Final Space

OFFICIAL TWITTER of Final Space. We got canceled. Vanished from existence. THE FINAL CHAPTER IS IN BOOKSTORES JUNE 3OTH!!

[Final Space @FinalSpace]

I can finish Final Space.
This isn't a joke.
After two years of trying Warner Brothers Discovery gave me a license for a graphic novel. THE FINAL CHAPTER begins today!
PRE-ORDER NOW: https://t.co/4tBUZrvfKW

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@FinalSpace ✅ Russia. :D Yes, it seemed impossible to me, but…

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@Pukakura88 What’s your order number?

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Happy Final Space Friday! 🚀
Making lots of solid progress on shipping, so here’s where we’re at!

Canada: We brought on two export/import consultants, Marco and Maria (THANK YOU!), and it turns out that if you bulk all your Canada orders onto one truck, you pay ONE duty fee for the entire truck. Which is insane, and I’m not sure how normal humans are supposed to know that, but now I do. So we’re batching all the Canada orders together, which means about 1,457 orders moving throughout next week. By the end of next week and a bit of the following week, Canada will be shipped and wrapped up! 🔥🚀

I went to France last weekend. I’m back now, but it was so cool to hand fans the pre-order book and close their order out right there, and it sparked an idea!

UK: You’re our Godzilla. You’ve got the most. We’re still shipping to you every day, but here’s the crazy idea: what if I pay to get the 5 pallets to get across the ocean and do a bunch of book signings where you can come pick up your copy? Might it honestly be the faster way? It’s a whole new set of costs on me I have nothing figured out yet but we’re getting quotes, getting this done is my priority. We’re trying to get creative to finish all of this.

Australia: Same idea. I’ve had more return-to-senders from those two than anywhere else. I need to visit anyway for a few projects I’m writing, so maybe I bring the books, do signings in a few cities, you pick yours up, and we take some pictures and whatnot. We’re still shipping in the meantime. It’s just so slow getting there, and I’m tired of books getting lost, so I may have to do this one personally. Not many left here either it’s maybe on Pallet, and it’s done.

✅ Done: Japan, Peru, India, Romania, and Taiwan! Book ordering is closing for those countries now. By next week, only 22 countries will be left.

📦 We’re also still processing reshipments, major damages, and lost packages. We did about 123 of those this week. Overall, we got another 600 out the door.

Once we get through the big four, this will be a breeze. Thank you for hanging in there with me. Holy crap kind starting to see a little light at the end of this tunnel. We’re getting through it. 💛

[Final Space @FinalSpace]

@JRalfarius About 50 left

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@ParsleyNatalie Nope, sadly. We tried for our London stop and it was bad. That UK hub isn’t designed for direct to customer, only retailer. Sucks. But I’m working with an exporter/importer to help us.

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@Portalpug ❤️

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@FinalSpace @OlanRogers

There are so many words that could describe what i felt reading Final Space: The Final Chapter

But the main one is being thankful that it exists. I'm thankful for watching this show because it changed my life and I'm thankful for this graphic novel (1/4)

[Final Space @FinalSpace]

@mrperson1324 Those are going out, they look AWESOME

[Final Space @FinalSpace]

Hey Team Squad,

I have a bunch of updates.

We’re making solid progress in Canada, the UK, and Ireland, with about 200 books out in each of those countries. In total got out around 700 from Nashville, that includes a bunch of re-ships.

The Ireland re-ships through UPS went really well. We watched about 300 orders make it into the country. That said, I still don’t fully trust UPS. Dealing with them has been a constant headache. I’ve seen every genre of tracking data, from comedy to horror to pure suspense.

We’ve closed out 36 countries, including all of Central America, Mexico, Argentina, and many more. (Honestly, I have no idea how some of them were even able to watch the show.)

Something new: closing countries in the store
Starting now, every time we close out a country, the book will no longer be available to order there. It’s been on sale for over three years, and the main reason for this change is simple: I want the number of remaining orders to keep getting smaller. So if your country isn’t on the closed list yet, order now before it closes.

