Cemetery Dance discussion thread

[Br!an]

A member here has the new illustrated edition book in the slipcase that SKCollector made for the first hardcover editions. He says they are the same size book.

[Brian James Freeman]

A member here has the new illustrated edition book in the slipcase that SKCollector made for the first hardcover editions. He says they are the same size book.

Yeah, that definitely seems to be the case... so to speak. I'll double-check all of the measurements with our slipcase maker and then we'll need to decide if we should order extras!

Brian

[Ben Staad]

Thanks for the replies!

How long is the typical US shipping time from notification to delivery?

The three biggest factors are location, method of shipping, and the item itself.

UPS Ground will be 1 day to the states around Maryland, then 2 days for the states beyond that, etc, until you reach 5 or 6 business days to the west coast.

The Post Office varies widely. Sometimes we'll have packages to New York and California delivered on the same day. And sometimes the Post Office forgets to pick-up our outbound packages on any given day, so they don't actually leave until the next morning.

But the item itself also plays a role. Dan will have a better feel for this than I do these days, so he can chime in if I'm wrong, but sometimes all of the shipping notices for a preorder used to go out on the same day, even though it would take three or four days to pack and ship the items -- the system didn't know any better. (Dan might have found a way around that, but I can't recall now!)

If anything seems to be taking longer than expected to reach you once it has left the building, drop Mindy a line and she can start a tracer on the UPS package or perform our ritual shipping prayer chant for a USPS package.

Brian

It's pretty hard to lock down. In most instances I'd say if you get your shipping notice on a Monday night the latest it would typically actually leave the building would be the following Friday, and that's kinda a worst case scenario. USPS picks up 3 times a week so if for some reason they couldn't pick up on Wednesday then your package wouldn't leave until Friday, if say it was packed after USPS picked up on Monday in that particular scenario. The other scenario that can throw off when you receive your shipping notice vs. when it actually ships is if it's a project where everyone gets a specific number for a book. In these instances we almost always print all of the labels for the project up front. This means shipping notices go out all up front, but the packages may take a couple days to actually ship.

Once they leave our building the time can vary vastly depending on the shipping method. UPS's shipping times are pretty standard 1 to 5 days depending where in the country you are. USPS on the other hand (especially Media Mail) can be hugely different.

[dnemec]

A member here has the new illustrated edition book in the slipcase that SKCollector made for the first hardcover editions. He says they are the same size book.

Yeah, that definitely seems to be the case... so to speak. I'll double-check all of the measurements with our slipcase maker and then we'll need to decide if we should order extras!

Brian

You'd better order extras. You know how fickle us King collectors are!

[Br!an]

... so to speak.

Brian

... more or less.

[Stockerlone]

Think on the CD hp are no pics from the illustrations...
Can someone tell my which artist illustrated which story in Dark Delicacies s/l ?

tks a LOT

[MLG]

If no one has responded by then I will try to remember to look tonight.

Think on the CD hp are no pics from the illustrations...
Can someone tell my which artist illustrated which story in Dark Delicacies s/l ?

tks a LOT

[Br!an]

A member here has the new illustrated edition book in the slipcase that SKCollector made for the first hardcover editions. He says they are the same size book.

Yeah, that definitely seems to be the case... so to speak. I'll double-check all of the measurements with our slipcase maker and then we'll need to decide if we should order extras!

Brian

I just picked up the Illustrated edition. It is the same height. It is slightly wider, about 1/8 inch. It is slightly thinner. It fits the slipcase easily. It sits flush to the opening in the slipcase.

[Johnny Alien]

I had a preorder ship recently. It had the obvious delay between saying it was shipped and actually being picked up but the weird thing is that it originated in MD, I am in PA but it went all the way to NC and has been sitting there. That seems like a really bizarre way to get from MD to PA. It's like less than 2 hours away from me at it's origin point.

[DanHocker]

I had a preorder ship recently. It had the obvious delay between saying it was shipped and actually being picked up but the weird thing is that it originated in MD, I am in PA but it went all the way to NC and has been sitting there. That seems like a really bizarre way to get from MD to PA. It's like less than 2 hours away from me at it's origin point.

Welcome to the joys of shipping with the USPS, especially Media Mail.

[jsmcmullen92]

I had a preorder ship recently. It had the obvious delay between saying it was shipped and actually being picked up but the weird thing is that it originated in MD, I am in PA but it went all the way to NC and has been sitting there. That seems like a really bizarre way to get from MD to PA. It's like less than 2 hours away from me at it's origin point.

Welcome to the joys of shipping with the USPS, especially Media Mail.

