HAPPY FINAL SPACE FRIDAY!
London Day 2! Ottawa! And Salt Lake City! Have now been added to the tour! 🚀 Snag a ticket: https://t.co/4tBUZrvfKW
And shipping…always shipping…in fact I need to get my booty buns back to that. ✌️ -Olan
Shipping Update. June 1st. 2026.
Had a great meeting with MacMillian to discuss where they’re at and the small of the issue they’re running into with international orders. They have fixed it.
We had about 100+ orders kick back during Round 1, where they manually tracked down and fixed the addresses. After that first round, only about 15 orders got kicked back from Batch 1, Round 2 which is actually a huge improvement.
Usually this means the address is unreadable, incomplete, or the computer system doesn’t know how to interpret certain non-English keyboard characters. We had a couple Arabic addresses that had trouble transferring between systems. And UK addresses are still causing a few issues but less so now.
We even had someone put their name as "My Email My Email" which... haha maybe that's a real name, idk.
So we’re reaching out to those people directly to update addresses or track down whatever information we need.
International peeps, the good news is: they’re figuring it out and pushing through it all. I’ve already seen a few of you getting tracking numbers, which is awesome.
We also now have tracking data for orders up to and beyond the 10,000-ish mark they went out today, which is great. It really feels like everyone is starting to hit their groove.
MacMillian has honestly been crushing it, and I’ve been boots on the ground too packing, taping, shipping, unloading. Not a spare hand is being wasted getting these things out.
This week we entered the phase of shipping orders roughly in the BATCH 3: 10,000–16,000 range while simultaneously packing 16,000–20,000-ish. And a few in BATCH 2 international.
Also worth mentioning: before we started shipping, I had a choice between faster automated packaging kind of a cold-press cardboard Cheez-It box style that automatically packs and labels or the slower, stronger, more expensive cardboard T-fold boxes.
We tested both.
I hated how the faster packaging looked and felt. It would have moved WAY faster, but it simply wasn’t as strong. We even had one test where a puncture went straight into the book.
Look, damage is unavoidable with shipping. It’s going to happen regardless of what happens, we even had a Midnight Edition get damaged and it was in a cardboard box while inside a bubble mailer haha. That’s why I set aside thousands of books that aren’t for sale purely for replacements and exchanges.
I chose the slower route knowing it would add a little more time... but also a lot more protection.
Was that the right move?
I think so. I like doing things right the first time. Usually that means things move a little slower.
But sincerely, thank you for the patience.
The job isn't done, until you all have your books. Onwards!
-O
Happy Final Space Friday! 🚀
We’re still working hard to get these pre-orders out the door and will be pushing through the weekend to keep things moving.
In the meantime, I had Daz work up a FREE downloadable dust jacket for your graphic novel.
I'm having him make a few more for free…so if you just run to a FedEx Office or local print shop and have one printed yourself. Should only cost a buck or two at most.
Appreciate the patience, Team Squad ❤️
DOWNLOAD THE “SEE YOU IN THE STAR” DUST JACKET (when you check out if with give you a link to download it):
https://t.co/d8qM8tKIPP
It is 🙌: https://t.co/hBD7Ddxo9B
I talked about this loophole in my updates but because I piggybacked off @GungnirBooks distribution deal to get all the pre-order books out faster, his publishing company can put it on Amazon because I wholesaled him thousands of books from my site. I can’t sell it on Amazon but HE can and he did 🔥 A few things it’s a different cover designed for bookstores and it starts shipping June 30th. Enjoy!
Appreciate everyone being so respectful about spoilers while we continue to get orders out! ❤️🥹 We’re back at it today! And we figured out how to batch upload shipping confirmations through a program so that will be much quicker from now on 🔥🚀
@FinalSpace I wanna go back to 2023 and pre-order both editions of FSTFC, but then again, there's always @Walmart and @amazon. Thanks, @GungnirBooks and MacMillan Distribution.
Happy Final Space Friday! 🚀
LOTS going on!
1️⃣ Macmillan has started shipping some graphic novels early to get a head start, the 18th is our full on shipping day but I gave the thumbs up to do what they got to do. We’re officially entering the NO SPOILER zone for a bit. There’s so much I want to talk about, but neither the official Final Space channels nor I will be posting spoilers until all pre-orders are out. I'm only going to only be retweet or post any posts that keep it vague or are general feelings. :)
2️⃣ New tour dates dropping Monday!
Atlanta, Salt Lake City, and hopefully Ottawa! (Jam Filled is looking into renting a theater to screen episodes for the event.) Also Nashville, Awake Awake might be doing a live set!
3️⃣ This pop-up I got made for tour is SO cool haha. I had to order two sets of everything for the tour, to ensure I have a safety but also so I can taper shipping them out to events.
4️⃣ I’ll post a video Monday explaining how to read the book alongside the soundtrack. We intentionally let some songs run longer, so when you hit a QR code, scan it right away, even if another track is still playing. When it lands, it REALLY lands. it's really fun to read it with the soundtrack.
5️⃣ I’m updating the commentary section in the back of the book this weekend, there's a few things in there already. Originally I planned audio commentary only, but I figured out how to make a playlist of videos instead, which works way better.
6️⃣ “1000” the first digital expansion in the back of the book is DONE and available Day 1. The others are still in progress. Daz is coming back from a much-needed holiday and wrapping another graphic novel before jumping back in. These expansions will release in layers to keep the story going in some areas I thought would be fun to explore. “1000” alone is 30 pages…and it rips.
7️⃣ Midnight and Color editions are shipping at the same time, yes but we’ll be slower than Macmillan distribution. We’re packing things differently, and they simply have a bigger team and facility.
8️⃣ If you need anything, please use the contact page on the site. I’m going to be all over the place and will miss social posts.
Exciting times ahead. If your book starts arriving soon, I hope you enjoy the last ride.
And yes… another trailer drops TODAY.
– Olan
PRE-ORDER:
https://t.co/tQ526rDkOV