The Vampyricon looks quite nice. Does the brown one have a felt- or suede-like surface, or is it just me?
The Vampyricon looks quite nice. Does the brown one have a felt- or suede-like surface, or is it just me?
Eastasia has always taught college students to feel pride or shame according to their race.
It's pretty groovy. It's what the printers call a "soft touch" type of material. Neither CD or LRB have ever used it before on a book. I've always wanted to, so here we are...Originally Posted by St. Troy
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I'd call the brown closer to the feel of a soft leather than a felt or suede.It's pretty groovy. It's what the printers call a "soft touch" type of material. Neither CD or LRB have ever used it before on a book. I've always wanted to, so here we are...
Brian
Nice!
Eastasia has always taught college students to feel pride or shame according to their race.
Very nice looking book!
As far as the prints, competition is good and keeps businesses from getting lazy and complacent. The use of local businesses is commendable as well if it's working for both parties.
You don't know my kind.....You don't my mind.....Dark necessities are part of my design.....
Can I have an update on the Salems Lot portfoilio please?
Here's what I posted yesterday.
I think we're getting close on those. I know our local printer who usually handles art prints for us has been taking a long time with the prints. That said given the shipping schedule I wouldn't get my hopes up that they will actually ship in January even if they where to show up tomorrow. I don't really have the schedule locked down super far out, but we're currently shipping Haven by Tom Deady (was supposed to be out in December) and then Vampyricon is next, plus I really want to get the lettereds for Salems' Lot and Gone Girl shipped this month. The shipping queue is fluid thing though so we'll see.
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Email sent. I wasn't going to send mine back but now I'm curious.....
Email sent. Thank You Brian!
Thanks. Bummer. AstroDad, We were offered an original drawing to add to the portfolio last november which my wife bought for me for chirstmas last year and I believe there was an update in July 2016 that David Palumbo had finished all the drawings that were purchased.Here's what I posted yesterday.
I think we're getting close on those. I know our local printer who usually handles art prints for us has been taking a long time with the prints. That said given the shipping schedule I wouldn't get my hopes up that they will actually ship in January even if they where to show up tomorrow. I don't really have the schedule locked down super far out, but we're currently shipping Haven by Tom Deady (was supposed to be out in December) and then Vampyricon is next, plus I really want to get the lettereds for Salems' Lot and Gone Girl shipped this month. The shipping queue is fluid thing though so we'll see.
I'm with you here man. Been waiting for this portfolio since I ordered it over a year and 2 months ago.Thanks. Bummer. AstroDad, We were offered an original drawing to add to the portfolio last november which my wife bought for me for chirstmas last year and I believe there was an update in July 2016 that David Palumbo had finished all the drawings that were purchased.Here's what I posted yesterday.
I think we're getting close on those. I know our local printer who usually handles art prints for us has been taking a long time with the prints. That said given the shipping schedule I wouldn't get my hopes up that they will actually ship in January even if they where to show up tomorrow. I don't really have the schedule locked down super far out, but we're currently shipping Haven by Tom Deady (was supposed to be out in December) and then Vampyricon is next, plus I really want to get the lettereds for Salems' Lot and Gone Girl shipped this month. The shipping queue is fluid thing though so we'll see.
Thanks Mike! I had no recollection of it, but this morning went searching through emails and did find that I ordered a Palumbo Remarque in February 2016. Relative to the Carrie portfolio this one really had bad luck in the time taken to complete due to all of the factors Brian and Dan have mentioned.Thanks. Bummer. AstroDad, We were offered an original drawing to add to the portfolio last november which my wife bought for me for chirstmas last year and I believe there was an update in July 2016 that David Palumbo had finished all the drawings that were purchased.Here's what I posted yesterday.
