Shoreland preorder schedule
I’m a big fan of keeping preorders short and sweet…so let’s see how much I can streamline this!
- Tuesday, November 19, noon Eastern time:
- Preorder opens for folks on my mailing list (I’ll send you an email with links to where you can buy either the paper or the electronic book).
- You’ll get the best price of the preorder ($3.00 off either the paper book or the ebook). This price only lasts an hour, so grab it quick!
- The first 300 folks to order the paper book on November 19 will get a little present in their packages. I expect these to go fast, so being on the mailing list and checking your email at noon (Eastern Time) is your best shot at getting the goody (I’ll make it clear if they’re still available, you’ll know before you buy if you’re in time).
- Tuesday, November 19, 1 pm Eastern time:
- General preorder opens for folks not on my mailing list (I’ll have a post here on the website with links to where you can buy the book).
- You’ll get $2.00 off either the paper book or the ebook.
- The first 300 folks to order the paper book on November 19 will get a little present in their packages. (I’ll make it clear if they’re still available, you’ll know before you buy if you’re in time).
- Friday, November 22, noon Eastern time:
- Preorder ends (you won’t be able to buy the paper book from me any more, you’ll need to wait for it to show up on amazon or in your LYS, the book will temporarily be unavailable on ravelry).
- I start stuffing envelopes!
- Tuesday, November 26, onward:
- Paper books ship.
- The electronic book goes live on ravelry at the regular price (if you’ve bought it during the preorder, you’ll get a message letting you know you can download the full version now).
- The paper book will start to be available in other places (like amazon and your LYS) over the next several weeks.
See, short and sweet! If you want the very best price and the best chance to get the nifty little extra I’ve made for the launch, be sure you’re on the mailing list. You can do that right here (you’ll need to be on the list by 9 am on November 19 to get the preorder email):
And just because I know some of the questions folks sometimes have, how about a few preemptive answers:
- Every paper copy of the book includes a unique download code that lets you put the book in your ravelry library for free. Just look inside the back cover and follow the instructions.
- The book costs $21.95 for the paper copy and $21.95 for the electronic copy. The preorder sale will reduce the price by $3.00 (during the mailing list period) or $2.00 (during the rest of the preorder).
- Shipping is $3.00 to the US and $5.00 to Canada. And I hate to do it, but I’m not shipping anywhere else for this book. The shipping is horrifyingly expensive (more than half what the book itself costs), and the rules for the EU’s VAT are too much to navigate for something I do so infrequently. If you’re in the EU or UK, the good folks at Arnall-Culliford Knitwear will have the book very soon and you can grab it from them. And I’m happy to work with your local yarn shop to either get books directly from me or to put them in touch with my overseas distributors. So you’ll still totally be able to get it…just not during the preorder. I know it’s frustrating, but it’s the only practical choice for me this time.
- Preorders will ship out within one week of your order (often sooner, but a week is what I feel comfortable promising), and you’ll get a notification and tracking number when they do.
If you have other questions, leave a comment here and I’ll do my best to answer them!
Hi! For those of us who are new fans, what is the book about?
This one’s all socks! There’s a post over here with more about what’s in it!
Really disappointed you are not shipping direct to the UK this time, BUT with a son and his family settled in Canada, I know exactly where you are coming from re postage rates. Absolutely horrendous. On the upside I can put it on my Amazon wishlist and someone is bound to buy it for me for Christmas! Good luck with the book.
I very much wish I could! But between the postage (about $13 to ship a single book!!), and the EU’s VAT rules (completely unmanageable for my tiny business that sells things directly like once a year…thank goodness ravelry handles it on electronic books & patterns!), it’s just not practical to do it. When I’ve done it in the past, even when I’ve taken a significant loss on the postage for each book, I got huge numbers of folks absolutely outraged at what I was charging for postage…I’m just not up for having people yell at me like that this time.
Luckily, the good folks ACKnitwear will have it within a few days of the launch and will be able to get it to you with ever so much less hair pulling and gnashing of teeth. They’re good folks and I’m delighted they’ll be offering it!
I presume it is also too expensive to ship to Australia? Sadness….
Yeah, the postage was going to be something like $12…that’s more than half the cost of the book! Plus there’s the Australian goods and services tax (which ravelry handles on electronic stuff, because they are amazing and make life so easy for designers) that I am not at all set up to deal with. But I have a distributor in Australia, and that makes it super easy for shops there to get the book.
So it should be available much closer to home very soon!
I am on the mailing list, but I did not get an email for the preorder. 🙁
Oh how odd! Sometimes email is over zealous about helping us out with catching spam. I’ll send you an email with a link in the meantime!
Thank you. Your designs are beautiful and they always use interesting techniques. I look forward to knitting a pair of socks from this book as my next project.
FYI, I’m on your mailing list, have been for a long time, own most of your books and looked forward to today’s release, unfortunately I didn’t receive your initial offer at noon, 9 my time. For future offers you might want to expend your window as I assume sending a mass amount of emails makes it slower at the service, I know it does of Rav updates. It’s 9:51 my time as I write this and no, it’s not in my spam folder. Not angry or even upset, just thought you should be aware.
Oh how odd! Sometimes email is over zealous about helping us out with catching spam. I’ll send you an email and we’ll get it all sorted out though, people are smarter (and better tempered) than computers and we can pretty much always fix it!