Things are starting to wind down, with a whole bunch of packages winding their way to recipients in the US and Canada. Also the first step of the journey to AUS/NZ, which went to Wayne's freight forwarder and is probably in hand now.

What is missing was that some of the orders ran into a problem in that I sold out of two different books. One, Dungeon Fantasy Companion 3, was because I got a few pre-orders after I'd ordered the first batch of supplies from SJGames. New books have been ordered and I should receive them in a few weeks. This impacts precisely one order.

The other was I ran out of Shields Up, which was 100% my fault. However, I received notice today that the books' label has been printed, which usually means I'll have it in a week or less. There are about 30-35 orders pending this arrival, but with a bit of good fortune we'll see them on the way by the end of the weekend.

Mostly good news here. The UK-printed copies of the four newer books is in ShipQuest's hands...but for some reason instead of giving me 35 copies of Garden of Evil (on top of 31 orders) I got 30. I've sent a polite version of "WTF?" to Mixam and I expect to hear back from them shortly.

That takes care of something like half of the orders; I am arranging for a DHL pickup of the box with a few one-off copies of my books, plus the 16 card decks. I've found that having GQ import the books rather than me ship them to the vendor gets things off to the right foot.

I've asked GQ to start sending out the orders that they can fill from existing stock - maybe 14 of the 30 - but they seem to have a particularly regimented methodology at times, so I'm not sure they'll begin shipment until all the pieces are there. UK and EU orders will go tracked and (to the e

So we're getting closer to the end here, but it may still be a few weeks before the majority of what can be shipped off has been, plus the "must first get to Australia before the seven AUS/NZ books are reshipped."