🙏🫂 THANK-YOUS on the Website + Trees Planted 🌲🌳
5 months ago
– Sun, Nov 09, 2025 at 11:08:43 AM
Hey there, Squad!
We're pleased to announce that we're busy working on getting Bloom Squad Volume 1 ready to send to the printer. And that, in the meantime, we've begun fulfilling some of your digital rewards!
First up:
Thank-Yous on the Website! 🙏
Your personalized thank-yous have been added to the Credits page of the Oneshi Press website!
Every person who completed their survey and told us the name they'd like us to thank is now listed, so click below to find your name!
Those thank-yous will also appear in Bloom Squad Volume 1 in print and digital, so be sure to look when the book is ready!
(If you haven't completed your survey yet, you still can! Just click HERE.)
Trees Planted! 🌳🌲
We've also donated to OneTreePlanted.org to have a tree planted for every single one of our backers! We've even got a nifty certificate to show for it.
That's 85 new trees that will be planted all over the world, wherever they're needed most. They'll help to boost ecosystems, prevent erosion, sequester carbon, create clean air, and control temperatures in places that need any or all of the above.
Curious what 85 trees look like? Here's our "artistic" rendering:
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Those trees will be added to what we like to call the Oneshi Global Forest, which now, with your contribution, stands at 1,976 trees planted!
You can donate to plant trees anytime you like using the Oneshi Press Tree-Planting Portal! We don't keep any of the donated funds—the money goes straight to planting trees.
Stay tuned, squad! We'll be sending out more digital rewards soon!
Your friends at Oneshi Press, Jayel & Lynsey 🧔👩🦰
🚨 Last Call for Backer Surveys! 🚨
5 months ago
– Mon, Oct 27, 2025 at 06:21:02 PM
Welcome back to Bloom Squad!
Today, we're sending out our LAST CALL for backer surveys! 🚨
Surveys are a required part of the fulfillment process, where we collect important information that allows us to get your rewards to you. ✅ And the info we need to say a personalized thank you for your support!
We love to make the entire backer experience a good one for our backers, and part of that is making sure show our gratitude. 🙏 So, if you want us to thank you for backing on our website and in the book, this is your last chance to tell us your preferred name!
If you miss this deadline, you can still complete a backer survey later, but we will not be able to personalize your thank-you.
Thanks again for helping us bring this dream into the real world! 💭🌎
Your friends at Oneshi Press, Jayel & Lynsey 🧔👩🦰
Here's Another Campaign We Love…
The inaugural issue of BAD FUTURE, a new sci-fi cyberpunk anthology collecting visions of finding hope in a dark future. Four stories and fifty plus pages of comics showcasing a variety of styles, but all taking a hard look at our dystopian future and asking how we can survive, find hope, and hold on to our humanity.
You're Amazing! 74% of Surveys Complete!
6 months ago
– Wed, Oct 15, 2025 at 04:53:14 PM
Well, Squad, you're impressing us!
So far, 74% of you have completed your backer surveys! That's awesome! Give yourselves a big high-five! ✋
To say thanks, here's a sneak peek at some of the newly colored pages for Bloom Squad! 👀
If You Haven't Completed Your Survey Yet...
We'll need the remaining 26% of you to complete your surveys by Monday, October 27, so we'll be able to fulfill 100% of your digital rewards as soon as possible. 📆
A personalized link to your very own survey has already been sent to the email address you use to log in to Kickstarter. 📩
But, if for any reason you don't get that email, you can click the link below to find it!
Thanks so much for being a part of BLOOM SQUAD! 🌸 We'll be back in touch soon with more news.
Thanks for your support!
Your friends at Oneshi Press, Jayel & Lynsey 🧔👩🦰
Here's Another Campaign We Love…
The Elephant Eater Comics Annual Dispatch is an outgrowth of our very dear friend, award-winning comics artist and university professor Ryan Claytor's interest in sharing artistic process and demystifying making.
It features a variety of artwork he's produced over the past year, with a focus on process information detailing how each piece came to be. And it's going to be gorgeous!
Attention: Bloom Squad Surveys Incoming!
