Hi Everyone,

I hope you all have a wonderful last day of 2025. Here's to a more magical 2026!

Just a quick update here as it is an important one. This last week, my book designer and I managed to complete our print estimates with the printer. This is an important part. The printer completes all book blocks, full-color interiors, endpapers, and dust jackets. The printer also binds the trade hardcover as it has fewer binding requirements and they are capable of doing it.

All elements not with the trade hardcover -- like the full-color interiors that will be tipped into the book, printed endpapers, etc. -- get shipped to the bindery for their two month queue. The special editions of the book get completed there. When the printer finishes the trade hardcover and book blocks/print elements, they will ship me the trade hardcovers on three pallets. The book blocks/print elements will be shipped to the bindery where they get put into the bindery's queue. That queue is usually two months.

What does this mean for timing?

I think the trade hardcover will arrive in my warehouse in March. I will ship out backer orders with the trade hardcover in them because it's been so long and getting some orders out the door is better than not, in my opinion.

The special editions will arrive in my warehouse likely sometime in May, all things going to plan. They require the speciality bindery to make them as beautiful as possible and that takes time sadly. I'll do what I can to speed that up though. Maybe it won't be two months.

All merch (the two bookmarks, the tarot cards, the coin, etc.) has already been created and is in my warehouse. And I sent out the EPUB a few weeks ago. 

So at least those things are done.

My book designer did say last week when we were finalizing things and looking at the art that this is going to be one of my best looking books. I couldn't agree more. I hate it's taken this long but I think the end result will be worth it.

More news when I know it! Happy New Year!

Shawn