I want to wrap this project up. That’s my sole driving force. All the countries listed below are now closed for NOVELS on the site:

Mexico, Argentina, Indonesia, Israel, Colombia, Chile, Kenya, Croatia, Kazakhstan, Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Georgia, Jordan, Kuwait, Guatemala, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Paraguay, Moldova, Bahrain, Côte d’Ivoire, Namibia, Maldives, Barbados, Bermuda, Trinidad & Tobago, Liechtenstein, Gibraltar, Aruba, Tajikistan, Brunei, Réunion, Faroe Islands, Falkland Islands

Coming next week

Another 34 countries will start closing next week, including China, Finland, Iceland, Japan, South Africa, Romania, and more.

Once that’s done, only 23 countries will remain. That includes the big five: Canada, the UK, Australia, Germany, and France. The show was REALLY popular in those countries, so there are simply many more orders to get through.

We’re attacking it from every angle possible.

This has been by far the most difficult project I’ve ever taken on, and I’ve learned a ton. My in-laws have come up to help, and my dad has been packing books. It’s all hands on deck.

We’ve now shipped over 48,000 books, which is over 26 million printed pages. More than 10,000 of those went out from Nashville alone. If I hadn’t worked out the loophole deal with the Macmillan team, we’d probably be somewhere around 15,000. Warner set this up for me to fail. They did not want it to succeed.

I wouldn’t be me if I didn’t share the bad along with the good.

Shopify has put a hold on my sales again. Yes, again.
When I launched the pre-order back in 2023, they held my funds for an entire year because they didn’t allow pre-orders at the time. (They do now. That’s also why I don’t use PayPal Business anymore, since they don’t support pre-orders either. They canceled my account.)
Now Shopify has placed another percentage hold on sales for another 120 days because they say I’m not shipping fast enough. It just means were in Act 3 of a great story, the dark night of the soul part and that the end is close....

Macmillan has also hit their busy season, so Final Space isn’t at the top of their priority list right now. Big authors are releasing books left and right, so as we plan which books to send out through Macmillan, things have slowed down a bit, for understandable reasons. (Raises fist like angry old man) Curse those successful authors with actual publishing deals.

This is still VERY much a priority for me, I’m still fighting, every single day. It feels like fighting a massive monster in the dark. Every swipe takes a chunk out of it making him smaller and smaller. On the other side is the light of the tunnel.

The crazy part is that after the third Warner merger, I don’t think anyone involved in the original Final Space deal is even there anymore. So maybe it’s time to get a little creative and say screw the deal I'm going to do what I need to do to finish this.

Thank you. Those of you who have sent me words of encouragement throughout all this, I’m telling you it means so much.

I’ll say it until the end of time: thank you for your patience.

On October weekend of 17th and 18th, I’ll be in France for a pretty cool festival and then I’ll be right back. Here’s the website: https://t.co/1cgGWvTn6A

[Final Space @FinalSpace]

@PaulLewry

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@PaulLewry That’s the book. It looks great. They needed ISBNs when Macmillan got involved that’s how they know what to send to me when they get imported.

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@GasPoweredCat They have been going out I think there like 700 left to ship of those

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@NonXiztence that will be after everything,

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Hey Team Squad,
Olan here. I'm making a full video next week, I’ve just haven’t had time to sit down, but I wanted to get you another shipping update.

USA: 100% done. Every US order has shipped, up through this Wednesday. That's about 20,000 orders. All my focus is on international now.

Lately it's been about half re-ships for lost packages from UPS and half pushing out the last pre-orders. Our focus is closing out one country at a time.

UK: Got about 200 orders this week for UK.
Ireland: UPS confirmed they lost this batch, waiting on a re-credit from them. Every lost Irish order will be re-shipped. We re-ship a solid 100 from Nashville waiting on that re-credit.

Canada & Australia: Each is down to its last ~1,000 orders.

Austria, Czechia & others: Some UPS packages were shipped but never arrived.

The problem is UPS is Macmillan's only carrier they use. And that's the only partner I got right now.

