By ‘personalizations, we mean tell us who to sign it to. You can order as many as you like. You can order them for your friends and relations. They are stiff (as peel-and-stick labels are) and might do well stuck to the inside cover so they don’t obscure part of the page, or they can be stuck to the ‘presentation’ page, which is a blank page in the front of some hardbound books.
Note that I have 40 of this design, which I do quite like. They’re produced by Laurel Ink of Seattle, and you can get them on Amazon. If I should happily run them out of copies, I’ll have to change designs, but I want you guys to have first crack at these before I mention them on Facebook. Go to Dead Tree Books in our Books menu, and you’ll see the button.
I have agonized over this a bit: I don’t charge for signatures in books, which is a tradition of our field, and will always personalize for no extra charge any dead tree book you buy from us, (or elsewhere) but I have to charge something fair for the plates, the mailing, the handling, etc, and all else that goes into making those available.
This is amusing. Russ and I were just talking about how I needed to get you to sign some bookplates to fill out the rest of my hardcover collection! (Russ was home for a whole week! It was the first time he’d made it back in six months!) I’ll have to hope you still have some by the time I get paid in a couple weeks. We sort of, you know, spent every cent we could while he was here. LOL
This is just a great idea, though! Thank you!
Fear not. I got 40 to start with, have sold 6 today, and while somebody with a big collection could hit me hard, I have no hesitation in reordering blank bookplates to meet whatever demand exists. I can’t guarantee the koi pattern, but there’ll be bookplates.
Hi CJ,
Firstly thank you for putting the book plates up. I’d hate to have to ship my 30+ hardbacks to the US and back for them to be signed – not to mention what it would do to the backs of those handling them! So that bookplates is a good way around that. So I put an oder in for a few of the bookplates and I noticed a couple of things that may (or may not) be minor issues.
1) the order quantity text field was a colour on colour that didn’t render on my browser (Safari on a Mac). Or I’ve gone colour blind….
2) the personalisation text window was only six characters wide and popped before the link to Paypal, rather than the more usual location of instructions to the seller which caught me out
Thanks again for the book plate option – I can see that solving a few present options for friends in the future 🙂
well, think of it this way: $2 for postage is WAAAY less than it will cost a fan to get to your next convention appearance to get stuph signed!
Mary