Episode 322: “… a good point!”

The last month has been a blur of production and shipping book orders. I’m excited to be in the home stretch of shipping The Middle Age hardcovers and now shipping Nibblemancy as well.

Among the tasks on my plate is quality control of the books. When a shipment arrives, I open up each box and inspect every book. It’s a hassle but part of the job. The printer I’ve been using for my game books has done an amazing job with all of them – and I’ve been thinking about using them for future printings of The Middle Age – except their latest batch of reprints were just awful. Just misshapen things… my first thought was that their binding equipment was damaged. This started a dozen emails back and forth with photos and videos and measurements with calipers – and they eventually refunded the printing costs. But when the reprinted reprints arrived, they have just as many problems so the process started all over. Sighhhhhh. I enjoy wearing all the varied hats of indie publishing but sometimes it’s a real test. I will likely share a full report once we have a positive outcome (I love the printer’s work and hope to keep using them and don’t want to slag them). Many, many hours were lost to trying to get these books right which should have been spent packing up orders and creating new stuff.That said, all the while I’ve been squeezing in time to work on the next episodes of The Middle Age including this new one. 🙂

There’s much more fun stuff to report but I didn’t want to slow down delivery of the latest episode any further.

And thanks, as always, to my amazing supporters on Patreon who keep this project going!

— Steve