Your friendly neighborhood ops-manager here, and I thought I'd take over this month's update to give you a rundown on where we are with fulfillment.
I had hoped to post a grand "the books are on the water!" announcement, but we're not quite there yet. They were scheduled for a container last week, but we threw the printer a curveball by asking them to also ship some of the Standard Edition books to our book trade distributor at the same time. If you have been following these updates for the last few months, it probably comes as no surprise that it is fairly important to us to have a game based on the only science fiction novels to win three consecutive Hugo awards, to be well represented in bookstores everywhere. And since the Diamond lawsuit continues to drag on, saving some money by shipping to the distributor directly was likewise important.
But the good news is that the books are done, and should be on their way to the warehouse this week. The Game Moderator Kits, which were printed by the same company, are already in the warehouse. Once the core rulebooks have departed, based on how quickly the GM Kits arrived, it should take just two weeks for them to get there.
The printed Quickstarts are also on the way, and while I haven't received word that they've shipped yet, they are being printed domestically, so we're expecting them to beat the core books to the warehouse.
Team-ownership at GRHQ, has also finished bagging up all the Crystal Shard Dice, and they're ready to head to the warehouse as well!
So many DICE!
And finally, the Bookplates are all signed, and on the way!
We're currently expecting to start shipping backer rewards by the end of May.
