The big product surge update March 26 2009
Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2009 7:59 pm
The big product surge
Holy Tomoley!
It is nonstop activity at the Palladium Offices. Wayne and I finished our design work for several new products to debut at the Palladium Open House. You know, things like a few new T-shirts (all very cool and a little different), Palaldium coffee cups(if we can find the right place to make them), and others. I don’t want to reveal them all because we want to surprise people at the event itself, but we are very excited about them.
Of course, nothing goes easy, so there have been some changes and tweaks we’ve had to make to the final art, meetings and telephone calls with printers and manufacturers, and lots of design and marketing discussions.
Then there are Palladium Open House details: I secured extra parking space this week, figured out how many tables and chairs we need, reorganized and set up warehouse space, hit a few trophy shops in search of the perfect items for the Contest Competition, etc. Whew. Open House is a lot of work, but it is going to be fantastic!
Books, books, books! Palladium’s big surge of new product continues
Dyval™ ships next Monday or Tuesday! Carl Gleba saw a preview of it and went wild over it. Always a good sign when the author does a happy dance.
Meanwhile, we are busy trying to finish the next FOUR books over the next three weeks. That means me coordinating the artwork (interior art and covers), talking with artists and writers and editors, working out schedules and deadlines, approving sketches, art direction and doing up contracts. It all takes up more time than you might imagine so it has been just a whirlwind of activity. Everything is coming along nicely and is looking great. Unfortunately, we are about a week or so behind where I need to be. This despite most of us working till 9 or 10:00 P.M. EVERY NIGHT!
Shemarrian Nation™ is going to be awesome. I hit a few snags with the final rewrite and editing, but working through them. Art is nearly done and looking great.
Dead Reign™ Sourcebook is coming along too. Mostly notes, bits and pieces of text and a bunch of artwork. I got the cover sketch by E.M. Gist today and it is his best yet!!! Nick Bradshaw has a pile ‘o art coming to me in a couple of days too. Additional art is being done by Kent Burles.
Rifter® #46 contracts have been sent and most of the artwork assigned, and Alex and Wayne have started the editing tweaking. Another great issue including some official sourcematerial for Dyval.™
Nightbane® Survival Guide looks fantastic too. The writing is clean and should be an easy final edit, the first half of the artwork has been asigned, the rest is going out today and I should get a final sketch for the cover later today or tomorrow. Interior art by Amy Ashbaugh and Stephen Fox.
The writing and development of Warpath™ Urban Jungle™ is well under way, I’ve had several meetings and discussions with Jeff Hansen and Jason Marker about it, and we’re all excited about it.
Titles back in stock
Part of that big product surge is getting a dozen out of print titles back in stock, even if only as special print on demand short runs. Rifts® Mercenaries is the latest. It was supposed to ship Friday, but the printer got them done sooner and they shipped out yesterday and today! Rifts® Vampire Kingdoms™, Rifts® Anvil Galaxy™, Wolfen Empire™ are also back in stock.
Megaverse® Builder, Rifts® Japan, Coalition Overkill™ and others will be back in stock in April. If forget what else in slated to come back in print.
We have also been moving forward to get select titles made available as digital pdfs available throught DriveThruRPG.com – we anticipate the first selection will be made available by the end of April, maybe sooner.
Oh yeah, Barnes and Noble took more copies of Robotech® the Shadow Chronicles RPG (a very good sign) and we are trying to get them to take the two sourcebooks.
Sales have been up this past week or so too (thank goodness; things had gotten a little scary for a while there), and excitement is starting to running high.
Whew . . . I’m tire just wrting about it all.
Keep those imaginations burning bright and game on!
Sincerely,
Kevin Siembieda
Publisher, Writer, Game Designer & RPG Mastermind
© Copyright March 26, 2009 Palladium Books Inc. All rights reserved.
Rifts®, The Rifter®, RECON®, Splicers®, Palladium Books®, Phase World®, The Palladium Fantasy Role-Playing Game®, Megaverse®, Nightbane®, The Mechanoids®, The Mechanoid Invasion®, Coalition Wars® and After the Bomb® are Registered Trademarks of Palladium Books Inc. Heroes Unlimited, Beyond the Supernatural, Dead Reign, Warpath, Shemarrian Nation, and other published book titles, names, slogans and likenesses are trademarks of Palladium Books Inc., and Kevin Siembieda.
Robotech® and Robotech® The Shadow Chronicles® are Registered Trademarks of Harmony Gold USA, Inc.
