In transit
Apr. 14th, 2004 04:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
skyringI picked up the printed copies yesterday from Officeworks. Took them an extra hour or so while I moped about the shop looking at software and printers and stuff. Finally they had the books, a stack of six, ready for collection and as they processed my credit card I had a quick flick through. Not too bad. The photographs came out better than on my little inkjet, and they'd expanded the 6"x9" format to A4/letter, so the font was nice and big without affecting the formatting none.
So the physical format was fine, but like any writer, it's the words that matter, and I fear that mine are a little weak. sure there's a few jokes, but there's far too much that is boring as butter - where we stopped for lunch, what our accomodation was like etc.
It is also missing the Maori Wars Appendix, and without the Maori Wars, a lot of the early material is left hanging.
It could have more Lord of the Rings in it - the title promises a fair amount.
Oh well. It's out of my hands now. I registered ten copies and printed six, but (as usual) I forgot which BCIDs had been sent until it was too late to check. Two went off to New Zealand where the Christchurch folk are having their own convention, and I remembered to get those numbers, but the four copies going to St Louis are a bit of a guess, and I'll have to wait until someone makes a journal entry on them before I know if I've picked the correct ones.
Busy checking the FedEx tracking system every half hour or so. The St Louis ones are probably over the Eastern Pacific now, but the Christchurch package hasn't left Sydney yet. The estimated delivery times are still OK, but.
All told, each copy cost me about $40. I hope somebody likes the dam' things!
Pete, pensive and apprehensive
So the physical format was fine, but like any writer, it's the words that matter, and I fear that mine are a little weak. sure there's a few jokes, but there's far too much that is boring as butter - where we stopped for lunch, what our accomodation was like etc.
It is also missing the Maori Wars Appendix, and without the Maori Wars, a lot of the early material is left hanging.
It could have more Lord of the Rings in it - the title promises a fair amount.
Oh well. It's out of my hands now. I registered ten copies and printed six, but (as usual) I forgot which BCIDs had been sent until it was too late to check. Two went off to New Zealand where the Christchurch folk are having their own convention, and I remembered to get those numbers, but the four copies going to St Louis are a bit of a guess, and I'll have to wait until someone makes a journal entry on them before I know if I've picked the correct ones.
Busy checking the FedEx tracking system every half hour or so. The St Louis ones are probably over the Eastern Pacific now, but the Christchurch package hasn't left Sydney yet. The estimated delivery times are still OK, but.
All told, each copy cost me about $40. I hope somebody likes the dam' things!
Pete, pensive and apprehensive
