Important Info for Uncle Hugo Pre-orderers

[rolanni]

How to say this?

I'm very sorry, but the odds are good that, if you pre-ordered a copy of Alliance of Equals from Uncle Hugo's, you will not have them in hand before-or-on the official publication date of July 5.

This is not Uncle Hugo's fault

Simon and Schuster, which is Baen's distributor, has, for the entire month of June been assuring Baen, us, and Uncle Hugo that the books are on the truck, and should be arriving here at the Confusion Factory at any moment.

In fact. . .the books went onto the truck today, and (according to the tracking information from UPS) will arrive here in Maine tomorrow, Wednesday, June 29.  Even if Steve and I sign books like Mad, Signing Things (which I promise we will do), we're talking in excess of 200 books, many of them requiring personalization -- so, best case, we can get them on a truck to Minneapolis on Friday, July 1.  July 4 is, of course, Monday, so -- you see where I'm going with this.

To forestall -- No, I don't know why S&S behaved in this really frustrating manner, since I don't work at the S&S warehouse.

Again, apologies for the delay.  I promise it'll still be a good book, even it's mailed a couple days late.

Comments

[bandicoot.livejournal.com]

Does S&S print the books as well as distribute them?

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Don't really know...actually, I do really know, because our authors' copies come straight from the printer and the return address is not S&S Jersey.

S&S

[starthorn.livejournal.com]

I send a wet raspberry in the general direction of the s&s person responsible for this debacle. Honestly, the temerity, the sheer audacity, why I'm nearly speechless with indignation at the sheer effrontery of these actions. Where the hell is that pinbeam, lets see how s&s likes a good ole Yxtrang invasion being called down upon them...