolf Collector's edition by Mantikore.

If you donate more than 29 euros, we will add to your hardback book, in your parcel, a surprise gift chosen by Megara Entertainment (we'll make sure it's something you don't already have).

Campaign explanation

Hello and welcome to the first in-house crowdfunding project by Megara Entertainment. Megara has a deal with Joe Dever, Gary Chalk and long-time Lone Wolf fan Martin Charbonneau (aka 'The Oiseau') to publish Autumn Snow 1 in English and French, a new spin-off series in the Lone Wolf universe. I am Mikaël Louys, Megara founder, and I decided to create this in-house campaign in order to be able to fund and produce more quickly this book than if we had used our traditional Kickstarter account.

The 8,000 euros we are asking for represent the amount we have to reach for the project to be launched and the books printed. It's not the cost of printing since Megara now uses an in-house print on demand system. It's simply all the other costs associated to the project, and Megara cannot at that time face those costs alone. Thus, we are asking the Lone Wolf fans for help. We added all these costs together and the total was 8,000 euros. If thanks to this campaign we reach that goal, we will be able to publish this book.

What we will do with your 8,000 euros if we reach that goal:

Commission art. We're asking the great Gary Chalk to do the illustrations for the Autumn Snow 1 book. He agreed to illustrate the book and if the campaign is successful, we will be able to have:
x1 Full Colour cover
x19 Black/White full page illustrations
x10 Black/White page fillers
x10 Bl/W Introduction fillers(Objects)
x1Bl/W Filler for Action Chart
Pay an advance royalty to Joe Dever because Lone Wolf is his series and he will revise (if necessary) and approve the book.
Pay an advance royalty to Martin Charbonneau, the Autumn Snow author.
Pay the Autumn Snow editing and playtesting by our Editor in Chief Richard Hetley from Megara LLC
As for the layout, I'll do it myself for free. I am also the guy printing and shipping your books. As soon as we fund the 8k of the campaign, I will transfer the funds to Gary, Joe, Richard and Martin and everyone will get to work immediately. If we would have used Kickstarter we would have waited one month to receive the funds, but here with our in-house system it's immediate so at any time when we complete the 8k (for instance if it happens before the end of the campaign) I'll transfer the funds to our team members for their respective work. Without having to pay a 10% commission to Kickstarter or Amazon Payments

What if we fail to reach our goal:

If we fail to reach our goal, don't worry, we will still publish the book but maybe will less illustrations or a lower general quality than the one we aim for with the 8k.

Delivery timeframe

I forgot to add. Autumn Snow 1 has been written already in English, and won't take long to be converted to French as well. So I expect to get the book finished early next year, with your help, of course. Many thanks in advance if you help that project to come true.

For Sommerlund and the Kai! (and thank you, Joe, to have accepted that Megara will be publishing this exciting new saga!)

Mikaël Louys

Founder

Megara Entertainment

[Black Cat]

You'll find some answers in this thread: projectaon.proboards.com/thread/2486/autumn-snow