By Kevin Siembieda

Thanksgiving and the week that has followed seems to have flown by in the blink of an eye. Christmas Surprise Package season is a big part of that. We easily spend half our day selecting and pulling product, signing books, then packing and shipping them out. We love doing Surprise Packages, so please keep them coming, but they are a lot of work. Of course, this week was extra busy thanks to the release of Dead Reign™ Sourcebook 4: Fear the Reaper™ and The Rifter® #64. Both books look gorgeous and are getting high praise from those who have seen them. If you had a pre-order or are a Rifter® subscriber, your copies are on their way to you.

Rifts® Northern Gun™ One continues to sell like crazy and remains the Number One ‘requested’ item for the Christmas Surprise Packages, but the Rifts® Ultimate Edition, Rifts® Lemuria, Rifts® Black Market, Rifts® Vampire Sourcebook, Robotech® and Dead Reign™ (zombie apocalypse) are all right behind it. We’ve seen a lot of interest and requests for various Palladium Fantasy®, Heroes Unlimited™ and Nightbane® titles too, which is great to see.

By Kevin Siembieda

It is the Thanksgiving holiday weekend here in the United States and many of you will be traveling and busy, so let’s jump right into it.

UPDATE: Rifts^® Northern Gun^™ One

Rifts® Northern Gun™ One continues to sell like crazy and is the Number One ‘requested’ item for the Christmas Surprise Packages. Other top sellers and hot requests include Rifts® Ultimate Edition, Rifts® Lemuria, Rifts® Black Market, Rifts® Vampire Kingdoms™, Rifts® Vampires Sourcebook, Chaos Earth®, Heroes of the Megaverse® and other Rifts® Dimension Books, all things Robotech®, and Dead Reign™ (set in the zombie apocalypse). We’ve seen a lot of interest and requests for various Palladium Fantasy®, Heroes Unlimited™ and Nightbane® titles too, which is great to see.

UPDATE: Rifts^® Northern Gun^™ One Hardcovers have shipped

It was murder, signing, numbering and packing them up, but most of the Megaverse Insider hardcovers have shipped. Half went out on Tuesday, the rest went out today. Only the top 15 Insiders remain and they will ship next Monday. I didn’t want to rush them since they get additional special items like original artwork and prints. Whew. Everyone pitched in to help me and Julius get these into the mail; from Matt and Jeff to Alex and Wayne. Enjoy.

The Rifts® Northern Gun PDF for Megaverse Insiders will start being sent out next week, a process that should take a few days. A dozen or two of the Color Hardcover Edition and a few of the Steel Foil Edition will be made available to the lucky Surprise Package recipients who convince Santa Kevin they were good little boys and girls and truly deserve one. A few of each will also be made available for sale on my (Kevin Siembieda) eBay store by the end of the week.