Hey, folks.

It has come to my attention that some folks who preordered have not got their Full PDF Preview. If you didn’t specify another email address, the download link was sent to your paypal email account, which, it turns out, is usually an old address that people don’t check any more. Go fig.

So if you’re missing your PDF Preview, shoot me a mail at sales atta kallistipress dotter com and we’ll try and get things straightened out.

It’s finally time to run up the flag and see who salutes.

Full Light, Full Steam, a 192-page digest (6″x9″) hardbound, is now available for preorder. When you preorder, you get both the book when it’s released at GenCon SoCal in November as well as the PDF immediately (”immediately” being defined as “when I check my mail and send it to you”). If you’re coming to GenCon SoCal, you can pick up your copy at the con.

If, for reasons beyond understanding, you’ve been reading this blog and you don’t know what Full Light, Full Steam is, you can take a look at the webpage or click on the Full Light, Full Steam category to the right for design notes.

I’m kind of dizzy.

Final art for Full Light, Full Steam is in, thanks to Lemuel Pew (of Lethal Doses) and Kirk Mitchell. It’s a perfectly awesome experience to see what has until now been only text and talk turn into such incredible images.

Here’s three of the eight big illustrations in the book:

Figure 1.1 Lieutenant Hargrave occupies the attention of the pirate “Admiral” Black while HMS Chesterfield sees to his “fleet.”

Figure 1.2 A saboteur wreaks havoc in the motor room of HMS Puncher.

Figure 4.1 Crewmen aboard HMS Aetherstone take a moment for tea.

Preorders begin later this week! Madness!

This was the day when it all became real. Everything went from theoretical and well-intentioned plans and turned into actions.

• Kallisti Press is now a legal entity, as of this morning.
• Kallisti Press has a bank account, as of this afternoon.
• I have finalized the last week of my production schedule.
• As of this evening, I have a final draft of the book, laid out, with art, to do a final proofread on.
• I’ve chosen a printer, and as of tomorrow, I’ll have a place on their calendar.

Today was that part of the roller coaster when you just crest the top of the first hill, your stomach floats up into your throat, and you realize exactly how high up you are. Which also means, I suspect, that the ride is just starting.

Holy shit.