The amazingly beautiful 40th anniversary editions of Little, Big are shipping! BUT there are 500 people whose addresses still need to be confirmed before their books can go out. Spread the word to anywhere book lovers might gather.
The most listened to song on the Eurovision YouTube channel during the month of September was Little Big's "Uno," which was supposed to be Russia's 2020 entry.
The song has placed in the top spot on these top-20 lists a total of 10 times, and there are only 21 of these top-20 rankings. It earned this spot in: January, February, March, April, August, September, October, November, and December of 2022, and January of 2023.
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The folks at Deep Vellum are seriously difficult to deal with. They were supposed to receive their books six or seven weeks ago; no update. Supposed to start shipping them out three or four weeks ago; no update. I ask for an update, they say, '20 years of pre-orders, shipping out in order received.' I say, no problem; can I get an estimate? They say, '20 years of pre-orders, shipping out in order received.' I know they're not huge, and I know this project has taken a LONG time to complete. But you'd think they'd be joyful about approaching the finish line, not disappearing and acting like they're doing something wrong. Anything you can do to maybe nudge them into slightly better communication with their customer base?
The most recent update online on the Little, Big site was Feb 4th, three days ago, saying,
February 4, 2023 Please note: Ice storms in Texas shut down the distribution of books last Monday. Deep Vellum hopes to resume packing and mailing pre-orders this coming week, weather permitting.
The last update before that was on January 21st:
Last month there was an unexpected delay with trucking the hardcover edition from the printer to Deep Vellum. Storms, floods and repeated power outages the past couple weeks slowed our California team's work on integrating all the recent address confirmations into our customer database. These latest setbacks are now overcome and Deep Vellum has begun mailing the trade edition. Over the next several weeks their team will package and ship the oldest orders each day, progressing chronologically, until they've distributed all confirmed pre-orders. Tracking will be emailed to each customer at the time of shipment.
There's a delay with the fabrication of the slipcases for the numbered & lettered editions--so we still don't have a clear sense of when these editions will be ready to ship. We will post an update as soon as we know more.
Despite over a thousand address confirmation form submissions in the last 6 weeks, there remain nearly 500 unconfirmed addresses in our order database. If you ordered books between 2004 and December 31, 2021, we need confirmation of your current address to ship:
With a project whose order history spans 18 years, we need to hear from all of you who have pre-ordered, before we can ship your book. We can only ship to those pre-orders whose addresses have been confirmed.
Please confirm or update your complete mailing address and contact info by completing the form at--https://littlebig25.com/Form.shtml
So you know what I know. Deep Vellum are shipping out the books in chronological order, and they believe it will take several weeks to get all the books out. (The packaging is serious, to make sure that the books don't arrive dinged or bashed up, as the books are huge and heavy.) You seem upset that they haven't posted updates, but I'm definitely seeing those two updates on the Little, Big website. Deep Vellum are just a distributor -- the Little, Big Website should be a better source of information. (I've seen on Twitter and Mastodon that some people have received their books.)
I think nobody's celebrating until they are over the finish line.
Let me know when your copy arrives, and what you think of it when it does.