Hey gang, I know it's been a while, but something kinda happened that shattered my confidence in this and I spent a few months reeling from it.

Here's a quick sum up, I'll provide links when I can.
Also, some of you may already know this if you are a member of Hp_Fringeart

Basically one HP fan did illustrations for every chapter in the first book. They were phenomenal and you need to see them (again I'll get links when I have more time, because yeah if you've not seen this HOLY COW! It's awesome!).

Anyway, right he collected these illustrations into a very nice hard cover book and sent it to JKR.

She sent it back.
Or rather her agents did. And from the note he got, there's no indication she ever even saw it. It was something like blah blah blah very busy blah blah blah no room blah blha blah we thought you'd want your gift back.


You can maybe kinda see where this might cause me some pause, yes? ;
Here someone did basically what we are doing and JKR didn't, as far as I can tell, even see it let alone accept it.

Now, yes I realize she gets lots of fan mail and probably does get lots of gifts, so I'm not trying to be bitter here, BUT I'm putting a lot of work into this, you guys are putting a lot of work into this. Having the book mailed back to me without JKR even seeing it would be . . . . well I'd be crushed. Actually crushed probably doesn't even cover it.

Plus I'd feel like I cheated you guys because you gave money to this with a specific end result in mind and I can no longer say that end result will happen (see this is why god prevented me from taking up money YAY)



SO WHAT IM DOING ABOUT IT!
Currently, I'm trying to contact Mellissa and just see if there's maybe a better place to send it or if perhaps his attempt was viewed as a commercial endeavor or if the whole Lexicon thing soured her to fandom books. Who knows.

Once I either hear from her or give up trying to contact her, I'll open this up to discussions on what we want to do based on the info I've gathered.

For right now, because as I said, I can't promise the end result y'all were willing to pay for, I'm further putting on held taking up money until I get this sorted out (One solution, should it be determined that she will not accept or keep a book as been to create a website and send the link to her in a letter).

But like I said I want to try and contact Mellissa (of TLC) first and hopefully find a way to still make this work as planned.


So yeah, that's a bit disappointing for me, but that's where things stand.
I will keep you guys updated as I learn things.

In case anyone wondered.

Yes I'm dead.
No wait, not really.

Basically my life is still in serious flux from the moving and the wedding such that I do not wish to try and take up money right now.

I'm shooting for, at latest Starting that in August.

I am trying to get all the art submissions sorted and organized and ready to go, so that as soon as I do start getting money I can send them to be fomatted and bound and such.

So I will hopefully start going through that asap, and contacting people if I find gaps.

So that's where things stand.

I'm so sorry RL came up and attacke,d but I jsut wanted to assure everyone yes I'm still going forward with this, no it is not abandoned, I just you know, had a real life attack ;

Hello there!

First off, thank you all so much for your understanding about my need to push back on this project so I could concentrate on my wedding.

I'm now happily married (yay) and moving into a new place.

Currently, we do not have the internet set up at home, so I feel like formally restarting the art submissions and starting the art submissions would be premature as I'd have no way to get to them (work blocks e-mails, of course and even then, can't DL and save here!) and they'd just build up.

But, as soon as I'm connected at home again I will let everyone know, re-check what art I still need, and get going on collecting payments and getting this art printed and bound!

Also, I'll try to answer notes and such in the next day or so, unless they are art submissions (again, I just don't have anywhere to save 'em to at this time)

Yay!

-Ani, ye newly married project coordinator.

If you've sent me an e-mail in the past two weeks you probably already know this, but here goes.

I'm behind.
I don't see my catching up in the next week.

I hate to do this but after looking at what all I need to do to make sure my wedding is ready by March 14th, I need to hold off on the Project until after my wedding.


At this point, I can't handle both because they are both huge a time consuming and errors make things go really wrong. At obviously, my wedding kinda takes priority.


I am not cancelling the project or anything, but I need to push things back because right now I know I could not handle money intake. There's no way. Especially now, because I'm going to try and sell of some art to help fund the wedding, I don't think I'm up to handling a wedding, money from the HP_Art_Project, and money + shipping for art.

Something would go horribly wrong.

So yeah.

I really think holding off on the next Art Project stage until after the wedding will save my sanity.

On the other hand <Lj user="tudorpot"> and those who may help lay pages out. I will have a finalized page count and page breakdown to you so you can workout how what needs to go where. That I am working on as I can. Let me know if you need any other information.

Thank you so much for understanding and I promise after March 14th this will get my undivided attention again ^__^



-Ani

PS: if you could pass the word on ^^

Here's the latest update:

I've should have gotten through all the e-mails I've been sent up to 7:00 am on 1/9/2009.

Also, with the exception of some thank you notes and responses along those lines, I should have responded to everything (and it's not that I don't appreciate the thanks yous and well wishes, I just don't always have time to respond to them).

If you sent me an e-mail and wanted a response/confirmation and still don’t have one from me, you probably need to resend it because I somehow missed it.

I've also started contacting pinch hitters to fill in gaps.

I still need to make sure the spreadsheet of finished art matches the actual art that I have and I want to double check that all the files are correct, working, and properly labeled.

I'll also try and update the gallery next week sometime. The hard part of that is simply labeling everything ;;

That will come only after I finally start collecting money Arghh.
Sorry you guys are more eager to send me money than I am to collect. Of course I need to because I've not yet won any lotteries (will no, according to my psm box I win one the UK daily *L*)

It's just the part of the project I'm the most scared of botching. I swear i will stop dragging my feet now that I pretty much know who is sending my artwork and who isn't.