Updates:
Shipping: The books arrived in 6 boxes yesterday, and the Canadian mod team started dismantling, inspecting, and preparing, beginning with the first printing batch and the contributor copies. We’ll have some photographs tomorrow, just ensuring that names and addresses do not appear in the photos we’ve taken. One box had some damaged books, with moderate-to-severe cover folds, and some form of oil damage on three books, likely from the printing press. We’re checking to see if the printer provided a few extra copies beyond our print order, and will alert them once we have a final tally of damages. This will not impact the shipment of the first printing, and from our rough estimate, it shouldn’t impact any of the existing purchases for the second printing. Again, we’ll have an update on that as soon as we’ve finalized a careful examination of the remaining boxes. The books should go out on their journey Monday/Tuesday.
Second Printing: As indicated in the shipping section, we’re going to take a good count and quality inspection of the remaining unopened boxes to ensure we have enough copies to fulfill our 100-copy reprint. We will adjust numbers on the site if we do not have enough to satisfy, and we will be checking in with the printer to at least give them a heads-up. Deluxe editions are awaiting the arrival of our locally-printed vinyl stickers, which should only take a few more days. They should be prepared for shipment by the end of shipping First Printing.Contributor Applications: We received so many applications that we will need to continue sending out acceptances, deferrals, or rejections into tomorrow. Mod Egon made a big push on those, and we have about 16 more emails to send out. For applicants who receive a rejection email, we’re also making a point of indicating strengths, encouragements, and areas we’d like to see focus on for future portfolios. While this makes sending out the emails a little slower than a typical form letter, we want to make sure that each applicant is treated like a person throughout all this, that they aren’t disheartened by the decision, and that they reapply with enthusiasm and growth.
That wraps up our updates for this evening, but I look forward to sharing some photos and progress updates for the last push of this volume. Soon, we’ll announce our list of Vol 2 contributors, and we’ll begin readying the presses for another amazing edition of this labour of love!
Morning reblog, just to say we’re back to work at clearing through boxes and applications alike.