Ben Jonson Memorial Fundraiser: this time for sure, Brain!

[truepenny]

I have finally, despite the best efforts of MS Word and Open Office, finished formatting Unnatural Creatures. The limited edition of 169 copies has been ordered from Lulu for $924.74, which puts our donation balance at $3309.75. Considering how many more copies of Unnatural Creatures there will be than I expected, and how many places they'll be going (Australia! Finland! Greece!), I am going to use some of that money to help with shipping costs. The donation to the Companion Animal Fund will be a minimum of $3,000. If that 309.75 isn't all used up by shipping, the remainder will go to the Fund as well. If shipping costs are more than $309.75, I'll pay the balance.

Between printing time and shipping time, it will probably be two weeks or so before I get the box of books, and then it may take as much as a week for me to sign and ship everything, although I promise I'll be as efficient as I can. For those of you who did not buy Unnatural Creatures, my plan is to work on the signing and packaging tomorrow, and ship books before the end of the week. (We'll see how that goes, but I'll do my best.)

I know some people have mentioned their willingness to chip in extra for shipping. So for those people, and anyone else who'd like to help with shipping costs, here's a button:

This is 100% voluntary. Your book(s) will be shipped to you whether you contribute here or not. But, like I said, I'm looking at shipping a lot more books than I anticipated, so I'm willing to let people help if they want to. Also, all money that doesn't go to shipping costs will go to the Companion Animal Fund.

This fundraiser has been mind-blowingly successful, and I want to thank all of you again for your participation. I am deeply grateful.

Ben would say it's no more than the respect due a venerable Elder Saucepan, but he would come stand on you all and purr.

Comments

[oursin.livejournal.com]

Can you let me know what shipping to UK will cost? thanks

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Yes. I will figure it out and let you know.

[much-of-a.livejournal.com]

Me too. I'd try to guess, but worry I'd underestimate wildly...

[maidenofirisa.livejournal.com]

The USPS site confuses me a bit. I tried to give about halfway between shipping to Canada (where I am) and Australia for a small package but I could have read the site wrong. Anyway, I hope it helps and one more time, this it's awesome that you are doing this :)

I ordered one yesterday

[dakiwiboid.livejournal.com]

and am very excited about getting my book.

[kitgordon.livejournal.com]

This is great news; I threw a little more cash in the pot. No hurry on sending the chapbook in my case: I have more than enough to read at the moment!

[cissa.livejournal.com]

Please do post if you do another order- I missed this one, but would love to have the book.