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
Hey everyone!
I’m going to keep posting updates whenever I have them even if they’re tiny. So here’s the latest breakdown for both the COLOR EDITION and MIDNIGHT EDITION.
First off: we’re answering roughly 500 emails a day…and then wake up to another 500 the next morning. A lot of these are address updates, which is totally fine we’re working through them and figuring it all out. It’s just clogging our inbox, but we expected this to happen which is why we had as many people as possible do it three months ago.
COLOR EDITION
We’re now in the later part of Batch 2.
The timing got a little weird because of Memorial Day weekend, so MacMillian was closed Monday (though we did get a jump on Midnight Editions that day).
About 400 international orders are going out tomorrow on top of USA, Canada.
We’re also having a meeting Monday to figure out how to speed this process up even more.
The biggest bottleneck right now is honestly just data. The process goes:
Nashville exports batches → MacMillian imports them → UPS imports them
There’s a small data conformity issue happening between systems, mostly with certain UK addresses. Some UK addresses work perfectly, others have unusual formatting where there’s no street name and only numbers or district identifiers. Different systems want address information formatted differently, so we’ve had to manually verify some of these orders.
USA, Canada, and most international orders are moving smoothly and at a nice pace. This is still moving around 40x faster than I could have done this by myself. Thousands of books have been shipped out and it is getting faster
MIDNIGHT EDITION
We’ve been packing roughly 200-ish books per day. We have around 400 books hitting the post office tomorrow.
We already have another 100 packed and we’re continuing to pack through today and tomorrow.
MIDNIGHT SHIP DAYS ARE: TUESDAYS & FRIDAYS
(The post office hates us.)
But we are moving. We’re working long hours and moving about as fast as we can.
One final thing:
You may notice some big jumps in batch numbers. That’s because batch numbers include ALL orders not just graphic novels.
More tomorrow! -Olan
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Back to packing! Lots of novels going out tomorrow! -O
Happy Final Space Friday!
Honestly, Im pretty exhausted but it’s all exciting at the same time haha. I’m just packing all day all weekend and to get books out the door on the Midnight side. Once we get tracking information from MacMillian we’ll update the international for Batch 1 & 2 and USA for Batch 2. They are packing Batch 3 order numbers #10,501 to #15,500.
I’ll have a big update on Monday on where we’re at, plus a few more tour stops I’ll announce then but we’re just working around the clock to get books out.
Alright back to it! -O
UPDATE! We’re on a night shift packing Midnight Editions, a few went out yesterday, a big chunk will go out tomorrow. Got my boy David helping me pack, you know his vocals from many Final Space songs. And got more help coming on Sunday. These are packed a tad different because at the time I was going to be doing all of it but now we have two teams working from MacMillian and Nashville (Star Cadet).
I did hear from MacMillian on intentional orders from Batch 1 & Batch 2 (orders numbers #1 to #10,500) are going out tomorrow/Saturday. Canada is already out. They had a bit of negotiating to do with UPS on international but from now on everything with go out with USA orders in our 5,000 batches.
Things with start to speed up. We’ll be working through the weekend so Monday you’ll be see a lot of stuff arrive but also shipping confirmations. 🙌 More soon! Thanks for the patience!
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 🔥🚀
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Moonwalking through The Legend of Khiimori 🕺🏿
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MAY 18TH!!! PRE-ORDERS BEGIN SHIPPING OUT 🔥🥹 It’s the beginning of the end! Thank you to everyone that supported and followed this crazy journey.
Big thank you to @GungnirBooks and Macmillian Distribution for helping me get this to the finish line.
Updates on lots of things and tour stops in the video. -Olan
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