This is the final update before Xmas and the New Year, and I wanted to say a huge thanks to everyone who has supported the press this year. It’s been mind-blowing to see the support of both customers and followers and whilst I had hoped to have two books delivered this year I’m glad I got The Blade Itself out.
It’s absolutely my dream to publish titles like this and work on creating special versions of my favourite books. I don’t take this for granted, and hope everyone see’s at the very least the effort I put into each book.
I’m incredibly busy at the moment juggling numerous things and tyring to get certain things tied up before the New Year. But not too busy not to give you all a quick round up on the books we have in production:
The Blade Itself
We have found a printer near Tommy in the US and the Cover Print proof has been approved and they have all been printed. Tommy will be signing them over the Christmas period and they’ll be going up for sale early in the New Year.
As mentioned this is limited to 50 copies for sale, and are 16inches x 20inches (sorry for not using metric Europeans, but a huge portion of my customers are North American) in size and are Giclee printed on Hannemuhle German Etching Cotton.
It’s such an incredibly striking image, and I’m so pleased we got to use it for the dustjacket of the standard edition – I think Joe’s wife Lou summed it up with “I’ve never seen a dustjacket like it”! Amazing work from Tommy.
The Fifth Season
I have now taken delivery of all the Lettered Edition boxes and they look great.
Due to the non-uniform size of the agate slices (damn natural stone!) we dropped the circular engraving on the box as it wouldn’t have looked right with some of the stones.
The spine has been improved with a beautiful piece of rosewood for the amethyst and king design! See for yourself! Not the most professional picture, but all I can work with today.
