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Pre-Ordering Books from Airship Entertainment
Please read the FAQs below before ordering!
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Questions you may have: Why do you offer pre-ordering? What about these pre-order sketch bookplates I've heard about? What do the sketch bookplates look like? What if I just want to place a pre-order without a sketch? Hey! The sketches were cheaper last time! What is your current publishing schedule? I pre-ordered the Vol.One color edition. Can I change that to a Vol. 9 pre-order? When can I expect my books to ship? What should I do if there is a problem with my order? Why do you offer pre-ordering? We are a tiny, family-run company, and our cash-flow is always a problem. So we have to find creative ways of getting our work in print. Pre-orders help us pay our up-front printer costs. Without money up front, the printer won't print our books! This has been especially important lately, since we’ve recently switched to a new printer in the USA who gives us very high-quality books. They do lovely work. Sadly, what they can’t give us is a whole lot of credit. What about these pre-order sketch bookplates I've heard about? For a limited time before the books come out, we offer a special deal: for the price of the book and an extra $25 you can get a special book plate with an original sketch by Phil. We even let you choose the character. Some guidelines: --Please use the little box near the top of the item detail page to tell us what Girl Genius character you would like in your sketch. If you leave the box blank, Phil will choose for you! (You might wind up with a nice drawing of Agatha, but maybe not. He's a wild man. Last time, he got tired of drawing Agatha and drew all kinds of other characters. So if you care, tell us who you want.) --One character only! --Yes, the character will be wearing clothes. Go ahead and let us know if you want the clothes to be...erm...small. But we're not doing the really super naughty stuff here, 'kay? --The bookplate won’t have glue or stickum of any kind. If you want to glue it into your book, we suggest a nice acid-free library paste. --The bookplate is approx. 5” x 8” (12.5mm x 20.5mm) -- Sketches are available only with Pre-ordered books. Phil ended up doing an astonishing amount of these last time, and it made him cry. This time, we're looking at capping the sketches at around 500. Which will still make Phil cry, but he's determined to do this sketch thing, so he'll just have to tough it out. What do the bookplates look like? How nice of you to ask. Here's a sample. Obviously, your art will be different, because we're talking about original drawings.
What if I just want to place a pre-order without a sketch? You will be able to do that, when we're a bit closer to the release date. Our helpers, who are actually friends and relatives who often don't even get paid, have requested (okay, demanded) that we never mix the two pre-order offers ever again. So...when we stop with the sketch offer, we'll go to the plain pre-order offer. Watch our news page, that's where I'll make the announcement. Hey! The sketches were cheaper last time! Yes, they were. And Phil ended up doing a meeeelyun of them. And the rest of us were kind of overwhelmed by the unexpected difficulites of making sure everybody got the sketches they wanted. Heh. This time, I have been commanded by our office assistant (who is, in fact, the boss of me) to raise the price and cap the number of sketches. I hear and obey. (Edit: She did it to me again, this time around. Seriously, these things aren't getting any cheaper. Phil is going less crazy, though... so I guess it's a good thing.) What is your current publishing schedule? Girl Genius Volumes Nine and Three: Are at the printer for prep right now. They'll be arriving at our Studio in late May, shipping as soon as we get them packed up and mailed out. Girl Genius Volume One (now in color!): Early Summer 2010. We are very sorry for the delay! Please watch our news page for updates. I pre-ordered the Vol.One color edition. Can I change that to a Vol. 9 pre-order? Girl Genius Volume One (now in color!) has been pushed back to early Summer 2010. If you have pre-ordered Volume One, you can either wait, and your order will be shipped to you when we get the books, or you can fill out this form to switch to Volume Nine. Please watch our news page for updates. When can I expect my books to ship? Pre-ordering from us doesn’t mean that you’ll necessarily get your books any faster than if you bought them at a regular store, it just means you can order ahead of time. The Girl Genius Volume Nine and the reprint of Girl Genius Volume Three are expected to ship sometime before the middle of June 2010. If they arrive earlier from the printer they may ship sooner than that, we're actually expecting them to arrive here at our studio in late May. The Girl Genius Volume One Color Edition has been pushed back to a Summer release date. We'll post more information when we have it. More up-to-date news will periodically be posted on our news page. What should I do if there is a problem with my order? If there is any kind of problem with your order, we want to make it right. Please contact us through our new online form at the airshipstore.com and tell us what went wrong. We will sort things out. If you need to mail something back to us, please include your name, address, and a brief note describing the problem. That will help us fix things more quickly. (For other contact information, please see our "Contacting Us" page. |
Girl Genius is written by Professors Phil & Kaja Foglio of TPU, with drawings by Prof. P. Foglio.
Volume One was inked by Brian Snoddy. Volumes Two and Three were colored by Mark McNabb. Volume Four was colored by Laurie E. Smith. Cheyenne Wright is our current colorist. His work begins with Volume Five. Our email and social media assistant is Chris Sorensen.
Girl Genius is a registered trademark of Studio Foglio, LLC. Agatha Heterodyne, Transylvania Polygnostic and all Girl Genius art, characters, design elements and logos™ & ©2000-2022 Studio Foglio, LLC., All rights reserved. Airship Entertainment™ is an imprint of Studio Foglio LLC, and publishes Girl Genius Graphic Novels on a yearly basis. Look for them in your favorite bookstore!
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