Happy Valentine’s day/Destiel wedding, folks!

As we mentioned here, we ran into a snag with our original store. After refunding everyone and doing some serious research, we’re back better than ever with a pop-up shop for extended pre-orders of To Hell + Back: A Destiel Anthology. For the next two weeks ONLY, from now until midnight on February 28th, 2021, at 11:59 pm PST, you have one last chance to pre-order your very own copy of the book via this link! We are currently on track to ship all orders, from both our Indiegogo fundraiser and this pop-up shop, in April 2021.

Please note that while both the PDF and the hard copy of the anthology are available for sale during this limited window, we will not be offering any merch; to keep things very simple, this is a book-only event. We are sorry for any disappointment this may cause!

If you notice the prices seem higher than on our Indiegogo, don’t panic! We are operating in Canadian dollars and not USD this time, for easy banking purposes. (We have already done a test transaction and have slightly edited our copy to ensure we remain online :P).

If you previously purchased a PDF copy from our Indiegogo campaign and would now like to upgrade to a hard copy, please email us at [email protected] with your IGG order number, and we will send you your very own discount code for $10.00 off your book. You will still receive your PDF copy as well, because all orders for a physical copy of the anthology also include a free PDF version!

Finally, we would like to remind everyone that this is truly your last chance to get your hands on To Hell + Back—after this pop-up shop is closed, it will never again be available for purchase, so if you missed out the first time, please hurry and get your copy today!

Earlier today, we posted a brief update so please do see part one if you haven’t already!

Now for the big news: we’re going to eat our own words and take the bold step of doing something we were certain we weren’t going to do once our Indiegogo fundraiser finished. That’s right...we’re planning to open up a simple pop-up web store for two weeks only, from February 1 through February 14th, so that anyone who missed out on the first round of fundraising can get a second chance to preorder either a hard copy of To Hell + Back: A Destiel Anthology, or the digital format. 

After the sheer pandemonium that ensued in the wake of episode 15x18 airing on November 5th, which brought an enormous influx of SPN fans both old and new into online spaces to discuss canon Destiel (we still can’t believe we get to write those words either), we noticed a significant increase in our followers here on Tumblr, as well as a general resurgence of fandom activity, and fielded several more inquiries about whether we would ever make this book available for purchase again. With this in mind, we discussed in-depth the possibility of doing a pop-up online store despite our previous resistance to the idea, and agreed that it was feasible if it was handled carefully and responsibly. 

“But wait,” we hear you saying. “You guys said you didn’t want to do that because it’s harder to be transparent about what money is coming in and where it’s going, and transparency is kind of your whole thing!” 

And to that we reply: you are absolutely correct, and we want to assure you that the trust of our supporters and contributors is something we have never taken lightly. To Hell + Back has been a not-for-profit initiative from its conception and will be until its conclusion, and one of our core values as a team is to be absolutely open and honest about how the funds we have collectively raised are to be used to produce this anthology. (You can read our original mission statement here if you like!)

Now that our funds are finally in the project bank account and ready to be used to purchase books and merch, you can expect to see a consolidated financial statement posted here at the end of each month that briefly details our expenditures as well as any additional funds raised by the upcoming pop-up shop. Funds raised through the two-week pop-up shop may not be immediately visible to backers as part of our grand total the way they were on Indiegogo, but we are committed to showing our accountability regardless. We will report on all books purchased in the pop-up show after the two-week purchase period has ended and our first full financial statement will be posted on February 28, 2021, after we have made our first purchases.

As for details about the upcoming pop-up shop as well as details about our project for those who are new to fandom, please keep your eyes open during the coming week for further posts detailing exactly where and when books will be available for preorder. We’re so excited to be moving forward!

Finally, we once again want to reiterate that it has been a joy working with everybody to bring this project of ours to life and we simply couldn’t have done it without your support. When the finale aired and we saw the aftermath, we were heartbroken. We shed tears, mourned, and made it through with the support of this fandom. These characters that we had loved for so long, and Dean and Cas’ relationship especially, weren’t given the proper resolution they deserved. If this goes to show anything, it is that fans always do it better, and a large part of our desire to open up this small pop-up shop is in the hope of healing our community, even if it is in a very small way.

