PSA: Fledgling Supporters, take note!

[rolanni]

If you subscribed to Fledgling sufficient unto receiving a thank-you book from the authors, and you have not heard from and responded to Scott Raun, now is the hour!

Please feel free to post the following link -- with explanation and following the rules of courtesy -- in those places you Fledgling readers may gather: http://www.korval.com/fledgling/

There are approximately 175 people who stand in danger of not receiving their books, because their addresses cannot be verified. Please be sure that you are not among their unhappy ranks.

Thank you!

Comments

[martianmooncrab.livejournal.com]

I am not on either list, nor have I received anything either via mail or email. I sent my check in a couple weeks ago.

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

If that's the case, you're probably here in the stack of papers that says "enter into database after rec'd back from Scott."

We can, however, check this proposition.

In Real Life, your name is...?

[aitchellsee.livejournal.com]

I'm another person who thought I'd contributed enough to receive a copy but haven't seen my name (perhaps I've not looked in the right place? and I have changed my default email account over the years and no longer use my compuserve.com account, if that makes a diff) If I got mixed up and never topped the dividing line between contributors and contributors-of-enuf-for-a-copy that's OK, I just don't want to be, er, inadvertantly left out :-)

Aitchellsee / HLC / Harriet L Culver

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Check your email.

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Make that -- write to me. My email to you just bounced back.

[oberon.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I also don't seem to be on the lists, nor have I received email that I know of.

It would be either ckormos@gasliquids.com or oberon2@shaw.ca, Chris Kormos

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Sent a reply to you via LJ private mail.

[slash-reader.livejournal.com]

I live in the UK & am concerned about the postage you will be facing to send my copy. I feel like I made my donation at the time & now you will have to give me back $10-15 of this donation for the postage... I am not so pleased about this.

Is there a way to donate to cover postage costs which won't annoy your tax authorities?

cheers!

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Thank you for thinking of this.

I went over to the US Post Office site and fed in the information for sending Fledgling to the UK. It would appear that, cheapest, we're looking at $14.20 for one book, which is, frankly, somewhat more than we had budgeted for postage out of the donations*. The post office has been going, er, batshit the last few years with rates, which of course we didn't -- and couldn't -- know in 2007, when this all started. (We have, for the record, seen four postage rate increases since January 2007.)

Because we are freelancers, the IRS considers any money we take in to be taxable -- that's just how it is.

Let me poke around for a couple minutes and see if I can set something up with PayPal. I will make a new post at the top of the journal detailing what I may discover.

Watch the skies!

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*the accounting for Fledgling and Saltation went like this: 33% off the top for taxes; split the remainder in half, one half to postage and (so we thought at the time) printing, the other half to keeping the authors under roof.

another person who sent a check a few weeks ago

[fiopi.livejournal.com]

I didn't get an e-mail either but I am probably in the same pile as martinmooncrab since I sent a check not long ago. Real life name Diane Peters. Is there a US postage amount or shipping weight on the book so I can do a zip search on the postal site? I'd like to send some additional funds to help cover postage and packaging, too.

Re: another person who sent a check a few weeks ago

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

I have your information right here, ready to be entered when the database comes back to me.

The book and carton weigh 1.5 pounds. Coming from 04903.

Thank you!