I had a package the other day go from Arizona back to the Bell Springs CA shipping depot up to Washington to Dallas, Texas then by truck to Austin...

Sometimes I would love to see the flight maps of how packages travel around this country before getting to their destination.

[Brian James Freeman]

I had a preorder ship recently. It had the obvious delay between saying it was shipped and actually being picked up but the weird thing is that it originated in MD, I am in PA but it went all the way to NC and has been sitting there. That seems like a really bizarre way to get from MD to PA. It's like less than 2 hours away from me at it's origin point.

Welcome to the joys of shipping with the USPS, especially Media Mail.

Dan, were you around when that one package that had gone missing in the USPS system suddenly arrived back at our door 10 or 12 months after it was shipped? It had postmarks from Canada, Mexico, and somewhere else...

Brian

[skyofcrack]

I had a preorder ship recently. It had the obvious delay between saying it was shipped and actually being picked up but the weird thing is that it originated in MD, I am in PA but it went all the way to NC and has been sitting there. That seems like a really bizarre way to get from MD to PA. It's like less than 2 hours away from me at it's origin point.

Welcome to the joys of shipping with the USPS, especially Media Mail.

Dan, were you around when that one package that had gone missing in the USPS system suddenly arrived back at our door 10 or 12 months after it was shipped? It had postmarks from Canada, Mexico, and somewhere else...

Brian

It was probably sitting in that Raiders of the Lost Ark warehouse for a while too.

I've had packages take a week from MD to VA but 2 days from CA.

[Br!an]

I had a preorder ship recently. It had the obvious delay between saying it was shipped and actually being picked up but the weird thing is that it originated in MD, I am in PA but it went all the way to NC and has been sitting there. That seems like a really bizarre way to get from MD to PA. It's like less than 2 hours away from me at it's origin point.

Welcome to the joys of shipping with the USPS, especially Media Mail.

I had a package the other day go from Arizona back to the Bell Springs CA shipping depot up to Washington to Dallas, Texas then by truck to Austin...

Sometimes I would love to see the flight maps of how packages travel around this country before getting to their destination.

I think everything from the southwest US goes through Bell Gardens. I've had packages from Las Vegas and Arizona go through there on their way to Florida.

[Ben Staad]

Received the afterword today for Dark Advent. Thanks so much. I like the title on the first page. It had me laughing.

[Cwalker]

So my wife and I went to a ghost hunt tour of Ft Knox in Prospect Me. Built in 1844, it has a long supernatural history.
Walking through the gate, the corner of my eye caught this...



MY first thought was "hot puppies!! corporate sponsorship!!!"
Then I read it a little more carefully and realized my mistake.....
Blast Cemetery Dance and their subliminal messaging.....

[Brian James Freeman]

Production updates are on the way today via email to those who preordered GONE GIRL or 'SALEM'S LOT from us.

Brian

[Br!an]

[webstar1000]

MINT. I cannot wait for Salems Lot. David Palmumbo's work on this is unreal. PERFECT choice for the artist on a novel like this. I am hoping to have this by Xmas!!

[Brian James Freeman]

MINT. I cannot wait for Salems Lot. David Palmumbo's work on this is unreal. PERFECT choice for the artist on a novel like this. I am hoping to have this by Xmas!!

Early 2016 is the expected arrival date for the slipcases, depending on how long our slipcase maker is closed for the holidays. Sometimes it's 10 days and sometimes it's three weeks. But there is a "first photo" in the newsletter.

Brian

[webstar1000]

MINT. I cannot wait for Salems Lot. David Palmumbo's work on this is unreal. PERFECT choice for the artist on a novel like this. I am hoping to have this by Xmas!!

Early 2016 is the expected arrival date for the slipcases, depending on how long our slipcase maker is closed for the holidays. Sometimes it's 10 days and sometimes it's three weeks. But there is a "first photo" in the newsletter.

Brian

Your mission should you choose to accept it Brian.. is give us the Stand/Shining next year... and I will be a happy man!

[Kingfan24]

MINT. I cannot wait for Salems Lot. David Palmumbo's work on this is unreal. PERFECT choice for the artist on a novel like this. I am hoping to have this by Xmas!!

Early 2016 is the expected arrival date for the slipcases, depending on how long our slipcase maker is closed for the holidays. Sometimes it's 10 days and sometimes it's three weeks. But there is a "first photo" in the newsletter.

Brian

So we won't see Salems until after Christmas?

[CyberGhostface]

Looking forward to 'Salem's Lot, the dummy book is a beast.

[Br!an]

So we won't see Salems until after Christmas?

Correct

[bdwyer19]

Brian - Any updates with the Finders Keepers slipcases?