Solar Clipper Diary

I’m getting about four or five questions a day about the limited edition hardcovers. This is what I know:

There will be 250 of them.

They are not available yet. I don’t know when they will be available because the printer can’t seem to deliver a galley proof that actually has MY book correctly positioned between the covers.

No, there’s no way to preorder them. I know that’s not the answer you want. It’s the only answer I got. We don’t want to take money and commit to an order until we can be sure you’re going to get the book.

They won’t sell out that fast if the Quarter Share sales are any indication.

When we get them, I’ll put up a notice here and email the group list.

The books are finally shipping from Amazon and you can put an order at Ridan for a paper back.

The limited edition hardcover will be available in a couple weeks or so — as soon as we get through the process queue.

Somebody thought I needed to tell you that there are now 10 episodes on the feed. I’m not sure I understand why you need a blog post to tell you that. It’s all over twitter. It’s on the comment thread. Oh, and they’re in the feed.

You *do* know you can subscribe to the books and the episodes get — you know — delivered to you, right? You can also subscribe to the posts here, on the podiobooker blog, and the comment streams of both? You *do* know that, right?

I’ve lost about four days now to holidays, car failures, and snow removal (the city has started enforcing snow removal laws – budgets are tight everywhere and it’s a moneymaker for them – yikes). Yesterday I put down two full episodes but ran out of editing time. I plan on getting at least ONE of them up in tonight’s updates. I’m hoping for both but … I’ll get one to you at least.

Ok, back to editing audio … demanding fans wanna know what comes next.

Hint: big debt.

Well, we’re two months late, but Half Share is up in Kindle format. The paperback will be along as soon as it falls out of the pipeline on the Amazon end.

We’ve already started on Full Share in order to get back on our production target of April, 2011, and might even manage to get Ravenwood in over the summer.

A lot of people have asked for a “pre order link” or some such thing but our choice not to do that was actually deliberate, not an oversight. I don’t want my books listed until they’re actually available. If you can see them, then you can buy them. It’s probably bad business and might cost me some sales, but the books will be available for a long time. Sorry for any inconvenience that causes people, but I want to make sure we’re not publishing vapor-text.

Given how long it took me to get my act together on this one, that’s probably a good thing.