SST Publications

[swintek]

I still haven't seen my books that I got shipping notification for back on February 21st.

I'm going to send off an email and ask Paul if I should be worried. Never had anything take this long before so I'm hoping it's just an anomaly.

My books finally just showed up. Over 8 weeks- crazy. Hopefully yours- and anyone else's- do as well.

[TacomaDiver]

My shipment of Cold in July finally arrived! Just over 2 months from when I first received the shipping notice...definitely the longest I've waited for a package to arrive, by far.

I was worried about the condition the book would arrive in after all this time, but the book and box were both fine. Hopefully everyone else still waiting receive their copies this week as well.

Awesome! Fingers are crossed mine arrives soon!

[TacomaDiver]

My copies just arrived today after about 9 1/2 weeks . Seems to be the new normal. The postal service in the UK seems to be a huge mess the last couple of years.Â

Glad to hear it arrived! I still haven't seen anything but I always hope every time I open my mail box that there will be a little key in there for a package locker.

[Chuggers]

When I ordered the SST Sampler Pack 1 it arrived in less than a week (Maryland), so I'm assuming there was some problem with this specific batch of books in shipping. Unboxing vids for Cold in July were on YouTube shortly after the shipping notifications were sent, so it wasn't all copies that were affected.


Did anyone here order the Sampler Packs? I got the first but skipped the second, curious what came in those. In the first set I received Big Lizard, The Bank, The Living Dead (PC) and Chasing the Boogeyman (PC).

I got that same sampler pack. Doubles on three of them, only new to me title was Big Lizard. Realized I should probably stop with the sampler pack grab bags (which is exactly what I said after the Thunderstorm bags earlier this year)

[sholloman81]

When I ordered the SST Sampler Pack 1 it arrived in less than a week (Maryland), so I'm assuming there was some problem with this specific batch of books in shipping. Unboxing vids for Cold in July were on YouTube shortly after the shipping notifications were sent, so it wasn't all copies that were affected.


Did anyone here order the Sampler Packs? I got the first but skipped the second, curious what came in those. In the first set I received Big Lizard, The Bank, The Living Dead (PC) and Chasing the Boogeyman (PC).

I passed on the sampler pack as I've ordered most of what SST has put out recently anyway. That being said, your haul is amazing. I purchased all of those titles except The Bank and would have loved to have seen the discount the sampler pack provided on them.

[Boggle Champion]

When I ordered the SST Sampler Pack 1 it arrived in less than a week (Maryland), so I'm assuming there was some problem with this specific batch of books in shipping. Unboxing vids for Cold in July were on YouTube shortly after the shipping notifications were sent, so it wasn't all copies that were affected.


Did anyone here order the Sampler Packs? I got the first but skipped the second, curious what came in those. In the first set I received Big Lizard, The Bank, The Living Dead (PC) and Chasing the Boogeyman (PC).

[sholloman81]

My copies just arrived today after about 9 1/2 weeks . Seems to be the new normal. The postal service in the UK seems to be a huge mess the last couple of years. 

I sure hope that's not the new normal. I didn't order Cold in July, but I did order the Pallbearer's Club which shipped just prior to Cold, and I received that book in a just over a week, which is super-fast for an SST shipment as I live in Arizona and always select the standard non-tracking option. To hear that Cold is taking so much longer is a bit weird. Hopefully, it was just an issue with a specific pallet being scanned incorrectly or misplaced and not some new normal with Royal Mail, which does seem to have these issues pop-up from time to time.

[bookworm 1]

Thanks for trying to set my mind at ease.

I know that untracked Royal Mail to the US says they aim for 42 day delivery, but I've never experienced that before. Paul was going through some family things, so maybe the actual mailing of the parcels was delayed. I know other publishers have taken weeks after generating a tracking number (your order has shipped!) before actually mailing the item.

My copies just arrived today after about 9 1/2 weeks . Seems to be the new normal. The postal service in the UK seems to be a huge mess the last couple of years. 

[Sock Monkey]

Received an advanced pre-order notice from SST yesterday. Anybody grabbing this book? Not sure if it is ok to list the title or not; so, I'm going to hold off (but I do see the book listed among the SubPress pre-orders so perhaps it's ok?). I'm grabbing it as I don't currently own a copy of this title and I have all of the other books by this author that SST has produced so far and want to keep my set intact.

I get this author's SST books through Camelot so I'll be picking it up through them.

[sholloman81]

Received an advanced pre-order notice from SST yesterday. Anybody grabbing this book? Not sure if it is ok to list the title or not; so, I'm going to hold off (but I do see the book listed among the SubPress pre-orders so perhaps it's ok?). I'm grabbing it as I don't currently own a copy of this title and I have all of the other books by this author that SST has produced so far and want to keep my set intact.

[Ben Staad]

Congrats! I'm sure it was worth the wait.

My shipment of Cold in July finally arrived! Just over 2 months from when I first received the shipping notice...definitely the longest I've waited for a package to arrive, by far.

I was worried about the condition the book would arrive in after all this time, but the book and box were both fine. Hopefully everyone else still waiting receive their copies this week as well.

 

[Boggle Champion]

My shipment of Cold in July finally arrived! Just over 2 months from when I first received the shipping notice...definitely the longest I've waited for a package to arrive, by far.

I was worried about the condition the book would arrive in after all this time, but the book and box were both fine. Hopefully everyone else still waiting receive their copies this week as well.

[TacomaDiver]

SST's shipments have always been surprises. I've gotten them in a few days, a week, two weeks. But never two months (week is fast approaching.) I had books from Blackstones, Goldsboro, and Waterstones very recently only take about 9 days to get here. And then some random books from some of the UK YA imprints take two days (but they ship those DHL for some random reason.)

It's not just international shipping, I have had some bizarre shipping times domestically, even after COVID. Priority Mail still gets stuck in LA for weeks at a time, and sometimes Centipede (Jerad is literally down the road from me) has take over a week to get here.

[swintek]

Yeah, same experience with his shipping boxes- they always look rough. Luckily, he packs the books well, so- no issues. I do wonder why SST's books do take so long to get over here as opposed to PS, or Sarob, Tartarus, etc: I always get those pretty darn quickly. Don't think I'm paying more either. Incidentally, that previous SST book I referenced above that took over six weeks to get here (I believe, ultimately, it was 8): I had emailed Paul and he quickly sent out a replacement, with my same number since it was in a series. Then, of course, 2 weeks later- I got the original shipment. We decided that I would cross out one of the duplicate numbers- which hurt, but had to be done. I then threw it in, gratis, with another book I sold to someone. I felt like an ass for complicating things so much, and it was right after that that Paul sent out a general email basically saying that he couldn't be jumping the gun replacing books that might eventually show up, and that we needed to give things more time. All by way of saying: I'm just hanging in there for now, hoping they show up.

[TacomaDiver]

Once I hear something, I'll be sure to update here.

Like I said, I usually don't worry - and knock on wood - haven't ever had an order go missing from anyone - but six weeks is a bit longer than normal.

And like Chuggers above, I have had some BEAT TO HELL boxes from Paul before. I don't know what the box manufacturers are like over there, but I think he should find a new one - they're pretty flimsy.