A New Kind of Schedule Slip
Last week we announced that the books would start shipping on the 30th of June. We’ve been looking that date over for the last week, talking with our distributors and our warehouse and so on to make sure everything is in place for that date to happen. And that’s when we realized something.
We’ve got it all together well enough that we can ship earlier than the 30th! (That’s right; for once, we’ve got a date on the schedule that’s moving in the other direction.)
Accordingly we’re moving our ship date to June 23rd. That should put books in folks’ hands a week earlier — for some people. during the same days that Origins is happening, where the books will be making first contact with the fans. And that feels about right.
That’s great! We’re starting up an Ottawa game (and are about ready to make some Faces for the city), and this’ll go nicely with that.
YAY!
Go team Evil Hat! You’re starting off my Monday on a high note, I think I might ride the wave of shiny happy thoughts all the way through tomorrow.
I am filled with primal joy!
A week early?
Oh dear. You haven’t got the hang of this publishing thing yet, have you?
How did this happen? Not that I’m complaining.
Me am Bizzaro Gamer! Me am welcome Evil Hat guys to Bizzaro universe!
Evil Hat am need change name to Nice Bare Head.
Woo! This is great news to wake up to! Friends and I were already planning a Seattle game and this puts us all much closer. Thanks and keep up the amazing work.
@Neal, the fruits of some conversations with my warehouse about shipping timeframe feasibilities, and the printer being very on the ball in terms of getting the product where it needed to be.
Fred Hick’s a chronomancer!!!
I’m calling the Wardens!
Selenio.
@Selenio
Call them AFTER the freaking books are published.
Blimey.
Are they being distributed by the Knights Of The Cross “Just When You Need Them” Delivery Service?
i’m still voting that fred is actually The Merlin in disguise. Well on a serious not i roll my rapport as a maneuver to place the aspect on fred “Thank You!” lol
We’re making a deadline early?
I think my brain just broke into several tiny pieces.
Do you know if IPR is expecting to start shipping books pre-order on the 23rd?
@Tranlin, they’ll certainly have our permission to do so.
This is my favorite kind of schedule slip!
I don’t recall the shipping method these bad boys will be using. How will they be coming?
We’re gonna try to use UPS on as many of the domestic ones as we can manage.
Wow….you guys ROCK!
So there will be tracking info on domestic shipments? My son is getting the summer blahs pretty bad and and bugging me about it. Like only a kid with Asperger’s can bug someone… B-)
@Scott, we’re hoping to have it, but I can’t be sure how quickly we’ll be able to provide it. It’s manual entry on over 1600 orders at this point, and I’m the one who’d be doing that — while off at a convention managing the release of the game. So you may find yourself getting tracking information a few days after the books have shipped.
Well ok. I would’ve thought there would be a connection between ordering database and shipping database… Manual entry, now that bites.
@Scott, the warehouse gets a spreadsheet and works the spreadsheet. The spreadsheet gets sent back to us with tracking information filled out, eventually, but that may be at the end of the whole ship-out process. THEN data entry commences.
Please add a wink or smiley face (your preference) after the “Well ok.” Don’t want to sound unappreciative, cause I’ve done that sort of distribution work and it’s no fun, no fun at all. Thanks for all you guys do. B-)
Dang you’re quick.
My order still shows as “preparing” on the evil hat site. Were all orders going out on the 23rd or did this mean that the books would start shipping on the 23rd and some might not actually get shipped until the 30th?
=(
Sorry to bug you guys, but have the books shipped yet?
Thanks,
Dan
@Dan and @Scott, please read the latest blog post.