Black Blossom was a serial that began on February 4th, 2011 and concluded on July 31, 2012. It updated on Mondays, and if donations broke a predetermined threshold, readers got an "extra" on Fridays. Extras included any of a number of things, such as art, interactive Q&A-style meta-conversations with characters from the story, vocabulary or encyclodedia entries which gave insight into bits of Ai-Naidar society, or other related materials. The complete novel was released for sale on December 10, 2012 in paperback and ebook formats.