BOOKS!

Books books books books booksbooksbooks books!

I am a REAL SMALL-PRESS PUBLISHER now.

It took three tries for the truck to actually get here. I mentioned this while chatting with the driver and he regaled me with a tale of a delivery to Facebook’s offices that was SUPPOSED to be a 15-minute dropoff, but turned into a three-hour epic when a manager came out and said “we’re not scheduled to take this yet so take it away”; he had to get it all back on the palette and in the shrinkwrap. He also expressed curiosity as to the book when I mentioned that it’s my first delivery as a small-press publisher, so I gave him a flier.

Now to start signing them, drawing in them, and getting them in the mail! I am definitely gonna be hitting non-furry cons this coming year, because I don’t want to have these things filling up my closet too long if I can help it. I’ll have four full boxes and one partially-full one after I ship out the ones that are already spoken for.

Valuable lesson learnt: When scheduling the dropoff, schedule it early, and politely ask if they could maybe make sure to load it near the back of the truck so I have a fighting chance of getting it in the shipping window.