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The Secret Night Market for Readers

Created by The Snarky Company

Enamel pins for readers, inspired by a magical secret market of stories and secrets.

Latest Updates from Our Project:

Campaign End — What’s Next (Plus a 40% Off Code)
5 months ago – Fri, Feb 13, 2026 at 12:04:17 PM

🌙 The Market Has Closed - Here’s What’s Next


The Secret Night Market for Readers has officially come to an end. Thank you for showing up, sharing, pledging, and making this campaign such a success.

By now, most backers have likely already been charged for their pledge. If you haven’t seen the charge yet, it should process soon.

📋 Next Step: Surveys

The next thing you’ll receive is your backer survey. This is where you will:
  • Confirm your shipping information
  • Pay for shipping
  • Add any additional add-ons to your order

I’m currently working on building out the surveys and my goal is to release them on February 19th.
I’m prioritizing getting these out as quickly as possible because I’d like to begin production as soon as surveys are completed and finalized.

Once surveys go live, I’ll send another detailed update with:
  • Exact survey deadlines
  • Shipping timelines
  • Production estimates
  • Any other important dates you need to know

We’re officially moving into production mode, and I’m so excited to bring these designs to life.


🖤 A Special Backer Thank You

As a little extra thank you for supporting this campaign, I’ll be sharing an exclusive Etsy code for 40% off your total order of $25 or more. You can click the below link or use code: BACKERS40 at checkout to redeem your code. This code is only available to campaign backers and is good for two weeks.

https://thesnarkycompany.etsy.com?coupon=BACKERS40

On to production. Thank you for backing the Night Market and continuing to support what I create.

Cheers,
Liz


⏰ Final Hours: See What’s Coming to the Black Market Stall 🖤
5 months ago – Thu, Feb 12, 2026 at 09:26:03 AM

Hey everyone, 

With just about six hours in the campaign, here's my final update about what's coming today and post campaign.

🖤 The Black Market

As we head into the final hours of the campaign, ending today at 4PM EST, I wanted to share a graphic showing what’s being added to our final stall, The Black Market Stall. ( see graphic below)

Some of these designs are still in progress and will not be fully finalized before 4PM, but I do want to show you what's being worked on and what's coming still. 

While some pieces in this stall lean political or focus on banned books, not everything will. The Black Market is a catch all for bookish pins of any genre or theme. If it applies to readers, it belongs here.

Here’s what’s included:

📌 Reading Is Political
Black dyed metal with soft enamel. Simple, direct, and not overly decorative. Just a small statement pin for your bag, jacket, or hat.

📚 Ban Fascists, Not Books
This comes in either a gold plated or silver plated option. It's hard enamel and features either pearl or glitter enamel and UV printed details.

🎧 New Audiobook Pin
Not everything in this stall is political or about banned books though. This is a screenshot of a new audiobook design, currently in progress in Illustrator.

📦 Two New Bag of Books Trinkets
Two additional mini trinket designs joining the stall.


Even if some artwork is not fully finalized before the campaign closes, all designs shown will be completed, and I will share finished versions in a future update.


These will be available as pledge level pin options and as add ons in the post campaign survey.



📝 What’s in the Survey That Is Not on the Campaign Page


The post campaign survey will include expanded options such as extra campaign pins, past popular designs, stickers, bookmarks, and possibly other accessories.

BackerKit’s campaign page has limited customization, so the survey allows me to offer more flexibility and add on combinations.

We are almost at the finish line. If you have been waiting to pledge or adjust your selections, now is the time.

The Night Market closes at 4PM EST.


Thank you for building this with me. 🖤

⭐️ Final Call: All Available Designs Revealed + 24 Hours to Back ⭐️
5 months ago – Wed, Feb 11, 2026 at 11:48:28 AM

We’re officially in the final stretch. 

There are just about 24 hours left to back the campaign and lock in your pins, plus all eligible free rewards before the Night Market closes its doors.

