When told of our printing dilemma and asked for input about possible options, overwhelmingly, the response of those who saw the book was to have a copy of it. A copy exactly like shown at the festival. These responses were after knowing the book would cost more than we originally figured. We have proceeded along that path, looking for a printing company that could produce a small quantity of high quality books. But, the cost is higher, almost double, of what we had estimated originally by printing it ourselves.
Shipping is additional.
Because of the higher price, we have decided to print only 100 copies of the book, each will be hand numbered. We feel it is likely some people will change their minds about the number of books they reserved because of the increased cost, so we are quite confident we will be able to fill each book order that is confirmed by return email. If, however, we are wrong about some folks changing their minds, then we will use the dates of the book reservations and determine the first 100 people who reserved the book as the ones who will receive them. We plan to ship the book in October. Please confirm your order by email.