{"id":684,"date":"2011-02-19T16:08:13","date_gmt":"2011-02-19T06:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/?p=684"},"modified":"2017-11-05T08:03:48","modified_gmt":"2017-11-05T08:03:48","slug":"dragon-bones-not-yet-shipping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/offtopic\/getting-published\/684","title":{"rendered":"Dragon Bones Not Yet Shipping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class=\"g2image_float_left\" src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&#038;bc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;nou=1&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=D08504&#038;t=onepeomancul-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as4&#038;m=amazon&#038;f=ifr&#038;asins=9881900255\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>Amazon US was scheduled to start shipping Dragon Bones this week, but it&#8217;s still being printed.  They sent out a message to everyone who&#8217;d pre-ordered, apologising that they hadn&#8217;t been able to find the book and asking them to confirm if they still wanted Amazon to track it down.  If the reader didn&#8217;t confirm within one month, and if the book isn&#8217;t ready to ship by then, Amazon would cancel the order.<\/p>\n<p>As a buyer, I think that&#8217;s great customer service.  As a writer, it scares me that I&#8217;m now going to lose the hundred plus readers who had already put their money up.<\/p>\n<p>This is a message to all of you who placed an order that the book is on its way.  I&#8217;m new to the publishing process, so I don&#8217;t know exactly where the hold up is, but I approved the final version a month ago after a few iterations with the editor to make sure it was word perfect.  I can only think that the printer has a queue of books waiting to be printed and that one month isn&#8217;t sufficient to print and ship.<\/p>\n<p>The good news is that I still enjoy reading Dragon Bones and if I can enjoy it even after a couple of years of edits, people who are interested in Bhutan should find it worth the wait.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll keep this blog updated with news of delivery, but feel free to leave me a message if you have questions.  In the meantime, you can read an <a href=\"http:\/\/blacksmithbooks.com\/Dragon_Bones_11-19.pdf\" title=\"the first 9 pages\">excerpt<\/a> on my <a href=\"http:\/\/blacksmithbooks.com\/9789881900258.htm\" title=\"Blacksmith Books\">publisher&#8217;s<\/a> website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon US was scheduled to start shipping Dragon Bones this week, but it&#8217;s still being printed. They sent out a message to everyone who&#8217;d pre-ordered, apologising that they hadn&#8217;t been able to find the book and asking them to confirm if they still wanted Amazon to track it down. If the reader didn&#8217;t confirm within&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/offtopic\/getting-published\/684\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dragon Bones Not Yet Shipping<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[43],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1737,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions\/1737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}