Production Update Questions

[bookworm 1]

That shipping queue sure is slow, Dan! Been a month waiting for Night Eternal, Home, Cold Dead Hands, Chart of Darkness, and Little Girls to hit the front of the line.

Let’s see??? There’s a pandemic and last I heard Dan was working short staffed. Think those are reasonable excuses.

[joejets]

That shipping queue sure is slow, Dan! Been a month waiting for Night Eternal, Home, Cold Dead Hands, Chart of Darkness, and Little Girls to hit the front of the line.

[slayn666]

I see the subtitle and description of Shocklines has been updated it's not an absurdity. Any chance this means it might be heading to the printer soon?

[Martin]

Ah. Okay, that explains it — thanks.

Good to hear it’s another winner — really looking forward to it. I find Strand’s work to be compulsively readable, and always have a good time with it.

I read the ARC a while back and loved it!

[RonClinton]

It should be as that was part of the 2020 book club. That's probably why you saw a copy on eBay already. I believe it was the January book and because they were slammed with so much coming in at the same time they sent 2 books out at the same time to the book club . Cold Dead Hands and Home. So the single orders should be shipped soon I would imagine. Its a great book. The art work is pretty good as well.

Ah. Okay, that explains it — thanks.

Good to hear it’s another winner — really looking forward to it. I find Strand’s work to be compulsively readable, and always have a good time with it.

[bookworm 1]

Dan, how about Jeff Strand’s COLD HANDS? I see a copy of the S/L HC that somehow landed on eBay, but have heard nothing about the copy I have on order. Are copies shipping soon?

It should be as that was part of the 2020 book club. That's probably why you saw a copy on eBay already. I believe it was the January book and because they were slammed with so much coming in at the same time they sent 2 books out at the same time to the book club . Cold Dead Hands and Home. So the single orders should be shipped soon I would imagine. Its a great book. The art work is pretty good as well.

[RonClinton]

Dan, how about Jeff Strand’s COLD HANDS? I see a copy of the S/L HC that somehow landed on eBay, but have heard nothing about the copy I have on order. Are copies shipping soon?

[Dan Hocker]

Shipping queue is slammed at the moment. We'll hopefully be wrapping up shipping 20th Century Ghosts in the next couple of days, but that's just in time for us to need to ship Later by Stephen King. After that I've got 2 other publishers books to knock out really quickly. Other Sandboxes and Hope & Miracles. Then it'll be the March book club book. After that I'm not 100% sure on the order Night Eternal, Home, Cold Dead Hands, Chart of Darkness, and Little Girls are all here and ready to ship.

[joejets]

I think those beautiful slipcased copies of "The Night Eternal" are awaiting shipping too. While we're at it, any idea when limiteds and lettered of Best of CD vol. 2 will be shipping?

[sholloman81]

I know that nothing is set in stone; however, I am wondering if you can tell us what the next few items in the shipping que may be. I am especially interested to hear if you have any idea as to when "Home" by Matthew Costello will begin shipping as it has been removed from the production updates page for awhile. As always, thanks for any info that you can provide!

[Dan Hocker]

Yes, through Hard Case in an edition of 2,500 copies which is sold out.

Ahh yea we won't be producing a case for that, since we couldn't get any copies to sell as well. Maybe if they end up producing a more mass market hardcover like they did with Joyland.

[slayn666]

I doubt it's viable for CD to make a slipcase for an edition of less than 3,000 (counting both signed and unsigned). I'd love to be wrong, though!

[pumpheel]

Yes, through Hard Case in an edition of 2,500 copies which is sold out.

[Dan Hocker]

Hi CD, noticed your email today regarding the aftermarket slipcase for the paperback version of Stephen King's "Later". Will you also be producing a slipcase for the hardcover version as well? I'm assuming no but figured that I would ask to be safe.

Is there a mass market hardcover being released?

[sholloman81]

That'd be pretty sweet. As it stands, I can't really justify paying 2x (realistically, almost 4x) the cost of the book for something to protect that book.

Yeah, that's my feelings as well, especially to protect a non-limited edition paperback. At least with the hardcover there is a limitation (even for the trade); so, to me, it would be much more worthwhile to have something to protect the hardcover as opposed to a mass-published paperback.