We’ve teamed up with TopatoGo to crowdfund a 500-piece puzzle!
The project closes on APRIL 7th, so if you like whimsical worldbuilding, wildly-out-of-proportion animals, and jigsaw puzzles, don’t delay!
A Jigsaw Puzzle!
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Off to the printer
Big Dumb Objects has been sent to the printer.
And it’s about time. Big Dumb time, even.
The cover inset art was done a year ago, and the principal art and story was done five years ago. It was the bonus story which hung us up, and a lot of things went wrong during 2019 and 2020 (including the flooding of my office, and several productivity-impacting health problems), but we finally got that last piece finished a week and a half ago.
From there all I needed to do was assemble the cover, with all the circuits and stuff, write the back cover copy, and clean up some of the interior marginalia. I did all that last week, between December 28th and 30th, and then Sandra assembled the final files for the printer and sent it away.
It feels nice to be finished with that.
Sandra has promised me that on Monday she will unearth the sketches I’ve forgotten about drawing, the ones which outline the covers for books 17 through 20, and I guess it was nice having a two day vacation.
Shop Early, It’s Gonna Get Turbulent
Maybe I’m putting too fine a point on this, but holiday shipping is going to be a mess this year. There are a lot of factors at work, but let’s just set aside the “why” and talk about how to get ahead of it.
Shop Early. If you’ve got online shopping to do, start now. And if you’ve got online shopping to do with us, we’re encouraging your early start by running a sale during October.
- Shiny new poster bundle
- Buy 4 coins, get the 5th Free
- Buy 4 pins, get the 5th Free
- Clearance Section
- 20th Anniversary Stuff (quantities limited, won’t be reprinted)
- And a bunch of other stuff!
And if you’re supporting us on Patreon, look for a special coupon over there, just for you.
In mostly unrelated news, the sabbatical projects are coming along nicely. I’m learning to draw digitally, and we’re making good progress on the very, very behind schedule print project for Big Dumb Objects.
Will the next Schlock Mercenary feature be created digitally? Maybe! I’m not ready to commit to anything yet, because there are still so many things I don’t know how to do.
A Sale! And Shipping in Time for Christmas!
Head over to shop.schlockmercenary.com and use the discount code 2019HOLIDAY between now and December 5th for 10% off anything in our store.
Additionally, we have a bunch of things already on sale, and yes, the coupon bonus will stack, increasing your savings.
If you need your packages to arrive by Christmas, international orders must to be placed by December 4, and US orders must to be placed by December 18.
If you’re ordering t-shirts, please be aware that those have a separate shipping chart. They’re produced on demand, and fulfilled by the printer, and it’s probably already too late for internationally-shipped shirts to arrive by Christmas (the deadline was Nov 25). If you’re shipping shirts to the US you have until December 10th to place orders for by-Christmas delivery.