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Sleeping Beauties by Stephen King and Owen King:
All of the printing is done! Our printer has finished slipcasing the Gift Edition books as well. The Limited Edition traycases have arrived in the warehouse and look awesome.
All 24 *pallets* of books are loaded up at the printer, and UPS Freight is scheduled to pick them up next week. Dan has made room in our warehouse and in our overflow warehouse next door. Mindy is preparing lots and lots of orders, putting in a TON of change of addresses! There is A LOT of paperwork to process now to get everything ready for these to ship, but the Gift Editions and the Signed & Numbered Limited Edition should begin shipping in mid-May. Shipping all of the orders will take approximately four weeks, and if you ordered directly from us and have been receiving the production updates via email, you will receive a shipping notification via email.
For those who ordered the Deluxe Signed Lettered Edition, our high-end case maker has started work on the special box that will be the key presentation piece for holding and protecting the book, but those won't be completed for three to four months due to the heavy, intricate hand-work involved. Watch for those to ship this fall. We'll email you an update when we have a more specific timeframe.
Thank you again for all of your patience!
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Yeah... and AARP membership is age 50 and early Social Security retirement benefits are available at age 62... So time is doing something funky! Well, no matter what's going on, the good news is, the wait is almost over, regardless of which timeline you come from!
Brian
Founder and publisher of Lividian Publications. My other website is BrianJamesFreeman.com. Please always feel free to email me or send me a PM if you have any questions about either!
I want a lettered! For free!
I also want world peace, a tax-free tropical island to live on with a climate controlled room (about 500' by 500') in my mansion on the beach to store my CD books in.
See to it...now.
Oh yeah...please
I'm sure if there is intelligent life somewhere out there in the universe, they are wise enough to stay away from us.
And the people bowed and prayed, to the cell phone god they made...
I think I've been pretty forthright about the delays and problems with Sleeping Beauties, but I just realized I forgot to share something here that I shared on the CD Forum this week, which you might find interesting. So here I go, with a little more detail since I have some additional time tonight! But I'm also pretty exhausted, so many more bonus typos for you... we shall see!
As you all know by now, last June one of our printers closed their doors without warning -- and with Sleeping Beauties and other projects trapped inside. (And the deposit payments, some quite large, never to be seen again, unfortunately.)
Anyway, we shifted gears, moved the projects around to our other two printers, and got things rolling again... but a few weeks after we started Sleeping Beauties at the oldest of our printers, the one we printed our very first book with in 1992 (!), they privately notified us that they had entered bankruptcy proceedings...
This slowed the production process WAY down, which is why the book printing took nearly six months longer than planned to finish from the time it started with them.
Every time they went to order a special material, they had to pay upfront (a process their system wasn't configured for and caused endless headaches) and some vendors still wouldn't work with them.
They’ve also been losing trained staff along the way as people have left for other gigs, and of course they haven't been hiring replacements for the people who left, leaving shifts short. (Our favorite account rep at any of the vendors we work with had to bail, which I’m still bummed about. He was a guy who could Get. Things. Done.)
The good news is, they did finally finish Sleeping Beauties and it's beautifully done, and at the same time, they completed the bankruptcy process with one of our other much bigger printers buying them. So, their facility is getting rolled into this much bigger and healthier company, which is great for the terrific people who work there.
Now, I know some people will ask WHY we didn’t post about this sooner...
The main reasons are:
1) Based on their situation headed into bankruptcy, we knew they would finish the book, even if it was the last book they printed and there was one guy there doing it by candlelight.
2) We didn’t want to cause a panic among our collectors given the trouble this book had already gone through. If, for some reason, they did close their doors without completing the book, we would have been able to try again with another printer -- probably the one who bought them. (It was clear from the beginning they had valuable assets that would be bought and rolled into a bigger company, and we were fairly sure who it would be.)
But, we did want to share this information now, so you'd have a better idea of what had happened along the way with this project. We know some people will see this as us "just making excuses," but they probably would have also been unhappy either way, and I'm not sure what "making excuses" is good for now that the books are done and will be shipping this month.
Thank you again to everyone here, as always, for being awesome.
Brian
Founder and publisher of Lividian Publications. My other website is BrianJamesFreeman.com. Please always feel free to email me or send me a PM if you have any questions about either!
Was Strange Weather one of the other projects affected by this?
You don't know my kind.....You don't my mind.....Dark necessities are part of my design.....
Founder and publisher of Lividian Publications. My other website is BrianJamesFreeman.com. Please always feel free to email me or send me a PM if you have any questions about either!
You don't know my kind.....You don't my mind.....Dark necessities are part of my design.....
We have a good list of "ready for the printer" books, and after we get Night Shift rolling (I believe June is Richard's plan, after the dust settles from settling all of the bills on Sleeping Beauties), we're going to do some fresh prioritizing and slotting.)
We're lucky as small companies go. We have a very loyal customer base that has been with us for a very long time. And readers and book collectors are not like other "types" of customers. In addition, CD's owner has some hobbies that include making movies and writing books, which often turn out to be pretty profitable!
My fun fact before I turn in for the night: when the magazine added COLOR to the cover for the THIRD ISSUE in 1990... people at NECON predicted the company was doomed.
It was something Richard mentioned at an Aberdeen IronBirds game in 2002 when we met in person for the first time, and I've never forgotten it.
Best,
Brian
Founder and publisher of Lividian Publications. My other website is BrianJamesFreeman.com. Please always feel free to email me or send me a PM if you have any questions about either!
It is! Ha! I've been burning the midnight oil for a project of my own... gotta get a bunch of ducks in a row for a May 13 announcement. (Can I find one more cliche to finish with? Nope... Okay, then.)
But yeah, I'd better turn in, we're hosting a family birthday party in about seven hours and it would be good to be a little coherent for it!
Brian
Founder and publisher of Lividian Publications. My other website is BrianJamesFreeman.com. Please always feel free to email me or send me a PM if you have any questions about either!
And... I'll swing back and clean up all of the typos in tonight's posts after I get some sleep. They are plentiful, I'm sure.
Founder and publisher of Lividian Publications. My other website is BrianJamesFreeman.com. Please always feel free to email me or send me a PM if you have any questions about either!
Founder and publisher of Lividian Publications. My other website is BrianJamesFreeman.com. Please always feel free to email me or send me a PM if you have any questions about either!
Hi Brian,
With Night Shift headed to the printers soon, do you have a rough idea when the Doubleday Years edition of The Stand will go up for sale?
Thanks
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any good Samaritan here who could help me obtain the coming CD limited edition of sleeping beauties for a reasonable price. Long story short: my son is an inspired artist and just started a year ago to get into king ( mission accomplished ;-) and when he saw Jana artwork for the book he was blown away. I like to give him a nice present for his graduation from senior high school. But I'm short on budget. Hope someone could help. Thanks. This place is awesome.
If you can't locate a S/L you could always secure a copy of the limited artwork portfolio (link below)
https://www.cemeterydance.com/sleepi...portfolio.html
Mulleins
I'm the caretaker of Room 217..............I've always been the caretaker of Room 217
Good idea but I doubt the portfolio will be ready for shipment by the time of your son's graduation.
Good point i thought about it, but he actually really liked the book and he became a King fan, so his first signed book with this great artwork should be a dream for him.
I'm not sure if this will be more than your budget will allow but Jana might still have some originals for sale. You could contact her and let her know she's inspiring a new artist. I purchased a piece from her and she's really nice. I have her email if you are interested.
Wanted: Human skin edition of The Book of the Dead. Will accept PC copy.