I think we're getting close on those. I know our local printer who usually handles art prints for us has been taking a long time with the prints. That said given the shipping schedule I wouldn't get my hopes up that they will actually ship in January even if they where to show up tomorrow. I don't really have the schedule locked down super far out, but we're currently shipping Haven by Tom Deady (was supposed to be out in December) and then Vampyricon is next, plus I really want to get the lettereds for Salems' Lot and Gone Girl shipped this month. The shipping queue is fluid thing though so we'll see.
I am just thankful that they take the time to keep us in the loop. I can't imagine the constant frustration of these third parties holding things up while you are the one having to be accountable to your customers for other people's mistakes. CD's transparency goes a long way for me in continuing to order from them along with knowing I can just post here and ask where my Dark Tower framed print is (hint, hint) every few months.
On Mindy's framing table, actually!ask where my Dark Tower framed print is (hint, hint) every few months.
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Email sent
FYI, today I noticed that the CD "Production Status Index" page now says June 2017 instead of spring 2017 (June could still be spring, of course)....All three editions will be published in spring 2017.
Eastasia has always taught college students to feel pride or shame according to their race.
Yeah, I re-read that when I went to post the latest update and wanted to be more precise to give more appropriate expectations now that I'm hearing a more firm date from our vendor. Sorry again about the delay on this one, it's really annoying me that it isn't already in everyone's hands. I can't wait to discuss the added material with everyone and this book has just been kicking me in the butt with every turn. Thanks again to everyone who has been so awesomely patient.FYI, today I noticed that the CD "Production Status Index" page now says June 2017 instead of spring 2017 (June could still be spring, of course)....All three editions will be published in spring 2017.
Brian
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Most forms of "entertainment" that come across my path are either forgettable or outright irritate me - I'm happy to wait as long as it takes for something righteously tremendous (and the transparency helps).
Any chance that delays on The Shining might result in future SK Doubleday Years releases (Night Shift, The Stand, Pet Sematary) being released along a comparatively accelerated schedule (a bit closer together), given that they are already being worked on in some sense? Or probably never closer than 6 months apart? Perhaps it is driven more by CD's overall workload.
Speaking for myself, as a spouse-dependent spender, I'm just fine with longer waits between books.
Eastasia has always taught college students to feel pride or shame according to their race.
I had originally hoped to publish two per year, but it's been amazing how various factors have prevented that.
For example, with NIGHT SHIFT, I still haven't gotten approval for my requested Bonus Features. It might be a "yes" or a "no" or a "some of these" kind of deal. If it's a "no," then things move much faster from here on out. If it's a "yes" or "some" sort of answer, then I need to get an official contract issued and signed, I need to get our typesetter typing files, I have to ask the artist to make time in his schedule for some additional work, I need to revise spec sheets for the printer, etc, etc. Dominos start falling and each one can get stuck and stop our progress. (Also, there's a reason I didn't ask for my ideal Bonus Features for every book all at the same time... It's a good way to get a "yes" to one and "but not these" to the others even though the requests are for different books... Spacing out the requests, one book at a time, helps tremendously. Just a little tip if anyone out there is pitching an author on a multi-volume set!)
But I'm trying really hard to find GOOD bonus features that make the books different and interesting. I might get told "no" but I'm trying, ha!
Brian
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Hell I'll wait as long as necessary if you get the bonus materials for this one! One of my faves.....have I mentioned that yet?I had originally hoped to publish two per year, but it's been amazing how various factors have prevented that.
For example, with NIGHT SHIFT, I still haven't gotten approval for my requested Bonus Features. It might be a "yes" or a "no" or a "some of these" kind of deal. If it's a "no," then things move much faster from here on out. If it's a "yes" or "some" sort of answer, then I need to get an official contract issued and signed, I need to get our typesetter typing files, I have to ask the artist to make time in his schedule for some additional work, I need to revise spec sheets for the printer, etc, etc. Dominos start falling and each one can get stuck and stop our progress. (Also, there's a reason I didn't ask for my ideal Bonus Features for every book all at the same time... It's a good way to get a "yes" to one and "but not these" to the others even though the requests are for different books... Spacing out the requests, one book at a time, helps tremendously. Just a little tip if anyone out there is pitching an author on a multi-volume set!)
