Teraport Wars Pre-orders Opening Tuesday
Posted September 1st, 2008 by Howard TaylerWe will open worldwide pre-orders for Schlock Mercenary: The Teraport Wars on Tuesday, September 2nd at 8:00am Mountain Time.
The book is $25.00, plus shipping and handling. If you want a numbered, customer-choice sketch edition, it’s $35.00+s&h.
Sketch editions will be available until at least Friday morning at 8:00am, so you have three full days to order one of those. If we haven’t hit 1,000 by then, we’ll keep sketch editions available until we do.
If you crazy people order more than 1,000 between Tuesday morning and Friday morning, well… Sandra will have to let me draw in all of them because that is much less complicated than refunding money would be. Let’s show her who’s boss.
We ship just about anywhere in the world, including APO addresses. We’ve shipped product to all seven continents and to at least 40 countries. It should go without saying that we’ve shipped to all 50 United States, but I just counted to make sure. Yup. We’ve only shipped to eight out of ten Canadian provinces, though, so those of you hailing from Prince Edward Island or Newfoundland & Labrador need to get with the program. I’m not sure how the system tracks U.S. or Canadian Territories, but I suspect those of you in the Mariana Islands and Nunavut also remain unrepresented.
We plan to ship these books in six weeks, beginning on October 9th.
If you pre-ordered your book at Comic-Con, and I told you that you had an “advance copy,” your book will go into the mail on Saturday. I’m sorry it’s not in the mail yet! I still need to create the uber-cool Customer Choice Sketch Edition stamp, and until I know the exact number of books I’ll be sketching, I can’t. But I’ll have a number come Friday.
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September 1st, 2008 at 10:11 am
Shiny! Fitting cap to a great long weekend. Thanks, Howard!
September 1st, 2008 at 1:18 pm
After my joking about the sock-doll zombie, I’m not sure I feel all that safe tempting her wrath…
September 1st, 2008 at 5:58 pm
Ah… the perfect news to come home to. Especially after a twelve hour on a post-surgery unit. On a holiday.
September 1st, 2008 at 7:39 pm
i need a bundle deal of all books released so far … $60 or so should be ok for a whole schlock set. buying books one at a time is meh.
if fox can do an alien quadrology, howard should do a schlock pentathology or something…
September 1st, 2008 at 7:44 pm
Was the Antarctic book shipped to McMurdo or to the South Pole?
September 1st, 2008 at 8:30 pm
So, we can pick any old character to be sketched? I’ve never done this before, and am not clear on how choice-y “Customer’s Choice” is.
September 1st, 2008 at 9:48 pm
@zurk: I’d love to take your money in large lumps. Right now all four books will set you back $80 +s&h. Sixty bucks would be a sweet price, but I can’t afford to offer it. Sorry!
@Carnildo: McMurdo. The guy who bought the book took pictures of him sitting in front of the McMurdo station sign… wearing sandals.
@Glen: There will be a list of maybe a dozen options. If you want a commission in the back of your book you pretty much need to see me at a convention, and catch me when I’m not swamped. Then I’m happy to attempt whatever you’d like.
September 1st, 2008 at 10:02 pm
Numbered sketch edition? Get. Out. Of. My. Way.
By the way, Howard — going to Buffalo Range on Saturday. First time in a year and a half. Takin’ some pics, too! Blast Off!
September 1st, 2008 at 10:18 pm
Hey – I may have been wearing sandals, but I also had on a Santa hat, and a t-shirt with Rule #37 sewn on the front to celebrate the proper Christmas spirit. I spent a lot of time walking between buildings in sandals because I was too lazy to put on real shoes just to go outside briefly.
September 1st, 2008 at 10:18 pm
At the risk of looking like a fanboy:
Glee.
September 1st, 2008 at 10:25 pm
Proof of Rob Jones’ sandals:
HERE.
September 2nd, 2008 at 5:00 am
Psst, Howard! The blog post should have a link to the shop in it, better yet a link to the page with the ‘add to cart’ button on it. Make it easy for me to order it before I think about the rent this month, not just because I am lazy! ;)
September 2nd, 2008 at 5:47 am
The next blog post will have such links, yes.
September 2nd, 2008 at 7:01 am
Proof I’m not yet awake… it’s 8:50 central, and I’m clicking all over the shop trying to find the new purchase link, and suddenly remember that you aren’t IN central time. Sure enough, the link says 8am MOUNTAIN. What a cruel joke to play on a half-awake person. :P