Pre-Order Print update! (Patreon)

Hello everyone,

there‘s some updates on the printed books we wanted to share with you:(SPOILER BUT LONG STORY SHORT: Books will be shipped in Mid November because of printer troubles)

As some of you already know, the print is delayed because the printer was taking their sweet time getting the proofs to us, so that we could give our „GO“ to the final printing process. We know that right know they might be in a lot of stress because of another big event coming up at the end of October, which is why we had made sure to send our data in early enough, but supposedly that didn‘t matter. The first proof they sent was just 5x the cover of Volume 1, which as you might understand doesn‘t really tell us anything about the quality inside, which is what we‘d normally get as a proof. 

(unpleasant surprise nr. 1) The second proof FINALLY reached us yesterday and sadly it was bad news as well.  

(unpleasant surprise Nr. 2: black is not as black as it's used to be (which would be okay for us if everything would be like that from the start) and ink bleeds too much through the paper)

We take great pride in trying to get the best quality for our printed products (even though the demand of our books wasn‘t and still isn‘t that high and thus the ways of printing books limited) and we were so happy with this printing service for the last 7 years. Everyone of our German readers was extremely impressed with how our books turned out, which is exactly what we wanted for the English version as well.

Now it seems that peak capitalism has finally clutched it‘s fist around this part of our life as well. After a talk with our printer today, we found out that they used another printing method (Inkjet instead of Laser), because the one we were using before is slowly being fazed out, due to not being as cost efficient and nearly nobody caring for quality in their printed books anymore. The method they used right now though, doesn‘t work well with the specific paper that we use, and thus the result is not good. They asked if we could change the paper, even if they admitted that it had amazing haptic and looked good, but that is sadly not a possibility as it is one of the lightest paper out there, and changing it would change the weight of the books significantly (and thus the shipping cost, which all of you have already payed and is high enough as it is). So now, since we‘re such old customers, for THIS order, they‘ll go back to the old printing method, but in the future they can‘t guarantee that they‘ll still have the machines for it, which is utterly heartbreaking to us. What does this mean for you?For the pre-orders: We‘ll sadly have to wait for another (hopefully the last) proof and in the worst case the books will reach us about mid November. We‘re still in talks about maybe splitting the order to make sure the books needed for the preorders reach us a bit earlier, but we don‘t know yet if that will work out. We‘re terribly sorry for this delay and we‘d like to repeat that this has never been an issue in the past and this printing service has never been anything short from perfect up until now with their products. We guess times are sadly changing… For future prints of Remembering Gale Volumes: We don‘t know yet. There‘s two alternatives with this printing service as of now: Either they keep the machines (until they break) and offer the old printing method at a higher price (which would mean we have to raise our prices again OTL) We‘ll try to find another printing service to try out until we have to go back in print next time, but we‘re always having our eyes open and our paper seems to be very rare to find. It is also a matter of   money, because a lot of companys won‘t answer us because our orders are not high enough to be worth the „trouble“. We don‘t want to print books out of Europe because this is also a lot of trouble (taxes ect).

This means in the worst case, some things will change in the future prints of Remembering Gale and it‘s breaking our hearts as we loved what we had a lot. We wanted to bring you all up to speed on how things are developing and we hope you understand.

Thanks a lot,Mim & Bob