Secret of the Stars

Secret of the Stars is a for-profit fanzine centered on the ship between Albedo and Aether, Albedo/Aether from Genshin Impact.
==About==
The interest check for this project opened March 15, 2021https://twitter.com/AlbetherZine/status/1371491990446206976 and ran until April 10, 2021https://twitter.com/AlbetherZine/status/1381098567792726016, garnering over 270 responses, some statistics from which were posted on the zine Twitter account. Mod applications ran from March 20, 2021 to April 7, 2021https://twitter.com/AlbetherZine/status/1372589085152411650, while contributor applications opened April 25, 2021 and were scheduled to close May 25, 2021https://twitter.com/AlbetherZine/status/1386288886624751617, but were later extended to June 4, 2021https://twitter.com/AlbetherZine/status/1397307168190201857. 160 page artist applications, 47 merch artist applications, and 37 writer application were receievedhttps://twitter.com/AlbetherZine/status/1401835282979123201.
During the creation period of the zine, the zine account hosted a small Twitter-poll-based choose your own adventurehttps://twitter.com/AlbetherZine/status/1449389685181071369 connected with a star-sign-based scenario generator gamehttps://twitter.com/AlbetherZine/status/1451707352353148931.
Preorders opened on November 8, 2021 with a scheduled end date of December 12, 2021https://twitter.com/AlbetherZine/status/1457724793797578757, which later was extended to December 26, 2021https://twitter.com/AlbetherZine/status/1470026750851567618. The following pricing tiers were offered:
* Snow Covered Path ($10 USD): PDF
* Wyrmrest Valley ($25 USD): Physical Zine
* Skyfrost Nail ($35 USD): Physical Zine + Prints + Stickers + Sticker Sheet
* Entombed City ($45 USD): Prints + Stickers + Sticker Sheet + Button + Wooden Standee + Charms
* Starglow Cavern ($60 USD): Physical Zine + PDF + Prints + Stickers + Sticker Sheet + Button + Wooden Standee + Charms
PDF add-ons were available for the Wyrmrest Valley, Skyfrost Nail, and Entombed City tiers for $5 USD.
Five stretch goals were included in the project: a sticker at 25 orders, a physical zinehttps://twitter.com/AlbetherZine/status/1467873218379718658 giveaway at 50 orders, an additional button pin at 75 orders, a full bundlehttps://twitter.com/AlbetherZine/status/1470407233397673991 giveaway at 100 orders, and an enamel pin at 125 ordershttps://twitter.com/AlbetherZine/status/1457725600576118784. The fourth stretch goal was unlocked by December 13, 2021https://twitter.com/AlbetherZine/status/1470406040101351434.
All zine preorders were announced shipped as of May 1, 2022https://twitter.com/AlbetherZine/status/1520682971929653248, and announced delivered as of July 1, 2022https://twitter.com/AlbetherZine/status/1542871241970790401. Leftovers sales ran from August 1, 2022 to August 26, 2022https://twitter.com/AlbetherZine/status/1554104673837015041, and all packages among those were announced shipped as of September 11, 2022https://twitter.com/AlbetherZine/status/1568906255707815937.
==Contributors==
===Page Artists===
===Merch Artists===
===Writers===
===Mods===
== References ==
Category:Genshin Impact Zines
Category:2022 Zines
Category:Slash Zines