Thank you, everyone, for your patience. Once again, it has taken us longer than expected to get a Places by the Way/Found by the Way out the door, but we're finally ready to go. The print copies arrived from the printer the other day and the PDFs are ready to go as well.
All of you Backerkit backers will get a bit of a rarity. The cover of Lair of the Storm Giant reads "The Storm Giant's Lair" but we'll fix it in later printings so that the version going out to you backers will be like those postage stamps that are valuable to collectors because the featured image was printed upside-down by mistake.
This misstep notwithstanding, we'll set down to shipping out rewards within the next day or two; we had to order more photo mailers for shipping the print copies and they should arrive tomorrow. So the good news is that we're almost at the end of the process for this crowdfunding cycle and you'll get your rewards soon.
I hope that the incipient holiday season finds you well. I myself am not quite myself at the moment, I'm afraid, as the recent bout of dank, wet weather in California has me concerned that I'm coming down with a cold for the first time in years. To make matters worse, I slipped on a wet sidewalk and fell rather heavily — nothing broken, but I've been telling myself that this is why every region of my body feels sore to some degree right now, and the fact that I have just reached a widely-acknowledge age of senior citizenship has nothing to do with it. Those of you who are still young, enjoy it while it lasts, because senior discounts only compensate for so much.
More importantly, I have been preoccupied with getting ready for Backerkit's Holiday Market, an online sales event that they just sprang on us creators a month or so ago. I jumped at the chance, figuring that I had nothing to lose except the time spent setting up a storefront. Of course, it took more time and trouble to set up the storefront than I'd anticipated, but it's ready, and I've been promoting it as heavily as I can over the last couple of weeks through Substack and our Facebook feeds. There's none of our RPG stuff for sale that any of you haven't already seen and had a chance to buy at a similar price; if you backed this campaign, you are already on the cutting edge of Ramen Sandwich Press. But we are throwing in some gaming and history-related Ramen Sandwich Tees t-shirts into the mix, so you may want to take a look at it anyway. The Holiday Market begins on November 18 and runs through December 1.
That's all the news for now — or all that I can think of, at any rate. You can always keep up with my various ailments and complaints (as well as my reflections of tabletop and digital gaming) through my Substack blog. I'll keep you updated more frequently now that fulfillment is almost underway.
