Highway 62

So, remember when I said that it was going to hit November 30th? Well, that was before I found out that Speakeasy was going with Lamppost printing for their books. I'd heard the news about Lamppost dumping all but Alias books and felt bad about it, but didn't figure it affected me directly, because as far as I knew, Speakeasy's books were being printed by Quebecor, and I hadn't heard different.

So much for assumptions. Turns out that when Lamppost hosed their clients, I was caught in the blowback. Which meant that Strangeways #1's date was now back up in the air. Last week, I got news that Speakeasy was back with Quebecor and there were going to be some changes to things (but none of them affected me, as I've got a black and white book--the only montly b/w book Speakeasy is doing, to the best of my knowledge.)

To all the reviewers who got on the stick and got reviews of the book up the week it was supposed to ship, you have my thanks and my regret that it's not going to mesh as well as I'd like it to. Here's a couple that have gone up already (including the first one, from my old alma mater as it were, Broken Frontier.)

Ken Gallant reviews Strangeways #1 at Broken Frontier
James Wood, not James Woods, reviews it over at Opiate of the Masses

There's probably going to be a couple more this week as well, unless they read this and chuck the reviews in the dustbin (not that I'd blame 'em).

When there's a new street date for #1, I'll post it right here. I wish there was something I could do to change this, but some things are beyond even my cosmically-spawned powers.