But I'm trying really hard to find GOOD bonus features that make the books different and interesting. I might get told "no" but I'm trying, ha!
Brian
Really though, can't wait to see what they are IF they happen.
As for The Shining we've waited 40 years for something like this, what's a few more months? It's going to be awesome!
I can't wait to see Pete's edition, too. We managed to go in two totally different directions for the artwork for our editions and I think that's great.Hell I'll wait as long as necessary if you get the bonus materials for this one! One of my faves.....have I mentioned that yet?
Brian
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The effort is appreciated.
There's a specialty "fine" book publisher out there (not a direct competitor of CD's) that quite often just slaps a leather binding on an existing edition of an existing book (they don't actually rebind existing page blocks, but they might as well - most of their releases can be compared, page by page, with the conventional editions of these books). Sure, they can produce what they like, there is an audience for this kind of thing, and they even have a few that I might like to have (I do like leather and gilding, and ribbon markers...), but I've never even been close to blown away by anything they've done - I've never contacted my fellow bibliophiles to say Have you seen what (this publisher) has done with (one of their books)? You've gotta check it out!
CD is the opposite - there's always something pulling me in, even for books I've read but am not wild about. Nice bindings, sure, but not always the same material or style (they won't bore you); new and quality artwork; bonus features that vary and go beyond a by-the-numbers "hey, the author here, it's been 25 years and isn't this a nice work of mine?" afterword (these are fine when they're all that can be had, but CD doesn't settle for fine).
With the unnamed publisher referenced above, there's a sense that they are mailing it in quite a bit of the time - with CD, there's a sense that they've looked at it from a fan's perspective and left nothing on the table - they're never going to have to say to themselves, "we should have tried harder to find those missing bits of The Shining" or "what if we added a map of Salem's Lot to Salem's Lot?" - they generated the cool ideas and executed, and if a release lacks something that readers had wanted and believed possible (like bonus short stories in Night Shift), rest assured that CD made the phone calls, shook the tree, and rattled the cage.
Now, there won't be missing chapters available for every future CD release - there are limits to everything - but the baseline of quality they've established and the fact that their editions don't look like everything else out there make them and their releases always worth a serious look. For example, while Pet Sematary isn't quite a favorite of mine (although I do like it), I am excited to see what CD does with it, I expect they will add touches that enhance what I do like about it, and I expect I'll buy it. For another example, with CD's edition of The Dark Man, I went from (before seeing it), "wow - this is a mighty thin concept; I can't imagine wanting this even if someone gave it to me" to "hmm...look at what they did here...nice layout...Chadbourne was really on his game...I can feel it coming off the page...I need this." That's some nice work there.
CD understands the difference between a sundae and a bowl of ice cream.
Eastasia has always taught college students to feel pride or shame according to their race.
Just wanted to swing in to say "thank you!!" real quick before I jump on a phone call... I'm actually trying to shake one more tree here before the end of the day, if I can. Hopefully something fun falls out instead of a coconut.
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 agree with you about CD!
However I do think there is something to be said for a uniform said, the aforementioned publisher (let's call them E. Press, no that's too obvious, how about Easton P.?) look mighty classy on a shelf. The quality of the products vary a bit, I've received some that are a tad unsatisfactory, a rebound book essentially, while most of their I think are quite nice. The Sci-fi line I think is really, wait for it, stellar. I think they do a nice job differentiating each volume with unique gold stamping and new frontispieces. Their deluxe books, likewise, really stand out, always top notch artists and really beautiful slipcases. But to each their own!
What's wrong with a coconut? Better than shaking a tree and getting a cat in the face!Just wanted to swing in to say "thank you!!" real quick before I jump on a phone call... I'm actually trying to shake one more tree here before the end of the day, if I can. Hopefully something fun falls out instead of a coconut.
Brian
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