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seanan_mcguire ([personal profile] seanan_mcguire) wrote2013-04-11 08:01 am

Counting and cleaning and mailing, oh my.

Yesterday, the very last of the Wicked Girls T-shirts (a reprint, since the original shirt had been damaged in the printing process) went into the mail. One shirt has been returned to me because the address was wrong (we're trying to contact that person now), and some international shirts may still be in the process of getting where they're going, but apart from that, we're finally finished. (As an addendum, if you have not received a shirt, and you should have received a shirt, please mail the merch address as soon as possible. Right now, we have some overruns and extras, so there's a chance we can make things right. This isn't going to be the case forever, and processing refunds is tedious. And yes, we're going honor system with this, because how the hell am I supposed to prove that you don't have something? I can't afford that many plane tickets.)

As of today, I'm still packaging and shipping Wicked Girls posters. All the signed/numbered posters have been spoken for, although some "normal" posters are still available. I'm going to have to rethink my shipping costs after this batch; at this point, mailing a poster overseas is more than $10 USD. It sucks, because I've been trying to keep costs as low as I can, but there's only so much that I can afford to do. (Everyone who has a poster pending will get it for the originally stated shipping cost.)

Yesterday, I mailed a restock of Red Roses and Dead Things to CD Baby—they should have the disks available for purchase by the beginning of next week—and counted the remaining stock in my home. As of right now, there are 64 copies of this album remaining in back stock, and I am not planning to reprint for at least a year. That means that when these are gone, the album goes to officially out of print, and there won't be any more for quite some time, if ever. This is partially a cost issue and partially a storage issue, and both are connected to the same exciting development:

I'm reprinting Stars Fall Home.

I'm reprinting Stars Fall Home with a new cover and a bonus track ("Continental Divide") and the whole thing has been remastered and oh my sweet Great Pumpkin you guys, it sounds amazing. Like, the remastered "Sycamore Tree" is just heartbreaking, it's so good. The current target for me having albums in-hand is the start of May, and since I'm going to need someplace to put them, it's Red Roses and Dead Things' turn to take a little break.

I'm going to have copies of Stars Fall Home again.

I'm so happy.

[identity profile] qnofhrt.livejournal.com 2013-04-11 03:08 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm reprinting Stars Fall Home with a new cover and a bonus track ("Continental Divide") and the whole thing has been remastered and oh my sweet Great Pumpkin you guys, it sounds amazing

Huzzah! Will there be a pre-order?

[identity profile] muffin-song.livejournal.com 2013-04-11 03:10 pm (UTC)(link)
How would I go about ordering one of the regular Wicked Girls posters? (my apologies if I missed something before).

Also excited about Stars Fall Home being reprinted!

[identity profile] tsukara.livejournal.com 2013-04-11 03:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Omigosh "Continental Divide" *and* re-mastered everything else?! I am so on board withthat!

[identity profile] groblek.livejournal.com 2013-04-11 03:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Huzzah for the reprinting! We'll have to pick up a couple of copies when they come out - one for us and one for the friends who currently have our copy on extended loan. You see, they've been teaching their daughter to be an apex predator, so of course she needed to learn "Evil Laugh." Because a toddler chorus of "Ha ha ha ha DIE" is exactly what the world needs.... :)

[identity profile] seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com 2013-04-11 03:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Sweet gods above and below, no. The idea of trying to mail that many CDs makes me break out in hives. Copies will be available from filk dealers and through CD Baby.

[identity profile] seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com 2013-04-11 03:36 pm (UTC)(link)
You would send an email via my website contact form, and we can roll from there. :)

[identity profile] seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com 2013-04-11 03:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Okay, that? Is fantastic.

[identity profile] naath.livejournal.com 2013-04-11 03:41 pm (UTC)(link)
ooooh, Stars Fall Home!

International shipping is a total pig. :(
ginger: (my take on the world)

[personal profile] ginger 2013-04-11 03:48 pm (UTC)(link)
GLORY DAY AND HAIL! The only song I've heard off Stars Fall Home is "Downhome Aphrodite" and hot damn, that one is enough to have me waiting to order a copy, even if I didn't fully expect to love the rest of the album.

Will you be selling the overrun/extra shirts? I got mine and wear it all the dang time, but I'd be tempted to buy one for a friend too.
Edited 2013-04-11 15:50 (UTC)

[personal profile] hms42 2013-04-11 03:55 pm (UTC)(link)
I look forward to getting the new version of Stars Fall Home. (And I will be in touch with a filk dealer so that its available on the east coast, hopefully in time for the memorial day conventions (and definitely for Conterpoint.))

[identity profile] seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com 2013-04-11 04:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Agreed. I am not happy about needing to increase my rates. :(

[identity profile] seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com 2013-04-11 04:01 pm (UTC)(link)
I will, once it's been long enough that I'm 100% sure that no one is going to loom out of the shadows going "But IiiiiIiiIiii never got MINE!"
ginger: (my take on the world)

[personal profile] ginger 2013-04-11 04:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Awesome. :D

[identity profile] seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com 2013-04-11 04:02 pm (UTC)(link)
It will not be available anywhere in time for the Memorial Day conventions, as I will be releasing the album at OASIS, which is Memorial Day, and will not be making the CDs available for bulk order until I get home from there.
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[personal profile] reedrover 2013-04-11 04:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you ever so much! I've been stalking Ebay for copies of Stars Fall Home for my friends for ages. I would love to tell them to just go buy their own copies.

[identity profile] spectralbovine.livejournal.com 2013-04-11 04:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Wait, it's possible for "Sycamore Tree" to sound better?

[identity profile] bookblather.livejournal.com 2013-04-11 04:27 pm (UTC)(link)
OH THANK GOD my copy of Stars Fall Home disappeared about a week ago and I've been tearing my hair out. THANK YOU SO MUCH. I know reprinting it must be a ton of work, but I for one am really, really happy.

[identity profile] kaberett.livejournal.com 2013-04-11 05:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you, this was what I was wanting to ask :-)

[identity profile] kaberett.livejournal.com 2013-04-11 05:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Wanna share shipping costs? ;)

[identity profile] kaberett.livejournal.com 2013-04-11 05:17 pm (UTC)(link)
+1 :D

[personal profile] hms42 2013-04-11 05:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Ok. Then I will be looking to make arrangements (post Oasis) for stock to make it to Conterpoint for Tales from the White Hart.

[identity profile] ladymondegreen.livejournal.com 2013-04-11 05:32 pm (UTC)(link)
First you salt the ground around the tree with crack ... no, probably not.

[identity profile] dornbeast.livejournal.com 2013-04-11 07:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Absolutely not! Cocaine is an anesthetic and stimulant.

Now, if you used hallucinogens...

[identity profile] georgiamagnolia.livejournal.com 2013-04-11 07:55 pm (UTC)(link)
OMG!YAY

I have been hoping for this SO HARD. Where do I prepay?

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