How To Slay a Wizard
The Signed First Edition
Now that the Kindle, KU, audiobook, hardcover, and paperback editions of Owen Benjamin’s #1 bestselling HOW TO SLAY A WIZARD are all available, we’re ready to start taking orders for the leatherbound Signed First Edition.
This is a very serious collector’s item, being a bestselling debut by a first-time author. Please note that it will require 6-9 months to make them, so it’s not like they’re sitting in the warehouse already. We will only make as many as we sell during the limited period of availability, which will probably be from now until the end of April.
We do intend to use the gold wizards money hat as a prominent element of the cover, but this image is just a general idea of what it’s going to look like. We will use green pigskin leather; at 180 pages the book will be a little slimmer than it appears in the mockup image so the spine title and name will be perpendicular to the bottom rather than in parallel, as with THE MISSIONARIES and THE PROMETHEAN.
For those who are waiting for their books, I’m pleased to be able to say that the bindery is now in active production. The large print run for our first big client has shipped, and we’ve just taken delivery of the finished DRACULA and HISTORY OF FLORENCE book blocks. THE EVERLASTING MAN and DE BELLO GALLICO have been printed and the book blocks are being assembled for delivery the week after next, as well as two or three more books that I have to check in order to avoid misleading anyone.
The illustrations for the first three Signed First Editions are now complete, the cover stamps are being designed by the same artist, and the interiors should be ready for printing by the second week of April.
All of the pieces are now in place, we have the leathers for all these books, we have a backup foil stamping machine, and we’re even looking to bring in a part-time employee to speed up the production process now that every element has been mastered correctly. The recent debacle with the most recent Dragonsteel book is a very good reminder of why we cannot cut any corners no matter how eager everyone is to get their books.