Glumdark

Status of All Items and Next Steps in Preparation for Fulfillment!
23 days ago – Wed, Sep 30, 2026 at 10:40:32 PM

Hello everyone!

We are excited to bring you an update on the status of all of the deliverables and next steps in preparation for fulfillment!

Status of All Items 

At the US warehouse:

• Glumdark T-shirts ✅
• Glumdark Art-prints ✅
• Glumdark Signed Book Plates ✅
• Glumdark Signed Sketch Plates ✅
• Glumdark Sticker ✅

Arriving next week to the US, UK, and EU warehouses

• Glumdark Screen-printed Poster 
• Glumdark Screen-printed Patch 

Production complete, will ship this month directly to US, EU, and UK warehouses:

• Glumdark Standard Book
• Glumdark LE Book

We are finalizing shipping details with the printer and expect the Glumdark Standard and LE books to ship from Europe via ocean freight in the next few of weeks. Shipping will take roughly about 6-8 weeks to the US (less time to the EU and UK), however we should have a better idea of an ETA once the freight is booked on the vessel. 

We will process stock transfers as well next week of all of the items at the US warehouse that need to go tot he UK and EU. These items will arrive well ahead of the books in the next few weeks.

Next steps: Addresses Locking Soon, Fulfillment Timeline

We expect to lock addresses by the end of October. We will send out another update with more information on this process. We encourage you to update your address now if necessary. If you need assistance with your address due to a change in state or country, or have any other questions, please reach out to us at [email protected]. 

We should have a better sense of the fulfillment timeline and rough start date once the books have shipped. Look out for that in the next update! We are really excited to get this project out to you, it really looks so amazing!

Thank you so much!
The EF Crew

A Very Small, Very Large Update
2 months ago – Mon, Aug 24, 2026 at 01:39:31 PM

This Morning...

I was halfway through my coffee when the FedEx guy rang my buzzer, ready to hand me the thing I've been looking forward to holding in my hands for several years. 

I had a half panic attack unwrapping the box, for fear that some horrible mistake would ruin the book, or set us back even further.

Luckily, that wasn't the case... The books are looking great! Photos below.

So what's next?

We have a couple of small things we need to discuss with the printer, which should go quickly.

The real next step will be Exalted Funeral coordinating getting these things onto a boat to the warehouse. Everything else is already sitting in the distribution center, so there should be no more delays.

I will likely provide a video update soon, walking through some finer aspects of the books. But I've gotten some recent feedback that a small update now is better than waiting for a bigger update later. 

I'll share updates on fulfillment as soon as I know anything.

Cheers, and thanks for sharing the dream with me.
- CTRO

The Glumdark Proofs are Here (and They Look Great)
4 months ago – Tue, Jul 07, 2026 at 06:33:19 PM

The Proofs

Are in! I recorded a quick walk-through today. If you want to avoid spoilers about the interior of the book, all you need to know is that the physical proofs were approved, they look great, and we should have bound copies to approve within days.

Thanks for all your patience.

-CTRO

Production Timeline Update
4 months ago – Fri, Jun 12, 2026 at 01:03:38 PM

Production Timeline Update

Hey all. I just wanted to write a quick update clarifying where we are and what we're waiting for. Although we approved the digital proofs of the book a month ago, there was a delay in invoicing which pushed back the production timeline. The printer has given us conflicting information about when exactly we'll be slotted into their production schedule, which we were pressing them this week to nail down. 

I indicated to backers in some comments that I'd have a more clear timeline to share this week. Unfortunately, the last thing we heard from the printer was ambiguous, and so we'll need to wait until next week to pin them down on exactly when we can expect to be in production and how long it will take.

There are multiple pages of the book that I want to see photos of as soon as they come off the line, so that we can verify print quality. I'll be sharing them here as soon as I have them. We've also requested physical proofs be sent, so I'll share images of those as well. Printing won't be halted while the proofs are being mailed. 

As soon as I have anything concrete, I'll post another update. 

These delays are brutal. I wish I could do more.
-CTRO

April Updates and Some Thoughts on Perfectionism
6 months ago – Mon, Apr 20, 2026 at 04:32:30 PM

First: The Updates

• The Glumdark Vol 4. cassette has been proofed and approved and is moving into production. So warm up those reels. 
• T-Shirts are done and in the warehouse.
• Screenprinted posters won't be UV, as we couldn't color-match. But we're looking at doing a limited edition print with wacky UV colors. This is TBD, based on pricing concerns.
• All other backer rewards are either complete or easy to complete quickly. 
• And then there's the book...

The Book

For the past few weeks, we've been in a cycle of revisions from myself to publisher to printer and back again. At each stage we've found different issues and each time an issue is found, it requires another round trip. 

Some of the issues have been absolute show-stoppers, like pagination being broken or offset errors. Others have been more subtle. I don't want to delay this book for an issue that nobody will notice, but I've also been working on it for years and want it to be as near to perfect as I can get it.

I have loved making this book, and I'm beyond grateful for the support it has gotten. But proofing something of this complexity and magnitude is not a task I'd wish upon anyone. Over 170 pages of tables, each with a unique layout, each with different numbers of items, a table of contents, an index, and a ton of different styles of text each indicating specific uses. Once you've looked it over 10,000 times, it becomes really difficult to notice any error and the impossible goal is to find every error.

After several revisions, I discovered that my InDesign paragraph styles were inconsistent across chapters. Eagle-eyed observers will notice this in the distributed PDF. I discovered it, with absolute horror, when I thought we'd arrived at a final version. After fixing this issue and scanning the entire book several times, I once again thought we'd arrived at a final version and resubmitted it to the hellish loop of revision.

And then, when reviewing the proofs once more, I found a single missing apostrophe. An "it's" missing its contraction. And it was included in one of my favorite table items in the entire book. But this was the only issue I saw. And so I made a bold choice: I would leave it. Not simply because I didn't want to go through another round of revisions, but also as a kind of symbol. A bit of grammatical wabi-sabi. An Easter egg for everyone who reads these updates. It made me feel kind of proud to let go of the idea of a perfect book. It wasn't accepting defeat, it was accepting the naturally chaotic way of the universe. It was Buddhism. 

Until the next day, when I found a few more errors and fixed them all. 

I've just submitted what I am foolishly optimistic may be the final revision. If I'm right, our printer will send me a physical proof so that we can be sure about things like our paper choice. If we're lucky and we got it right, we can schedule it for printing. 

Fingers crossed. Thank you, so much, for your patience.

Cheers,
CTRO + EF,

PS: Some folks have been asking about an updated PDF edition. I'll get to this once we've moved into production so that I don't have to do another hellish loop of revisions and uploads there as well. I've got no idea how to do interlinking in a PDF, but hopefully we can make that happen so that the PDF is more useful. Glumdark was very much designed to be used as a physical book, but we want to make the PDF as good as possible.