We've decided to just go ahead and reopen the store... please note, we don't know when we will be reordering certain books (such as the Spare Parts and You Say it First books) so if you thought about getting it, you might not get another chance for a long time.
We're raffling off the original art to this month's wallpapers! For each $10 you give, you get an entry for that week's drawing (so if you give $10, you get one ticket in the raffle, $20 gets you two- you get the drill). If you want your monthly payment to Namirdeiter.net to count in the raffle, make sure to make it by the Thursday of that week, as we will have the drawing on Friday and mail it out on Saturday (first class within the US, registered airmail outside of the US).
Here's how the weeks work out- there will not be a raffle for the first week of the month, but there will be for every week after (well, if we do this again... we're still up in the air and this whole raffle thing is still in the experimental stages). Remember, you only have to donate once to be in the raffle all month long, but the longer you wait, the less chances you will have at each different piece of art (so if you donate only in time for ND art, you only have one chance at one piece of art, but if you donated by the 12th, you have one chance at all three pieces of art)!
Week Two (have your payment in by 04/19) You Say it First
Week Three (have your payment in by 04/26)Namir Deiter
The selection will be done "live" on our ND Chat podcast (oh, by the way, we're back to doing our weekly podcasts, which are available only for namirdeiter.net members). They're black & white, inked on Bristol paper, with no pencil lines. I don't have the exact measurements of them off hand, but they are smaller than a eight and a half by eleven piece of paper. I made sure all of this month's wallpaper images were extra detailed for this month in celebration of this new raffle system (one of the reasons they took so long to make!) and depending on how this goes, this might just become a regular thing!
So, what does your ten bucks a month get you? Well, you get access to 400 sketch updates, several years worth of commentary (and enjoy that while you can, we may be making a few changes to how much access new donators get to older content), 200 pages of exclusive comics (including two namirdeiter.net exclusive series!), plus the semi- interactive NDU Bonus Library- home to the monthly 12 page bonus stories (with one being added every month), plus lots more! As always, your membership helps keep all our comics up and running and our sites ad-free. This month we have another chapter of the Tales of Grover Hills for this month's main page comic, and chapter four of Elemental Story for our bonus book (We will eventually have a way for you to purchase previous titles, but more on that later).
Last month's bonus book, Sea Dreams Book 2, is now done being written, I'm very happy to say. I am very happy with it, despite previous writing issues. Sea Dreams Book 2 should be available to everyone who donated last month by the end of the month.
Also... all $50 donators- your original bonus book artwork and mini-books have been shipped, staples and all. Thank you for your patience!
Which one will you be entered in?
Spare Parts - if you donate between April 1 and 12.
You Say it First- if you donate between April 13 and 19th.
Namir Deiter - if you donate between April 20 and 26th.
The selection will be done "live" on our ND Chat podcast. They're black & white, inked on bristol paper, with no pencil lines.
Secondly, as many of you have let us know, Namir Deiter was mentioned in Girl Genius. About two weeks ago. We saw it when it aired. We were mightly impressed - I'm a huge fan of all of their work, and we're in very good company there. We just haven't had a chance to update the news much lately. We got a kick out of it and hope that you did to. If you don't read Girl Genius (and What's New with Phil and Dixie and Buck Godot: Zap Gun for Hire) you should.
Silent Emotion, our bonus book for February, is up. If you donated last month, you can read it at our bonus library. It's twelve pages and features characters from all three of our comics. Isabel did an amazing job on it!March's bonus book will be Sea Dreams II, the sequel to last August's book. If you donated then, it's available on-line. If you didn't, we'll be making it available - details will be out soon.
Also, we now have the books for regular donors in the library now, going back to February 2005, when NamirDeiter.net started. If you forgot your password or don't have access, e-mail me.
There was also a small namirdeiter.net bonus book library update. It's not fully functional yet, so those of you with access please keep an eye on that 'last updated' tag under the library's link on the main page and head to the 'Upcoming titles' for more detailed information.