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Let’s start with some alpha for the degens and news for the rest of us.
November will see the release of a Wordler Village Passport collection. These will be among the first NFTs ever to be minted through a certain mobile app so popular that, statistically speaking, even your mom probably uses it.
Each Wordler Village Passport will come with a license to use Wordler Village book cover templates for your own books and stories. These designs underlie the dozens of variant covers I’m making for the first Wordler Village Compilation Volume, a whole separate project beyond the scope of this announcement.
In setting up that project, I found the designs so visually striking that I thought it would be criminal to not allow lifetime access to them for other authors who link back to the project for as long as they continue to hold a Wordler Village passport.
Passports will also allow gated access to a Wordler Village community of authors and readers, where we’ll hone our craft, share resources, share our stories, and learn more about how the evolving technologies of Web3 can create new revenue streams, innovative reader experiences, collaborations, and distribution models.
Moderators and Brand Ambassadors will be needed. Applications are currently being considered. Apply within.
Two steps down the road, Passports will allow their holders access to Ye Olde Wordler Village Minting Press, currently under construction.
Much like the fabled magic of Rumplestiltskin, Ye Olde Minting Press will spin PDFs of straw into NFTs of gold linked to an e-reader that’s accessible from any computer or mobile device.
Passport holders will be able to use the minter to fill the Wordler Village Reading Room and Bookstore with books and stories responding to Wordler writing prompts.
Ye Olde Minting Press will also be the perfect place to drop works made with Wordler Village Co-Author Licenses. That’s another whole separate project beyond the scope of this announcement, but look for news within the week.
Incidentally, the image above is not the final version of Wordler Village Passport 364. It’s one of the files that ended up on the cutting-room floor as I continue to upgrade the artwork. Official Passport reveals are yet to come.