Adventure & sourcebook for D&D 5th Edition by Gregory A. Wilson, with contributions from many speculative fiction and RPG writers
The interior pages look great, and we are awaiting the physical sample proof on the cover, which we expect next week!
If it's acceptable, we're printing!
Thanks again to everyone!
Brian, Eric, Rich and Chris
Dealing with our printer on this project has presented challenges we haven't had to deal with before: big time zone differences, translation and terminology issues, pandemic delays and a resulting staff turnover, differences in technical specifications, etc...
That been said... we're happy to say that after a bunch of troubleshooting and multiple revisions (especially to the cover), we expect to see some proofs sent to us next week from the folks in Lithuania! The purple strip represents where the leather spine wrap is going. It's not going to be purple, but a dark brown. The yellow letters will be a gold foil stamp.
We'll post images of the proofs once we have them!
Thank you again, everyone, for your patience with us on this project.
Brian, Rich, Eric and Chris
Alligator Alley Entertainment
Hi everybody!
We are working with the printer on the proof and we are coming across small tweaks as we progress. This will be the nicest product we've ever made, so many of the issues are due to this being our first time with as many design elements are we are using, and we are being deliberate and careful to ensure that we deliver this as close to perfect as possible.
We chose a leather color, and a spine wrap size, and those interacted with the cover as designed, we ended up having to alter the cover to fit. Per Brian, this wasn't just moving the letters, he needed to redesign the front cover altogether. Something about asymmetry in the artwork. I will not pretend to actually understand, but I know he'll make it look great and should have that set up later in the day.
Also, Brian is going the extra mile to sharpen up the gold foil inlay. Once all of the proofing is to everyone's satisfaction, it's off to the races. Somebody once said that if you like sausage, never look to closely at the process, but we want to keep everyone in the loop.
-Eric
Hi Librarians!
In a world without COVID-19, today would be the first day of the Origins Games Fair. You would have your books in hand for a week or two, and we would have them for sale to convention goers. Sadly, this is not the situation.
Our printer resumed work about twenty days ago. They had a backlog and some disruption, but two weeks ago we were assigned a new representative to assist us. We cleaned up some paperwork and verified the file upload. This printer's capabilities for this kind of work is excellent and we've seen other beautiful special edition books they produced for other game companies.
I wanted to announce that we have a proof today, but we don't as of yet. I am hopeful for information on that tomorrow. So we will be able to take a look at the files, verify that everything appears as we like and get it on the press ASAP. Once that starts, the biggest variable will be customs, but I don't expect too much trouble for books.
Here are some of the details of the production level we are going for. Nice, heavy, matte paper for the four color interior, silk bookmarks, leather spine with gold-foil title lettering on both the spine and the laminated matte cover.
We've all seen the PDF, so I am confident this is going to be a gorgeous title.
Thank you so much for helping Gregory and the Alligator Alley Entertainment team bring this project to life!
Have fun,
Eric Wiener
Alligator Alley Entertainment
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