Oh, the glamorous life of an editor and publisher! The long three-martini lunches! The gala events in glittering penthouses! The hours upon hours spent hunched over a table packing and labeling boxes…
…what?
Yeah, it’s a lot more of the latter and less of the former, at least at a small publishing house. I spent about four hours last night wrapping, packing, and shipping various orders. And that’s not counting the time I’ll spend in line at the post office today – most of the boxes are pre-paid, but there’s a few packages that have to get sent internationally, and that involves waiting in line. While shuffling along a six-foot stack of boxes. Yeah. Fun times!
And since a picture of a giant stack of boxes (for reference, the higher of the two stacks is about 3.5 feet tall) isn’t all that exciting – much like my life – I figured I’d also snap a few pictures of the sort of things going in those boxes. Exclusive, handbound copies of Pilgrim of the Sky, in all their velvet-damask glory…
(and if you think the packing and shipping took a long time, you do not want to know how long those handbound editions took to make…)
But my God, those hardbound copies are GORGEOUS.
Beautiful handbound books!
Velveted damask with silver silk tapes and black endpapers, signed in silver ink. They’re not bad.
They’d better be beautiful, after all I went through to make them, hah!
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