So now the rest of the international is on me in Nashville using DHL and Global Post. We switched to Global Post and DHL here and have seen LOTS of success with both, so that's what we're using going forward. Only problem with that were just slower. We pack every book in multiple layers of protection, which takes a lot longer than the industry standard of tossing a book in a box.

If your tracking stopped with UPS updating or your package never showed up, just contact us [DM / email] and we'll put you on the re-ship list.

Every day the number of remaining orders gets smaller. I'll say it again and again: thank you for your patience.
I've seen other creators releasing books hit the same issues, but I can tell you none of them have been shipping their own books for months on end. I will be here until the very end, however long it takes. I will get every last book out. I will see this dang thing through to the very end. Back to shipping.
Olan

[Final Space @FinalSpace]

@CVTheCreator1 @OlanRogers @daztibbles Best advice I can give. Just keep going. Even if it going slow just keep going

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@CVTheCreator1 @OlanRogers @daztibbles No all good, I updated the PDF on the code. Can't wait for you to read it, it's lots of fun

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@CVTheCreator1 @OlanRogers @daztibbles When I want to release it. It’s finished by my priority is getting books out.

[Final Space @FinalSpace]

@Unit6902 We just re-shipped a ton of Ireland orders. DM your order number

[Final Space @FinalSpace]

@Al3xlasting Let re-ship that, DM me your order number

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@DaveUlan Geez, UPS? I’ll get it re-shipped but let make sure right address in there can you DM your order number and address

[Final Space @FinalSpace]

@Madiator2011 Awesome

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Happy Final Space Friday 📦
I missed last Friday's update; I apologize. My dog Tardis passed away after her mast cell cancer came back, and losing both of our senior dogs this summer hit harder than I expected. Just need some time in my own head. I kept shipping through it; the distraction helped. Here's the latest update.

Over 2500 order went out this week.

EVERY USA ORDER WILL BE SHIPPED BY NEXT WEEK. 🍾MOST SHOULD HAVE TRACKING USA PEEPS. After that, our focus is 100% on international. I wanted to get our plate cleared of USA because international needs our full attention.

EU STUCK IN CUSTOMS? I'M RE-SHIPPING IT. I have extra books for exactly this reason. Anything sitting too long will get rescued and re-shipped from Nashville, not with UPS. I'm covering it. Were not as fast as MacMillan so this will take time but were coming up with a plan to attack these order stuck in Inner Space.

WHAT HAPPENED: Macmillan has a partnership with UPS, and UPS turns out to be allergic to certain countries. No idea why. I know nothing about that company other than they ship packages. The new EU law didn't help either. Ireland and Poland are the worst effected: about 280 orders went out, and the tracking just stops. Nobody at UPS can tell me where they went or where they are. I tested other carriers. DHL and Global Post do best because they hand off to each country's own postal service.

WHO'S SHIPPING WHAT: Canada, UK, Australia, and Germany are 70% of what's left, and Macmillan will ship those orders. Everything else will now ship from Nashville. 1,500 more pre-orders land here from MacMillan early week.

ALSO DONE
Major damage and lost claims have all been shipped; minor ones next.
Found some lost orders from 2023 (about 34) and 2024 (about 23), now shipping from Nashville.
More Midnight arrived from Macmillan, we talking those too.

Macmillan is a sledgehammer sweeping through huge batches. We're a broom, slower, but we scoop up what's being missed.

Please don't DM me on Instagram about orders. It's 80% spam about Elon Musk, and I can't tell what's real. Reddit is the best place if you want to do social media in a DM to me; just send your order number; I've processed 500 orders there this week. Or email support from the website, which is honestly the best way.

I'm not done until everyone has their book. Did I think I'd still be doing this today? Yeah, I did. I've personally packed thousands of these, so I know how fast we can go at top speed. You might ask why I'm out here shipping books myself. I don't ask anyone to do anything I'm not willing to do alongside them. I'll be here until the very last book is out the door, and after, to make sure everyone is happy. We get closer every day, the total order out go down everyday.

Team Squad, your patience is the stuff of legend. Love you all. Back to shipping. -Olan