The blog project covers are printed. The contents are formatted and proofread as much as they ever will be. The printing cost quotes have been gathered and a winner has been chosen. Tomorrow, I drop off the file to be printed, cut, paid for, and hauled home. It'll take a day or two to assemble them. I have a class presentation on Monday, which will occupy me this weekend, but hopefully I can start mailing some out.
As soon as they're assembled, I'll take a photo of one and post it here so you can see it. It's 4.25"x11", 23 single-spaced, double-sided pages. It has heft. My initial estimate is that after printing, materials, and shipping, they'll come out to around $3.50 a piece. I don't want to make any profit for myself, but any profit that does come in, I'd like to split between The Bridge, a church in Portland, and Vintage Faith, the church plant I attend in Spokane. Like the offering at church, if you're not sure whether you buy the whole thing, please withhold your money--none of us gets to pay for the Gospel (even in the form of a blog project)--if you want to pay $3.50 a piece, I will receive it gladly. If you visit the websites of these churches and would like to donate anything beyond the base cost, please do. You can either make out checks to me or use PayPal, which I'll set up tomorrow, and I'll write out separate checks to the churches.
I'll send a free copy (such pittance, I know--I'm sorry) to each of the contributors, which will leave me with 75 copies to sell (I can't afford to print any more up-front, but if it looks like I'll need more, I'll try to make more copies soon). If you know you'd like to order one (or more), e-mail me at junkmailforblankets@hotmail.com with "blogbook" in the subject line so I can make sure to set it aside for you. If you'll include your mailing address, I'll send it out as soon as I can (hopefully this Saturday) and receive your payment whenever you can send it (if by mail: Jeremy Huggins / 1924 W. Pacific, #4 / Spokane, WA 99204). E-mail me with any other questions. Thanks for your patience (I first sent out a call for entries last October), and for being interested. I'm pretty excited about the whole thing and am grateful to be involved. And I can't think of a better way to celebrate my upcoming one-year blogging anniversary.
I'm sure I'm forgetting multiple things, but I'll post again soon.
Posted by ghetto monk at January 4, 2005 10:57 PM | TrackBack'm interested is seeing it. I'm wondering what you put on the cover. Post pictures will ya?
Posted by: daniel silliman at January 5, 2005 07:41 AMI'm interested in it, as well. One thing about the sales-- have you thought about giving a portion of the price to relief from the Tsunami? I'd pay a little more if I knew that was included...
Just a thought.
Posted by: Ed at January 5, 2005 08:59 AMdan, i will post something picturish. aesthetically, it's not much, really. just a cardstock brown cover with the word gospel hand-carved and printed and an asterisk on the front. the pages are clean--nothing but type. the binding, well, i haven't figured that out yet, but it won't be grand, either. i'm running a skinny operation here.
Posted by: jeremy at January 5, 2005 09:47 AMJeremy,
Do you have the addys of the contributors? Can't rememeber from here...
jason
Posted by: Jason B at January 5, 2005 09:50 AMEd, no, honestly I hadn't. That sounds completely worthwhile, and maybe a better idea than the one I had. I'd already committed to these local churches, and I want to honor that, and I feel good about that, though it's possible that they'll use the money the way you've suggested. As usual (which I know you weren't suggesting), my sightedness is very near. So, to answer the long way, tsunami aid isn't going to receive any of the proceeds, at least from me.
Posted by: jeremy at January 5, 2005 09:51 AMi'm very excited, jeremy.
Posted by: emily jane at January 5, 2005 10:50 AMis it too late to send you a final re-write?
hahahohohaha.
Posted by: abe at January 5, 2005 02:29 PMthanks, ej. abe, i pity the foo make me the butt of jokes.
Posted by: jeremy at January 5, 2005 07:59 PMi pity that foo also, though i think i was making fun of myself. anyway, looking forward to seeing this thang.
Posted by: abe at January 6, 2005 08:00 AMi will buy 2...
Posted by: casey at January 10, 2005 08:05 PMcasey, you got it.
Posted by: jeremy at January 10, 2005 11:44 PM