Lividian Publications

August 2020 Production Updates!

Revival Artwork Portfolio Updates:
As I reported last month, my local printer has completed the art prints for the oversized Deluxe Artwork Portfolio for Revival by Stephen King, and they turned out beautifully. The signature sheets from François Vaillancourt are also completed. The actual portfolios are running behind schedule, but my case maker has promised the Lettered Edition Portfolios will be here in approximately three weeks and the Limited Edition Portfolios will be here in September.

20th Century Ghosts Limited Edition Update:
The signed and slipcased Limited Edition hardcover of 20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill has been sent to the printer! They’re in pre-production now, which includes making a dummy book for the slipcase maker and they hope to have the dummy book completed this month. The dummy book is a hand-made blank book that uses the same materials as the real books, so the slipcase maker can get started sizing the slipcases without having to wait on the real, finished books.

Unfortunately, because Vincent Sammy lives in South Africa and their postal system was restricted to only medical supplies for the last few months, he wasn’t able to sign the signature sheets for the Limited Edition. We waited as long as we could, but it just wasn’t possible.

I had new sheets printed last month for Joe Hill and Christopher Golden to sign. Chris is already done and Joe is working on those now. They should be ready just in time for when the printer needs them. (In case anyone is wondering, the original sheets were headed to Vincent Sammy first since he is overseas and they had not been signed by anyone. I always start with the contributors who are outside the US first since there’s more chance of something going wrong in transit.)

A decision had to be made, whether to delay the book to 2021 or try to keep moving on our planned schedule, and I decided to stick to the schedule. Now we just have to see if the printer and slipcase maker are able to deliver on time since their scheduled production times are the longest I’ve ever received from them.

20th Century Ghosts Lettered Edition Update:

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