Thursday, June 14, 2012

My first order arrived!  Holy schnikees!  5000 Virginia Tech children's books.  Shocked by how good the quality is.  We have managed to sell roughly about 220 copies in the past 3 weeks.  None of it will matter if the consumer doesn't buy it from the retailers, so I am still holding my breath. 
My daughter Meredith took a great photo of two of our three chihuahuas becoming Va. Tech fans.  Pretty awesome stuff considering their mom was raising them to be UNC dogs. 

We got final approval from UNC and Appalachian State this week, so those two are off to the printers this week. NCSU is being printed as well.  Still waiting to hear back from ECU.   Our paper engineer is working on Mississippi State and will soon have Baylor in his hands.  Got to keep him busy.  We are supposed to get paid from 3 different customers soon. Holding my breath to see if they do pay...

The other bit of big news was that we were picked up by Gib Carson and Associates this week.  This could be a huge break.  He seems to be a big believer in our books.  He said his wife and three kids have not put down the books since I mailed him a sample.  I am hoping that this will give us a much larger audience to sell the book to.  It has helped me sleep at night...

The only truly frustrating part at the moment was that Hokiegear, a store in Salem, VA had no interest in carrying our product. The surly boy I always spoke to on the phone was never kind.  I hope that one day when he puts his heart and hopes in something, that he receives the opposite treatment that he gave me.  Hopefully they will see the light one day.  We would love to have it in their store.