With Jeff's setup he manually sets the plates in the press so getting them to line up perfectly would be an extremely time consuming process. I talked to him a little about it yesterday and he said that for that much work his competitors would charge over double his cost. Which to be fair for a custom made case would not surprise me. Jeff's quality is great and the price you cannot beat plus he will even eat the cost for a custom plate if you have a few orders ready for him.
I thought about this a little and Jeff did email me back this morning and say that he could do a generic Any Weir plate for this like he does for other Authors.
So I guess the big question is what do we want?
RP1: the circles on the spine, centered. ( I think this one would look awesome in the the white case with pink foil to match the book
The Martian: The Martian on the cover and nothing on the spine or something on the spine and nothing on the cover. Due to the size of the books we have to choose one or the other.
I am open to anything really and I like the circles for the RP1, kinda an homage to the the 1/1 on the S/L
@becca can you tell me the height of the standard 1/1 so that I can create a plate that could possible work for both books if you wanted one for each?