Present: Brandan Roberts, Michaela Butler, Jennifer Weigel, Jason Willard, Kathleen Locke
Absent: Dahlia Thomas
Others Present: Francis Wiget
Prior Meeting’s Minutes: Accepted as written.
Old Business Topic 1: Our 2025 nonprofit compliance forms to Maine and the Federal government have been completed and accepted.
Old Business Topic 2: This year’s WWoO event was a success despite the month change and being added closer to the WCWC event. The physical anthologies and event packages were mailed to the participants.
New Business
Topic by Roberts: The first annual WCWC event is scheduled for next month starting on the 5th. While it doesn’t need to be done here at this meeting, Some of us should get together to think up prompts and challenges for next month.
Topic by Roberts: The Kickstarter campaign for Not My Proudest Fap has concluded, making a total of $2,500 ($1,500 more than the goal), meeting both stretch goals, so Roberts rearranged the House schedule to make new cards.
Motion by Roberts: After evaluating the system that Nat 1 uses for beta readers, Roberts made the motion to remove the “beta reader” role on Discord and make ARC copies of books available for any person on the Nat 1 Discord to choose to read and evaluate. Links will be provided to download the books from BookFunnel, where they will need to “sign out” to download. He believes this will get much more participation for beta reading, as right now we have only one very active reader and the rest are editors. Passed unanimously.
Topic by Roberts: The Kickstarter backer copies of Schoolyard Insults have been manufactured, mailed, and arrived. The packages were put together and mailed to the backers. The game is set to go on sale as soon as the backer copies are shipped. Next, we will launch the Not My Proudest Fap card game Kickstarter. Lastly, Roberts is going to so it can be released either by the end of 2026 or in early 2027. Willard reminded Roberts to check the dice included with Schoolyard Insults, as they were incorrect in the advance copies. Roberts noted that the dice have been updated for future purchases, but they were incorrect for the backers. Correct dice was added to the Kickstarter pledge packages.
Motion by Roberts: While the event is already planned on going forward because enough board members have agreed to it, there hadn’t been an official vote, so Roberts made a motion to establish an annual two-week “Faewalk Tavern Tales” event and anthology in October. Unlike WCWC, SCWC, and WWoO, this event will be capped, and people will need to apply to participate by telling us what they want to write about in advance, and then we will work with them. This will keep the event intentionally smaller but also make the anthology be eligible as a credit for authors wanting to join any writing guilds or organizations that require publishing credits. The exact format for the event will need to be discussed in the officer-and-probie-office channel of Discord at some point before the event begins. After some discussion, the motion passed unanimously.
Meeting Adjourned: The next Board meeting is scheduled for the week of August 2-8, 2026.
Minutes Submitted by Brandan Roberts, 6/20/2026.