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Today was the day! The full shipment of WarGods of Olympus books has arrived! The call went out... "Crocs Assemble!" and a band of us gathered to pack them for shipment!
The first 116 books have been packed, as well as 4 cases of books for game stores, and all these are shipping on Monday morning. We have lots more to go, but the process has begun, and we'll be packing and shipping more all week.
A big 'thank you' to the impromptu weekend packing team, including Christopher Farnsley, Brain Roe, Jordan Fisher, and of course Fitz & Felicity!
And last, here are a few pictures we took of the weekend events:
That's all for now - thanks to everyone for their support and patience!
The Croc Team
Happy New Year! We have some exciting news on the Olympus rulebook... the print proofs have arrived! Print proofs are sample prints from the printer, to fine-tune the final product and ensure the final product will be correct. We look these over, make any corrections that are necessary, and then approve them for the final run.
Check out the pics below:
Two Titans help show off the 'wet proof' of the cover, an image printed on the actual press that will do the final run. This one came out a bit dark, so we have submitted a correction for the final print - we should be getting a new (and hopefully final) 'wet proof' of the cover in a few days.
Above, a closeup of a stacke of the interior laser-proofs.
Above are the 'ozalid' proofs of the interior pages - these are not printed on the final press, so they look very dark - but are used to show how the signatures/pages are arranged.
Next up are some pics of the 'dummy', a bound but blank example of the book using the same materials as our final print:
Above is an example of the bound book, on top of the Aegyptus hardcover. It is printed with the same thickness of paper, so as you can see it is a little thinker due to the 56 additional pages.
Also shown is the purple head/tail band, chosen to match the color of the WarGods logo, and provide an attractive finish to the binding:
The proof revisions should be happening in a few days, we'll post a new update when they arrive.
Thanks to everyone for their support, and we hope you are off to a great new year!
-Chris & Felicity FitzPatrick
Greetings Olympus backers!
We've got some great news on the WarGods of Olympus book printing: a print schedule, and a special bonus for book backers! Printing Schedule
Greetings The print files are now safely in the hands of our printer. Below is the schedule they've given us, all in all we can expect all printed copies to arrive about 3 months from now. Keep in mind, these are estimated dates, but they do jobs like this every day, so we have every reason to expect things to go (roughly) according to schedule. Nov 29: 1st Proofs expected - they'll be sending us some physical examples of the pages, so we can check & approve the reproduction quality. Dec 5: Revised proofs expected - these should be the same proofs, with any corrections we've asked for worked in. Dec 12: Print start date! Assuming the above 2 go according to plan, of course! Jan 14: Printing complete, we should receive a couple physical approval copies a few days later by FedEx. Jan 20: Expected date of departure, traveling by ship. Hopefully not a trireme! Feb 21: Expected date of arrival in Indianapolis. Feb 22: Shipping to Kickstarter backers begins!
In the next few weeks we'll be sending out address confirmations emails, to make sure that these all go to the correct address - we realize some backers have changed addresses since this journey began! Hardcover Upgrade:
We've got some another exciting bit of news about the books: we have upgraded ALL of the printed books for Kickstarter backers to HARDCOVER! Yes, it is official - if you are a backer with a printed book coming, it will be a hardcover edition! The cost for us was more, but we feel it is a nice bonus for all of our backers who have stuck with us through the long process of getting the book completed. And a 344 pages, the book will really benefit from the added durability of the hardcover case. The books are being printed by Regent printing, the same company that does the printing for a lot of big game publishers, so we are confident they'll do a great job.
Oh, and here's a picture of what the completed back-and-front cover of WarGods of Olympus looks like:
That's all for now - we'll be back with another update (for backers only) in a couple days with the revised PDF of the entire book, including the cover, edits, and endsheets all added.
Thanks for everyone's support so far!
-Chris & Felicity FitzPatrick