Anyhow, today I am gleeful because my two copies came--complete with a bag of microwave popcorn. (Nessa, you are too wonderful!) Yay!!
EUOL, it's awesome to see how the design came out. Oh, and that's quite some scrawl your signature has devolved into.
I must say, the maps are classy. Sleek even. As for the other innards of the book, I love the typeface, display fonts, section page art (very interesting symbols), the Allomancy chart and glossary in the back. I even like the cover more than I did when I first saw it posted in the forum (though the "foil"/ comb-like lines across the top and bottom still seem off to me). It feels awesome to see my name among all the others who helped out, too. Anyway, I can't wait to read it again and see how it's changed in the final polish.
EUOL: P.S. I noticed that my copy is numbered, though it wasn't one of the first 50. Cool.
But... is that because of the flyer that Walden Books had posted? I stopped by, actually, back on July 4th weekend when I was in UT. The flyer indicated that *anyone* who ordered a copy and showed up would get a numbered copy. I thought, "Uh oh, there's going to be some disappointed people...."
So I mentioned how you were only planning to number the first 50. The clerk gave me this ... look and said, "Well, when someone reserves a copy, we make sure to tell them that." heh. I'm guessing *that* didn't quite work, eh? The fans won out! Not that I'm complaining, of course.