PSA: Shipping Saltation
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rolanniWe have had our First Inquiry regarding our intentions for receiving and shipping the subscriber copies of Saltation. Follows our timeline.
We will probably take delivery of 1200 copies of Saltation in March. We don't know exactly when in March. We have an Educated Guess in hand, but at this point it is exactly that, and not a hard delivery date.
After we take delivery of those books and get them under roof in the cold storage next to SRM Galactic Headquarters, we will sign them*.
*I don't know how long it's going to take, exactly, to sign 1100 books (which I believe to be the total of subscriber orders). Eleven hundred books is A Lot of books; I mention this because some folks seem to have no concept of that. Also, even though we both have relatively short names, signing them 1100 times takes a while. Our experience with Fledgling suggests that signing alone will consume on the order of several days to a week. Alas, we cannot devote a full week to only signing books; we have a day-job, and SRM usual business to accommodate during this time.
After the books are signed, we will log the database and print the labels. This also takes time, because, yanno -- printers, labels, on-line postage services. . . Once the labels are printed, Steve will single-handedly pack and mail those 1100 books. This could, conservatively, take weeks and weeks. And weeks.
It's entirely possible, as with Fledgling, that subscribers will receive their thank-you Saltations months after the book has been available from bookstores. We apologize for this and regret any inconvenience.
To sum up: We intend to ship Saltation to subscribers as quickly as humanly possible without killing ourselves, neglecting the cats, or defaulting on other of life's obligations. This seems the best course for everyone.
Please Note: At this time, we are closing pre-support donations to Saltation. If we have any books left over after the epic task described above is completed, and a suitable waiting period joined, we will put them up for adoption.
Thank you all for your understanding of this process -- and for your interest in and on-going support of our work.
We will probably take delivery of 1200 copies of Saltation in March. We don't know exactly when in March. We have an Educated Guess in hand, but at this point it is exactly that, and not a hard delivery date.
After we take delivery of those books and get them under roof in the cold storage next to SRM Galactic Headquarters, we will sign them*.
*I don't know how long it's going to take, exactly, to sign 1100 books (which I believe to be the total of subscriber orders). Eleven hundred books is A Lot of books; I mention this because some folks seem to have no concept of that. Also, even though we both have relatively short names, signing them 1100 times takes a while. Our experience with Fledgling suggests that signing alone will consume on the order of several days to a week. Alas, we cannot devote a full week to only signing books; we have a day-job, and SRM usual business to accommodate during this time.
After the books are signed, we will log the database and print the labels. This also takes time, because, yanno -- printers, labels, on-line postage services. . . Once the labels are printed, Steve will single-handedly pack and mail those 1100 books. This could, conservatively, take weeks and weeks. And weeks.
It's entirely possible, as with Fledgling, that subscribers will receive their thank-you Saltations months after the book has been available from bookstores. We apologize for this and regret any inconvenience.
To sum up: We intend to ship Saltation to subscribers as quickly as humanly possible without killing ourselves, neglecting the cats, or defaulting on other of life's obligations. This seems the best course for everyone.
Please Note: At this time, we are closing pre-support donations to Saltation. If we have any books left over after the epic task described above is completed, and a suitable waiting period joined, we will put them up for adoption.
Thank you all for your understanding of this process -- and for your interest in and on-going support of our work.
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Date: 2010-02-08 11:37 am (UTC)[And er talking of which I forget what the price of shipping to Europe was - I need to contribute more for that. I'm it was mentioned somewhere but I'm failing to find it and of course I threw the Fledgling wrapping away without looking]
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Date: 2010-02-08 12:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-08 01:36 pm (UTC)Note to self: Do not email/ask about Saltation until beginning of birthday month (August) at earliest unless hear otherwise.
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Date: 2010-02-08 01:58 pm (UTC)I will follow as closely as I can and maybe try to adopt a copy when they come available - my hubby and I will be particularly pleased to PAY THE AUTHORS DIRECTLY for their work. I just finished Fledgling and am excited about Saltation.
With a second child due in April, I'll have to make sure Darling Hubby friends you and follows up on stuff, since I'll likely not be online much for a while.
Thank you so much for your blog and keeping folks posted. And try not to get some horrible wrist injury from all that signing!!!!!
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Date: 2010-02-08 02:01 pm (UTC)And yes, I have eARC so I can be patient. Don't want you guys to wear your wrists etc. out.
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Date: 2010-02-08 08:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-09 01:21 am (UTC)No worries
Date: 2010-02-08 02:58 pm (UTC)I can't imagine writing my name 1100 times. My penmanship, never the best, would become a totally illegible scrawl after the first 50 or so! Also with the strain so much hand work puts on your arm, take it slow. We don't want to send you back to physical therapy.
Anne (AKA foster sister to Nanook of the North)
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Date: 2010-02-08 03:27 pm (UTC)1: Please take as much time as you need in signing books so that you don't over stress that wrist again.
2: I was on the Fledgling lost souls list because of an involuntary email address change. (Curse you Verizon and Fairpoint!)
I suspect the same to be possible for Saltation. I can't seem to find my donation receipt. Is there any way I can check and or update that information?
3: Would it be possible to re-post that mail donation address on your sidebar?
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Date: 2010-02-08 09:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-08 03:34 pm (UTC)(Yes, I do know how long it takes just to print labels and stick them on envelopes. I only had a hundred or so for the con on the concom of which I was this last weekend, that that was bad enough. You have ten tims that number...)
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Date: 2010-02-08 03:52 pm (UTC)I just finished my hardcopy of Fledgling last night. Lovely job. Pining for the next plus Ghost Ship.
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Date: 2010-02-08 05:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-08 06:38 pm (UTC)What would not be OK would be for either of you to injure yourselves trying to hurry the process along.
PSA: Shipping Saltation
Date: 2010-02-08 07:44 pm (UTC)Whee !
If you can't get the cats to sign, how about signing bookplates starting now and pasting them in as part of dispatch ?
or rent a Presidental (electric) pen to automate the task.
Michael Dolbear,
Little Egret in Walton-on-Thames
Re: PSA: Shipping Saltation
Date: 2010-02-08 09:52 pm (UTC)[1] Presumably signed 'pp' by a reasonably sapient being of genus homo rather than by the cats, although if you could persuade (purrsuade?) them to put a paw in the right place that would work.
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Date: 2010-02-08 08:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-08 08:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-09 02:54 am (UTC)Barbara in Texas
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Date: 2010-02-09 10:57 am (UTC)