Thank you!!
Brian
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A huge shout out to Dan and Mindy who pulled my Sleeping Beauties lettered out of the shipping pile so that the address could be changed at the very last minute!! I know it is not easy to do when you have the packing and shipping machine rolling so I do appreciate it.
Did anyone get a Lettered Beauties they want to sell?
My lettered sleeping beauties arrived and its TOO BIG for the book case. I raised the shelves for GBB, but the length of Sleeping Beauties does not allow the door to shut if you put the spine facing out. I have IKEA shelved with the glass doors. I just need the slipcase to be 1/4 of inch smaller.
IS SB the same size as some of the other lettered books from CD?
It's similar in size to Doctor Sleep and the IT lettered editions. IT is actually a bit wider and Doctor Sleep isn't quite as wide. But all 3 are roughly the same height and slightly varying thicknesses with SB being the thickest. SOD I and II lettereds are significantly taller / widers but similar in thickness. Buick, FDNS, and Dark Man are completely different tray case designs.
I rarely quibble with you guys, and I agree that the cases are very nice (if large)!
But I disagree about the endpapers - I would love to see Cemetery Dance upgrade from printed endpapers to true hand-marbled endpapers. There's a huge difference, both aesthetic and tactile. I'm also biased a bit, here, because for whatever reason, I'm really into endpapers, especially marbled ones, and I always cringe a little when I open a nice book with "marbled" endpapers only to find out that they are printed. For the lower-budget books, I get it! I don't expect the endpapers from the Graveyard Editions to be hand-marbled (I say that because I'm holding the newest one here, and I love the whole aesthetic of the series as well as the nice prices). But for a big budget item, that little extra touch would go a long way :)
EDIT: So I've gone back and checked my notes on this one, and you're right these were printed. We didn't have much of a choice though, our supplier couldn't get us the quantities / colors we needed for this one so we ended up having to settle for printed marbled endpapers. It's just been so long since we went over all of this that no one remembered until we went digging.
I sometimes don't think about the large supply chain that publishers rely on, and how disruptions in that chain result in changes of plans. I'm happy that your heart was in the right place and that the goal was to have hand-marbled papers, even if it didn't pan out :blush:
Awesome that you guys take criticism/suggestions well. Great to see. It shows the desire to make the books as nice as you can for us.
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I think the problem is that at the end of the day you can't really please everyone. While some people don't like the bigger cases there are definitely people who do. On top of that we've already kinda established a style for our SK lettered editions, and inevitably there are people that would see the change as a downgrade or us cutting costs. That's not to say that we couldn't try something else in the future, just trying to explain some of the reasoning for why we have continued to make them this way (other than the fact that we like them and we're also out to make books that we like).
Hi Brian, Dan,
Just wanted to confirm the lettered SB was sent requiring a signature for delivery? Mine will arive in the next 5 hours, but I won't be home, so just wondering if I need to be worried about someone stealing it.
Thanks,
Mike
I can't confirm that. It definitely depends on the shipping method. USPS I can't actually select that as an option. UPS / FedEx have that option for us but in my experience there's a 50/50 chance that they'll just ignore it for residential addresses. I did ask "other Dan" to enable it where he could, but A. he's forgetful and B. UPS / FedEx can't be trusted.
Uggg, UPS just left it at my door, and in plain sight of the street. There is a pillar that packages can be hidden behind, and USPS usually puts packages behind it.
Also, my ring did not give me a motion detection or doorbell alert. Lucky I got a delivered text from UPS. Leaving work now to get it in my house safely.
Is there any chance the October Dreams books or the Horror Hall of Fame will get ebook releases?
I'm positive we don't have have the eBook rights for October Dreams 1 and Horror Hall of Fame, OD I definitely predates us doing any eBooks at all and I'm pretty sure Horror Hall of Fame does as well. I'll have to check October Dreams 2 though, it's possible we have the rights, but it tends to be a bit more difficult to get the correct rights on those bigger anthologies.