Okay, today is the day when it’s done: the last three books have been delivered.

All the Shift Happens pledges, preorders, regular orders, almost-sold-outs and absolutely-last-copies-sold-outs, people who asked for delays, people who forgot about their pledges, some post office and FedEx snafus, a few damage replacements… all of it is now delivered!!!!!

For the first time in half a year I don’t have to worry about things in transit.

I think I’m going to get some ice cream to celebrate.

Thanks SO MUCH to @glennf for being my great partner here. We solved so many problems with shipping, packaging, fulfillment, deliveries, learned various strange things and nuances, built so much custom software, wrote so many email templates, and debugged so many cases that I lost tracking of it all. I mean track. Lost track.

She doesn’t know I’m sharing this, but this is my Mom reading my book. (Well, sort of. My Mom doesn’t understand English.)

This is in the same apartment I grew up in, right next to the same books I admired as a kid. My Mom was a librarian for a while, and so some of my love for books was definitely hers to begin with.

The ice cream place is closed. 🤬
@mwichary I got gelato after reading this post. Not exactly ice cream but Frio Gelato is my favorite place.
@mwichary Congratulations!!