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LAZARUS Update for April 16
Hello people!
Here is the latest update on when YOU will receive your copy of LAZARUS.
LAZARUS will be ready THIS week (April 18-22) and will be sent out the following week. I am allowing for time for the books to get to my house from Kansas, where the printer is.
The rest of this entry is just narrative for those of you who are invested in this process.
I spoke to Central Plains Book Manufacturing this week. (In case I never said so before, they are the people who are printing LAZARUS. They are located in Kansas.) To be perfectly honest, I am not one hundred percent pleased with the communication between us. However, I realize that some of my concerns are due to the fact that I am a first-time publisher/novelist, and I am getting used to the fact that some things aren’t in my control.
At any rate, a month ago I told them that I absolutely HAD to have LAZARUS in my hands by the end of the month. Well, the good news is that they said LAZARUS would be ready this week, perhaps as soon as Monday. The bad news is that it will take about four days for LAZARUS to reach me via freight. That means it is highly unlikely that the novel will be ready in time for my Black House event this Thursday.
I am very disappointed by that news because I really wanted the Georgetown Community to be among the first to be able to support this novel. I lived in the Black House myself, and we hosted self-published authors there while I lived there, too! But, I guess everything happens for a reason. We will just have a great discussion about the writing process, those who have read the ebook can share their thoughts, and we’ll make plenty of connections. I’ll also heavily promote my launch party at the event.
In the event that the books come after the Black House event, but before Saturday, I will set up a table and sell books at the Step Show on Saturday night. At least it will still be at Georgetown so that would be pretty meaningful.
In any event, the books WILL be here by April 30, so any of you planning on attending the launch party at Takoma Station won’t be disappointed.
Thank you ALL for your support, whether you bought the novel in December or if you bought it this week! I really appreciate all that you have done to talk up this novel among your friends, to share my website, to just pass along the word. Every mention of LAZARUS or Old Gold Soul is priceless to me.
Keep on visiting the site!
Posted by Rashid on April 16, 2005 9:22 AM