Tuesday
Dec022008
Dirty Pictures update
Tuesday, December 2, 2008 at 5:00AM | in Dirty Pictures - the book
Rolling around on the weekends, racing and photographing cyclocross is really great fun. We could not ask for a better way to spend autumn weekends.
Immediately publishing a book about it is not as fun. The creative process of editing and designing is fantastic, but the details, scheduling and general business-ness of it is not. In fact, it's why I am writing this post at 3:30 AM...checking my FedEx tracking number like it's my investment portfolio (if i actually had an investment portfolio).
Some updates about the book:
– It is extremely unlikely that the book will be here in time for Sunday night's party. The people printing the book just could not get it here it by then. It's locked up in a FedEx truck out by the airport. I just went to the facility. I could almost smell the book...We will have it for sure on Monday. Then again, we were supposed to have it for sure on Friday.
– Due to circumstances beyond our control there might be an additional cost from the printer. This will cause the book to go up in price by a few bucks. We hope to avoid it, but wanted to give you advance warning that the cost might change slightly. We won't know until we hold the proof copies in our grubby little hands.
- If the proofs are perfect, you will be able to order copies on Monday at some point in the afternoon. If the reproduction or printing is off it will delay it a few days. This might push it past the date that guarantees pre-Christmas delivery. Again, we really hope to avoid this, but it is out of our control.
We're not happy about these updates either, trust me. But, we wanted to be transparent about the process and let you know what's going on.
Thank you for your understanding and patience,
pdxcross
Immediately publishing a book about it is not as fun. The creative process of editing and designing is fantastic, but the details, scheduling and general business-ness of it is not. In fact, it's why I am writing this post at 3:30 AM...checking my FedEx tracking number like it's my investment portfolio (if i actually had an investment portfolio).
Some updates about the book:
– It is extremely unlikely that the book will be here in time for Sunday night's party. The people printing the book just could not get it here it by then. It's locked up in a FedEx truck out by the airport. I just went to the facility. I could almost smell the book...We will have it for sure on Monday. Then again, we were supposed to have it for sure on Friday.
– Due to circumstances beyond our control there might be an additional cost from the printer. This will cause the book to go up in price by a few bucks. We hope to avoid it, but wanted to give you advance warning that the cost might change slightly. We won't know until we hold the proof copies in our grubby little hands.
- If the proofs are perfect, you will be able to order copies on Monday at some point in the afternoon. If the reproduction or printing is off it will delay it a few days. This might push it past the date that guarantees pre-Christmas delivery. Again, we really hope to avoid this, but it is out of our control.
We're not happy about these updates either, trust me. But, we wanted to be transparent about the process and let you know what's going on.
Thank you for your understanding and patience,
pdxcross
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