Many of the stories enclosed within To Hell + Back are stories of happiness. They are stories where Dean, Cas, Sam, and all their loved ones find hope and healing and love and warmth, happinesses that are unique and different in so many ways, but always with the fundamental message that happiness is what we all deserve. We hope that once these books arrive in your hands, you will enjoy the works within them as much as we have, and that they will bring you some happiness, just as they have brought to us.

Sincerely and with much love,      

Your TH+B mods

Hi anon,

Hi folks, remember us? That’s right, it’s time for another update, and at long last we are getting to the good stuff! This one comes in two parts, so keep an eye out for part two, which will be released at 2:00 PM PST. It is a BIG ONE so you definitely don’t want to miss it!

Despite indulging in some much-needed holiday downtime after our project funds finally (finally!) landed in the bank, our team has nonetheless been busy behind the scenes finishing up the fine detail work of preparing our beautiful book for print, as well as plotting an updated delivery timeline that should finally see this anthology ship out to all our wonderful contributors and backers sometime in April! We know this must seem slow from the outside, but while there’s still a lot of work to do, just know that we’re definitely beginning to see the end in sight. 

Here’s what things look like right now:

All content edits will be finalized by January 31.

All merch to be ordered by mid-February.

Book design completed & accurate printing quote with final page count obtained by March 31, and then the book goes to print. (Woohoo!) Current estimated ship date: mid to end of April 2021 (to be confirmed once all other items are finalized). 

As always, we promise to keep you all in the loop with these milestones as we meet them, and we ask you all to keep your fingers and toes crossed that everything runs as smoothly as possible from here on out!

Yours sincerely,

Hi there,

Hihi!

Hi! We talked about this at length, and the short answer is no, but let me explain a little bit. The extras sale is really to get the rest of the books and merch out of @pray4jensen's house, because it's been there for like... months and months now, and it's taking up a ton of room. In order to prioritize that, until all the physical bundles are gone, the ability to only purchase a digital copy will not be possible.

Hello everyone! Given our recent update about us opening up a pop-up shop to make available more copies of our anthology, we just wanted to elaborate a little re: why we’re doing this and how we intend to remain transparent and accountable during this process, as well as how this affects the timeline for those of you who ordered a book back in May during our Indiegogo fundraiser.

We know that those of you who supported our initial fundraiser may be a little confused, given that we still haven’t shipped those books out. We totally understand this sentiment and it is something we discussed heavily before coming to this decision. To better clarify why we’re taking the steps that we are, here are three reasons why we felt this pop-up shop was needed:

* To give us a better cushion. When we first obtained a quote for the cost of printing our anthology, it was almost a year ago right before we opened up our fundraiser in March 2020 to begin funding our project. Quotes expire, and over our lengthy struggle with Indiegogo to obtain the money that we had raised, our quote did indeed do just that. Given that this is a new year, we anticipate that our updated quote will be a little higher, making the cost of our project more expensive, and we want to be sure that all those extras we promised back in May are still applicable. 

* To help us achieve our hardcover goal. We talked a lot about hardcovers over the course of our project, as we knew that if we sold enough books, we would be able to upgrade everybody’s paperback copy of the anthology to a hardcover for free. Last we spoke about this, we indicated that we were close to our hardcover stretch goal, but just a tad bit short in all likelihood. If our pop-up does well, we feel that it is feasible to afford hardcovers for all. If we still fall short, there are still benefits! As we promised earlier, leftover money will first and foremost be used to make everybody’s books more beautiful, not to mention possibly allowing us to do things like including extra bonus merch for everybody for free. Any money remaining after that will be donated to a local charity, Wish Vancouver, to help vulnerable women in our community.

* To help our fandom heal. We won’t lie. We were adamant about our fundraiser on Indiegogo being a one-time deal, and though we received numerous requests about opening up shop again, we declined every time citing our commitment to transparency and accountability. While our values have not changed, our negative experience with Indiegogo and our heartbreak after Supernatural’s series finale had us reconsider our earlier stance. Dean, Cas, Sam and all their loved ones deserved a better ending than they got, and knowing that fans always do it better, we felt the best way we could help our corner of fandom heal was to share further the many beautiful works of happiness and good endings that are enclosed within our anthology. For that reason, we felt a limited two-week long pop-up shop was the best way to do this: it gives new and old fans one last chance to get a copy! 

Please read under the cut for more information about our project timeline and how we will ensure accountability and transparency over the course of our project: