These exist!

In print! In digital! In kindles! If you don't have one yet, you should get on that:

The versions are slightly different: I had to take out a lot of images to get the Kindle one down to an appropriate size, but we had to cut a bunch of text (sometimes pages of it) for the print edition, and for the Kindle version all of those articles are restored to something like what the author originally sent me. Also the Kindle cover has the title in a different spot. Also it's less likely to end up in the bathroom.

Yes I know your books go in the bathroom. You don't have to pretend. A digital edition will be available from our store, probably by this week. Anyway that's it for people who didn't back the Kickstarter. Go read one of the Hello posts you skipped.

For the Kickstarter folk:

They're Almost Ready for Pickup

 

If you're a Kickstarter backer who chose one of the pickup options—either Ann Arbor or Royal Oak—you just got an email from me. We are rush-shipping four boxes to me as soon as they're off the presses so I can have copies to you fine folk before the holiday weekend. This was expensive so I don't have a lot extra, but if you've decided all of a sudden that you don't want to wait for the mail for your Kickstarter copy and can be in Royal Oak or Ann Arbor this Wednesday night, email me…soon.

The rest of you are welcome to come. The two pickup joints again on Wednesday, July 3:

• Wolverine State Brewing, 2019 W Stadium Blvd, Ann Arbor MI, 48103 from 5pm to at least 9pm. Hosted by Matt Demorest of HomeSure Lending, and the book's sponsor. Matt's buying the first round, though due to EXTREME family obligations he can't be there. I'll be there. I'll drag some of the other MGoBloggers there too. But if you're buying or refinancing you should talk to Matt not us.
• HopCat Royal Oak, 208 5th Ave, Royal Oak, MI 48067, from 4pm to 7pm, hosted by Gordon Fall. He will be there.

Those are map links fyi.

Bring your Kickstarter backer # and an ID so we don't give your book to some stray horse, who just wandered into a bar in Ann Arbor, and convincingly spoke your name, which he guessed at…look just make the logistical thing easier on me k?

So Check Your Order

As with years past I've made an Online Order Checker. I'll update this daily.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11Mt3bbLI4EHPbcXITPUsFKYr-O1evUx-FGma0pEZlS8/edit?usp=sharing

Mailboxes?

After the holiday weekend, we'll begin the process of mailing out the rest of the Kickstarter copies. The printer will pull out enough for the mailing, and the rest go on a truck to our warehouse in Ann Arbor, whence they'll be distributed to shelves and pre-orders fulfilled. The printer is already printing envelopes with mailing labels, and then begins the process of stuffing.

Stuffing is why there's such a long spread between when the first and last books arrive: there are thousands of them, and we need to be correct, and there are only so many books so many employees can stuff in a day. They'll go from there to a mail house, and go out in batches. If you're handicapping, figure the first book goes in the first envelope on the 8th, and the last on the 19th, and then add however long the mail takes. If your address came in after the June 28 deadline, you'll definitely be after the 19th.

We get about 8-10 copies damaged per year. I can't do anything about a bitty bump, but if you get one of these…

Please let me know.