Sorry, guys. Yesterday we got an email from Subterranean Press, which politely asked where the tipping sheets were. The tipping sheets which were sent last year, the tipping sheets for the special editions, which we were supposed to sign, those tipping sheets.
Can you sign 2,000 sheets in one day? Turns out that yes, you can.
So instead of working on Roman, we did that yesterday. It took all day, our hands now hurt, and we are tired.
But the collector edition of Innkeeper Chronicles, Vol II: Sweep of the Blade and Sweep with Me with illustrations by Luisa Preissler will soon be coming to Subterranean Press. We will let you know when the buy link become available.
Roman will return to his regular schedule next week.
will vol. 1 have a reprint?
It doesn’t look likely, I’m afraid 😟
Ah, shoot. One can dream.
I am going to show my ignorance… what is a tipping sheet for?
The tip in sheets are the signing pages autographed by the author which will be included in the special edition 🙂
Ouch your poor hands!
This sounds like something that could happen to me. Laid aside because there is so much time and other things are more pressing at the moment and then totally forgotten.
Because the lack of Roman i reread another book. There was a wise sentence, that fittet your situation.
„For every period of stress, there must be a time of rest and contemplation.“ 😉 Please take your own words at Heart.
Oof, signing that many is no joke, go you two! And for such a neat pile, not piles everywhere requiring multiple signatures, how I seem to manage important paperwork.
When it’s not under my cat. I accidentally taught him the phrase”important documents” so he flings himself upon whatever has been designated important and will bite anyone who tries to remove him from them.
(The game is so much fun, if I get junk mail it is immediately designated as important documents and we see how long he can stretch himself out to cover everything at once).
Speaking of herding cats, I worked as an events director for our national bookstore chain and remember very vividly Neil Gaiman’s “Last Signing Tour Ever” which involved wrapping his hand in ice between very excited fans, and needing to help him drink it because a straw was an abomination 😂 He couldn’t properly hold his cup, but damned if he was going to let a single person go home disappointed!
Kate’s “the first rule of bodyguards” applies to PR people and their authors, I’ve always found it tremendously funny.
It’s just as well for me no Roman this week, I can’t feel guilty for disappearing down a rabbit hole. Still blowing my mind, I won a copy of Pacific Drive, so have spent about 60hrs of the last 72 careening around the Pacific Northwest in the world’s most awesome-looking station wagon, spending entirely too much time loot goblin-ing (it has a ROOF RACK now, my life is complete), fending off joy-riding robotic tumbleweeds called rabbits, and generally basking in one of the most gorgeous games I’ve played in a while with writing and voice acting that is just stellar.
And SOUNDTRACK. And the UI! I was so excited by the UI amd how they used icon and colour coding to relay huge amounts of information to players at a glance I started chatting with the UI lead, and we got talking about how the key wound up being colour, specifically for ADHD and other neurospicy folks.
Which makes sense, as I am definitely neuro-underbaked. I can read entire novels of background lore, but in the moment I need to know if I can sacrifice a stack of rubber — helpfully denoted by a little rubber duck icon — for some lead bits to bodge together something to make these fun hot zones a little less full of un-aliving me.