Holy Tomoley!
It is nonstop activity at the Palladium Offices. Wayne and I finished our design work for several new products to debut at the Palladium Open House. You know, things like a few new T-shirts (all very cool and a little different), Palaldium coffee cups(if we can find the right place to make them), and others. I don’t want to reveal them all because we want to surprise people at the event itself, but we are very excited about them.
Of course, nothing goes easy, so there have been some changes and tweaks we’ve had to make to the final art, meetings and telephone calls with printers and manufacturers, and lots of design and marketing discussions.
Then there are Palladium Open House details: I secured extra parking space this week, figured out how many tables and chairs we need, reorganized and set up warehouse space, hit a few trophy shops in search of the perfect items for the Contest Competition, etc. Whew. Open House is a lot of work, but it is going to be fantastic!
Books, books, books! Palladium’s big surge of new product continues
Dyval™ ships next Monday or Tuesday! Carl Gleba saw a preview of it and went wild over it. Always a good sign when the author does a happy dance.
Meanwhile, we are busy trying to finish the next FOUR books over the next three weeks. That means me coordinating the artwork (interior art and covers), talking with artists and writers and editors, working out schedules and deadlines, approving sketches, art direction and doing up contracts. It all takes up more time than you might imagine so it has been just a whirlwind of activity. Everything is coming along nicely and is looking great. Unfortunately, we are about a week or so behind where I need to be. This despite most of us working till 9 or 10:00 P.M. EVERY NIGHT!
Shemarrian Nation™ is going to be awesome. I hit a few snags with the final rewrite and editing, but working through them. Art is nearly done and looking great.
Dead Reign™ Sourcebook is coming along too. Mostly notes, bits and pieces of text and a bunch of artwork. I got the cover sketch by E.M. Gist today and it is his best yet!!! Nick Bradshaw has a pile ‘o art coming to me in a couple of days too. Additional art is being done by Kent Burles.
Rifter® #46 contracts have been sent and most of the artwork assigned, and Alex and Wayne have started the editing tweaking. Another great issue including some official sourcematerial for Dyval.™
Nightbane® Survival Guide looks fantastic too. The writing is clean and should be an easy final edit, the first half of the artwork has been asigned, the rest is going out today and I should get a final sketch for the cover later today or tomorrow. Interior art by Amy Ashbaugh and Stephen Fox.
The writing and development of Warpath™ Urban Jungle™ is well under way, I’ve had several meetings and discussions with Jeff Hansen and Jason Marker about it, and we’re all excited about it.
Titles back in stock
Part of that big product surge is getting a dozen out of print titles back in stock, even if only as special print on demand short runs. Rifts® Mercenaries is the latest. It was supposed to ship Friday, but the printer got them done sooner and they shipped out yesterday and today! Rifts® Vampire Kingdoms™, Rifts® Anvil Galaxy™, Wolfen Empire™ are also back in stock.
Megaverse® Builder, Rifts® Japan, Coalition Overkill™ and others will be back in stock in April. If forget what else in slated to come back in print.
We have also been moving forward to get select titles made available as digital pdfs available throught DriveThruRPG.com – we anticipate the first selection will be made available by the end of April, maybe sooner.
Oh yeah, Barnes and Noble took more copies of Robotech® the Shadow Chronicles RPG (a very good sign) and we are trying to get them to take the two sourcebooks.
Sales have been up this past week or so too (thank goodness; things had gotten a little scary for a while there), and excitement is starting to running high.
Whew . . . I’m tire just wrting about it all.
Keep those imaginations burning bright and game on!
Sincerely,
Kevin Siembieda
Publisher, Writer, Game Designer & RPG Mastermind
© Copyright March 26, 2009 Palladium Books Inc. All rights reserved.
Rifts®, The Rifter®, RECON®, Splicers®, Palladium Books®, Phase World®, The Palladium Fantasy Role-Playing Game®, Megaverse®, Nightbane®, The Mechanoids®, The Mechanoid Invasion®, Coalition Wars® and After the Bomb® are Registered Trademarks of Palladium Books Inc. Heroes Unlimited, Beyond the Supernatural, Dead Reign, Warpath, Shemarrian Nation, and other published book titles, names, slogans and likenesses are trademarks of Palladium Books Inc., and Kevin Siembieda.
Robotech® and Robotech® The Shadow Chronicles® are Registered Trademarks of Harmony Gold USA, Inc.