Half-Price Sale in Polychrome Heroics
This week, the poetry of Polychrome Heroics is on sale for half price from Monday, March 15 through Sunday, March 21. This series is superhero fantasy. It features themes of heroism, coming of age, diversity, identity kink, family of choice, friendship, and cultural engineering. Sale prices range from $5 to $238.50, so hopefully there will be something for everyone.
Prices on open epics are locked at the time of opening; however, if anyone wants to donate to open epics and buy poetry, spending $100 will get you the quarter-price rate on the new poems, regardless of the rate on the open epic(s) you support. There are three open epics at present, so I'd rather not start another. "The Hobbomak" belongs to the Bear Tunnels. It needs $147 to be complete. "A Celebration and a Consolation" belongs to Polychrome Heroics. It needs $113 to be complete.
We are repeating the special discount for purchases of $100 or more, in which you get poetry at 25% of its original price instead of 50%. (Note that this increases the amount of poetry you get, rather than reducing the amount of money spent; the point is to get this stuff off of my desk. Yes, I can afford it.) That size of donation also makes you a k-fan which comes with some other perks, like a year-end collection of a poetic series. If several folks want to bundle their orders to make the $100 threshold and have one person send it all, that's okay; you'll get the discount and I'll list all your names as donors, but you'll have to decide amongst you who gets the k-fan credit. If you host a pool, please close it the day before the sale closes, so you have time to collect funds and turn them in on time.
Some of the poems are in sequence of related action, so in places there are prerequisites before a poem can be published. They can be sponsored at any time, just might have to wait for publication until something else gets posted first. Those are marked accordingly. I have also made lists of poems which unlock sequels, and poems which have prerequisites.
Linkback perk: The following poems have verses left to reveal. Boost the signal for this half-price sale and tell me which poem you want to extend.
"The Arc of the Mental Universe"
"Everything That Blooms"
"In the Shade of the Mighty Oak"
"Let the Children Lead Us"
"Autumn's Palette"
"Delight in Another"
"A Sense of Weather Changes"
About characters and storylines: The storylines feature multiple characters, so if you want poems about ONE specific character, look closely. The thumbnail descriptions here give some indication who features in each poem. The storyline pages are adding precise, complete information about which characters appear in each poem. If you need more than what's already visible, you can ask me.
About timing: If you want maximum choice, shop early. We usually send a batch of things to my parents near the end of a sale, and those poems will be posted as I have time.
About pools: Yes, you can combine your funds with other prompters to get the quarter-price rate. Yes, you can combine your funds with other prompters to buy a bigger poem. Yes, you can offer to match donations by other people. However, the wordsmith is not also a math whiz! After several attempts to find a way that I can work with pools and matches, I have concluded that this is over my head. (I did figure out how to avoid generating fractional pennies, though: all initial prices are now whole dollars, which means they cut evenly into halves and quarters.) So if you want to host a pool or a match, make a post for that in your blog or other venue, then comment here with what you're doing and include a link to wherever the discussion will be. You figure out the poems, you collect the funds, and when stuff is fully funded, you send me the money and the list of what it's for. Then I'll post the goodies. Please close the pool in time to collect donations by the end of the sale, so I can start posting pool poems no later than the day after the sale.
Before placing your order, please check this sale page to see what is still unsold! I will try to update the page as things sell, and it's likely to be the case that some poems will be marked SOLD before appearing in posts. People often buy things in batches, which means that selling gets ahead of posting. Also sometimes people ask for the same thing at the same time, so that not all overlaps are preventable. If you have alternate instructions in case you request something that has just sold, please include that in your message; otherwise I'll email you back and ask what you want to do.
Currently available are the following poems. Some are in series chronological order, and others are just kind of stuck wherever, because sequencing Polychrome Heroics is like trying to sequence a dozen different comic book titles from the same publisher. See the thread page for Shiv.
Poems that unlock sequels: "The Contrast of Light and Dark"
Poems that have prerequisites: "However You Think You Should Be"
FOR SALE
11 poems, $1905 ÷ 2 = $952.50
prices from $5 to $238.50
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KRAKEN (2 poems, was $84, sale price $42)
"A Different Thing All Together"
Story Date: Friday, December 2, 2016
Summary: Genna looks into the All Together school system for special needs.
103 lines, was $52, sale price $26 SOLD
"Type Integrity"
Summary: Supervillains understand the importance of being yourself.
63 lines, was $32, sale price $16 SOLD
MERCEDES (3 poems, was $854, sale price $427)
"The Responsibility to Care"
Story Date: Monday, July 6, 2015
Summary: Molly and Dave deal with a new paramedic intern whose wealthy background gets in the way of meshing with the team when they first meet.
221 lines, was $111, sale price $55.50
"Better Than Their Neighbors Think"
Story Date: Sunday, March 6, 2016
Summary: Fred helps shore up Jules and Bennett's reputation.
532 lines, was $266, sale price $133 SOLD
"Make It Worth Their While"
Story Date: Tuesday, March 8, 2016
Summary: Blainn meets Junket, which has its ups and downs.
953 lines, was $477, sale price $238.50
RUTLEDGE (4 poems, was $735, sale price $367.50)
"Why People Hold onto Memories"
Story Date: Tuesday, July 1, 2014
Oscar and Labib deal with an unpleasant prelude to the Fourth of July.
453 lines, was $227, sale price $113.50
"To a Syrian in Vermont"
Maples symbolize hope.
16 lines, was $10, sale price $5 SOLD
"Essential to Well-Ordered Living"
Story Date: Sunday, October 5, 2014
Gideon takes Ibrahim and sons to a thrift store for winter clothes.
568 lines, was $284, sale price $142
"Before the Nature Wants"
Story Date: Thursday, October 9, 2014
Liyan talks with other Syrian women, and discovers that Janna is unhappy in her marriage.
427 lines, was $214, sale price $107
SHIV (2 poems, was $232, sale price $116)
"The Contrast of Light and Dark"
Story Date: Sunday, March 27, 2016
Summary: Shiv meets Rob Ross and they enjoy an impromptu painting session.
599 lines, was $300, sale price $150 SOLD
"However You Think You Should Be"
Story Date: Friday, May 20, 2016
Summary: Shiv and Rob Ross share a video call about painting and personal choices.
328 lines, was $164, sale price $82 SOLD
Available for posting after "The Contrast of Light and Dark" has been sponsored and published.