If you’ve been waiting to adjust your pledge, add that one more design to your cart, or finally jump in… this is your moment.


✨ The main designs for the Cozy Nook Stall are now live!

 You can scroll down to check them out below. I also added a new graphic showing all unlocked and currently available designs, and there are still more coming before we close.

Tonight I’ll be uploading:
  • The Cozy Nook tiny trinket designs
  • A preview of some designs from the Black Market Stall

We’re ending this the same way we started it — live designing, unlocking, and adding a little extra magic right up to the very end.

Thank you all for making this market feel so alive 🖤📚

Cheers,
Liz

All available and unlocked designs



Newly added Cozy Nook designs


✨ Magic Menagerie Stall — Complete ✨
5 months ago – Mon, Feb 09, 2026 at 02:49:13 PM

✨ Magic Menagerie Stall — Complete ✨

The Magic Menagerie stall is officially complete 🐉✨

You can now find all of the Magic Menagerie pins on the campaign page, or scroll down below to check them out together.

Each stall in this project is supposed to have around 2–3 main designs, but I will be honest, I got a tiny bit carried away with Magic Menagerie. Between the number of designs and the different variants, it definitely stretched my time more than I expected. 


What's Unlocked

Everything currently on the campaign page, as well as anything added between now and the end of the campaign, is fully unlocked. We have already reached the funding level needed to open the remaining two stalls and unlock their designs.

What’s coming next?

Based on the poll results, the Cozy Nook Stall will be the next stall to open ☕📚
However, during the final three days of the campaign, I will be doing something a little chaotic and opening the Black Market stall at the same time while working on both stalls simultaneously.

Full transparency, I genuinely did not think Cozy Nook would win the poll. I was so sure it was going to be either The Smut Peddler or The Fortune Teller’s Bindery, so this one surprised me a bit.


About the other stalls

As it stands right now, The Smut Peddler and The Fortune Teller’s Bindery likely will not make it into the final lineup for this project and will instead be saved for a future bookish campaign.

That said, if I manage to complete one or two designs from either of those stalls before surveys go out, I will make them available either as options for your pledge level pins or as a campaign add-on.

Thank you, as always, for being patient with my very live designing brain and for letting this project evolve in real time. I am excited to dive into Cozy Nook next 💛

Keep checking back over the next three days because I will be adding designs to the stalls as they are completed.

Cheers,
Liz



✨ New Design Reveal: The Sand Clock of Light and Dark ✨
6 months ago – Wed, Jan 28, 2026 at 05:26:39 PM

Hey all,

I’m so excited to finally share the latest design headed to the Magic Menagerie stall: The Sand Clock of Light and Dark. (check it out below)

This pin was inspired by the book This Safe Darkness by Alexis Marigold, specifically the themes of night and day and dark and light. I was lucky enough to read an ARC of the book, and I absolutely loved the world she created. The magic system, the atmosphere, the tension… it all stuck with me long after I finished reading.

While this design is intentionally generic enough to stand on its own as a magical artifact, I still wanted to be respectful and transparent. I reached out to Alexis to ask her permission to include it in this campaign, even though there are no direct quotes, references, or naming tied to the book itself.

If you love dystopian romance, This Safe Darkness is truly worth picking up. It’s an indie author debut, which makes it even more special, and it features a circadian rhythm–based magic system, an underground utopia, and a disabled FMC in her 30's. Please consider checking it out and supporting Alexis if that genre is your jam.
You can grab the book (special edition) directly from her website, or if you’d like to support an indie bookstore, both the hardcover and paperback are available through Brightside Books. It’s also available from larger retailers if that’s what’s easiest for you.


As for the pin itself, there is a lot happening here in the best way:

  • The top and bottom of the hourglass will be 3D molded
  • Clear epoxy will be used to give the illusion of glass
  • It features a mix of glitter, pearl shimmer, and pearl swirl enamel
  • Plus cut-out details

This one is very much a statement piece, and I can’t wait to bring it to life.

More magic soon 🖤✨

Cheers,
Liz