6 months ago
– Thu, Oct 02, 2025 at 12:41:18 PM
Hello again, Bloom Squad!
Keep an eye—or both eyes, when you can spare them—on your email inbox…because we just sent out backer surveys!
📩 Surveys Are Coming! 📩
We partner with BackerKit, a third party fulfillment service, to send out surveys to all of our backers. They'll be emailing every single backer of Bloom Squad within the next 48 hours with a backer survey...and we need all of our backers to complete them!
❓ What The Heck's a Backer Survey? ❓
This is not a feedback form where you get to tell us what a great job we did (or didn't do). It's the absolutely essential tool we use to collect the information we need to fulfill your rewards! 🔨
That includes: your up-to-date contact information, preferred mailing address, final reward choices, and any other vital info we need to send you your goodies. 📦
Plus, it's where you tell us what name you'd like us to say "thanks" to in the back of Bloom Squad! 🌸
🎁 We want to make sure every last one of you gets your well-earned rewards!
So here’s the deal:
- 📅 Surveys are going out over the next 48 hours.
- ⏰ Some of you will get yours sooner than others.
- 📨 They will come from BackerKit, a third-party service we use to facilitate backer surveys.
- 🔍 Check your inbox, promotions tab, and spam folder.
- ❓If you don’t receive a survey by next Monday—please tell us!
- 📩 Your email message will contain a personalized link to your very own survey. But, if for any reason you don't get that email, you can click the link below to find it! 👇
And—bonus—we've got a handy add-ons store on BackerKit, so you can grab any extra rewards you like on your way out! 🛒
📅 We need all surveys completed by Monday, October 27! 📅
That way, we can make sure your name gets in the thank-you section of Bloom Squad, Volume 1 when we print it!
Thanks for your support!
Your friends at Oneshi Press, Jayel & Lynsey 🧔👩🦰
Here's Another Campaign We Love…
CITADEL is s a simple story about two kids from opposite sides of a conflict who are both running from something, and they end up running into each other and unlocking a shared power not seen in the world in 200 years. Now the two teens are reluctantly thrust into a globe-trotting adventure to awaken the dormant Citadels and change the course of the world.
WE DID IT! What Happens Next?
7 months ago
– Fri, Sep 12, 2025 at 05:10:43 PM
WOW, Squad!
We did it! And by "we," of course, we mean all of YOU amazing backers!
We can't thank you enough for your support of this amazing project, and we can't wait to get all of your fabulous rewards out to you!
But there are a few steps along the road between the campaign ending and you reading your beautiful copy of Bloom Squad, Volume 1!
So here's your handy guide to…
…What Happens Next! 🌸
The below schedule is not set in stone, since we can never be certain of how long printing, shipping, etc. will take. But here's our best guess at what you can expect in the coming weeks and months!
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9/12 - 9/21 - Kickstarter has already credit cards immediately upon the end of the campaign. If there's a problem with the card you have on file, you'll be notified and can update your info! 💳
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9/22 - 9/28 - The campaign funds will land in Oneshi Press's account sometime this week. 💰
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9/29 - 10/13 - As soon as the funds from Kickstarter arrive in our account, we'll do a few things:
1) Send out backer surveys! You'll have 2 weeks to complete them so we can finalize item counts and get all the info we need to send out your rewards! 📩
2) Start preparing digital rewards. 🎁
3) Plant your trees! 🌳
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10/13 - 11/15 - Once surveys are in, we'll place orders with our manufacturers, then wait for everything to come to us. During this time, we'll also send out digital rewards! 📨
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11/16 - 12/15 - Fulfillment time! We'll pack and ship orders directly from Oneshi Press HQ. 📦
- 12/16 - 12/31 - US shipping window. 📫
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12/15 - 1/15/2026 - International shipping window. 📮
We'll stay in touch about changes to this schedule, so you'll know what's happening at every stage of the process! 🦸♂️🦸♀️
Stay tuned for updates here!
And thank you once again for backing Bloom Squad Volume 1! We couldn't put this awesome story into the world—and into your hands—without you! 🙏
—Your friends at Oneshi Press, Jayel & Lynsey 🧔👩🦰
