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Hi everyone! October has started so it's update time.
As of yesterday, all orders where surveys have been filled out are locked. Those that have paid for physical items that need shipped will have shipping costs come out automatically when cards are charged (this should be tomorrow sometime if I'm doing my mental math correctly). My current hope is that I will have most, if not all orders shipped out by the end of October. This does look more likely than it did last update because all physical things I was waiting on arriving have since arrived.
That said, there are a couple of unexpected factors that are slowing things down -- either now or potentially will later in the month. The first is that I'm still working through creating the sheet music bookmarks for early bird orderers. This process is taking longer than I expected to the tune of nearly double the time I estimated. One of my friends suggested I print out the sheet music and turn that into bookmarks rather than hand-notating them all, but that's not what I promised you all. So the hand-notation soldiers on. It will still necessitate batch shipping, but orders without those bookmarks may well go out first just for my sanity. Second, I unexpectedly received notice today that I am summoned for jury duty later this month. While this shouldn't impact the actual making time on my end, it does impact the fact that I can typically go to the post office on my lunch most days. While I won't know for certain until the actual dates come up, it comes at a horrible time for shipping everything at end of month. I know that's not my fault, but I do still feel bad, not to mention a bit more stressed.
If you have any friends interested in getting Project Tasman, preorders are now live. While it would be really cool to get the neat little orange banner on Amazon, as I've never had one before, admittedly the ways that'll make me the most money would be people preordering from my Ko-Fi (physical copies) or Itch (digital copies). I don't expect a ton of preorders to happen because I suspect most folks who want the book supported here. That said, spreading the word is always appreciated.
As of yesterday, all orders where surveys have been filled out are locked. Those that have paid for physical items that need shipped will have shipping costs come out automatically when cards are charged (this should be tomorrow sometime if I'm doing my mental math correctly). My current hope is that I will have most, if not all orders shipped out by the end of October. This does look more likely than it did last update because all physical things I was waiting on arriving have since arrived.
That said, there are a couple of unexpected factors that are slowing things down -- either now or potentially will later in the month. The first is that I'm still working through creating the sheet music bookmarks for early bird orderers. This process is taking longer than I expected to the tune of nearly double the time I estimated. One of my friends suggested I print out the sheet music and turn that into bookmarks rather than hand-notating them all, but that's not what I promised you all. So the hand-notation soldiers on. It will still necessitate batch shipping, but orders without those bookmarks may well go out first just for my sanity. Second, I unexpectedly received notice today that I am summoned for jury duty later this month. While this shouldn't impact the actual making time on my end, it does impact the fact that I can typically go to the post office on my lunch most days. While I won't know for certain until the actual dates come up, it comes at a horrible time for shipping everything at end of month. I know that's not my fault, but I do still feel bad, not to mention a bit more stressed.
If you have any friends interested in getting Project Tasman, preorders are now live. While it would be really cool to get the neat little orange banner on Amazon, as I've never had one before, admittedly the ways that'll make me the most money would be people preordering from my Ko-Fi (physical copies) or Itch (digital copies). I don't expect a ton of preorders to happen because I suspect most folks who want the book supported here. That said, spreading the word is always appreciated.
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