Happily Ever After
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...Go!
by admin - 22:52 on 19 January 2011
The waiting is over. And the next wait begins.
A final, complete, ultimate, unalterable version of The Bumper Book of Black Isle Snappery has been approved and left with Brian and Norman and their inky cohorts at Dingwall Printers. Paper has been ordered. Printing begins on Monday.
Two hundred copies means 24,000 pages, plus front and back covers on the special super-strength card Andrew negotiated at the last minute. That will take four or five days to churn out of the John Bull Printing Press.
The precious pages will then be loaded into the Dingwall Printers Lear Jet and transported to the bindery where they'll be collated, trimmed and turned into volumes the public can buy for the laughably modest price of £19.95.
This takes two or three weeks, we're told, but less if we're lucky. So we should have the finished article in our hands before February 21. Now we can decide on a date for the launch party.
Also at the planning stage is participation in this year's Black Isle Gathering (they'll update the site soon), the biennial shindig held at Fortrose Academy at the end of September. Andrew is already planning The Black Isle Snappery Calendar, so by then we could have Bumper mugs, T-shirts, mouse mats, postcards and Christmas cards too. The merchandising opportunities are endless.
In fact, it might be difficult to find room on our stall for the book. I'm sure we'll sort something out.
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