trade editions are done (well, 12 of them at least) and ready to ship! i'll list them here for sale as soon as i pick them up from the post office. the price will be $9 for the trade edition and $20 for the signed edition (and $75 for the amazing hardcovers, but those are now sold out).
i'm pretty happy with the trades - i found some cardstock-weight vellum to use as the wrapper over a piece of laid cardstock to give the book some weight, and it looks cool. i was going to laser-print the covers directly on vellum, but our printer was acting up, so i ordered a giant tube of black gocco ink from japan and screenprinted them. the ink doesn't really soak into the paper like it does on normal paper, so the cover almost looks like it has been hand lettered - it has a neat, rough quality to it that wouldn't be there if i had laser printed them (luckily we didn't fix the laser printer until after i ordered the gocco ink). the downside is that the ink doesn't totally set - you'll likely never notice it, since it is dry to the touch, but if you rub it with an eraser, you can get it to smear. just to be safe, each book will be shipped in a folded piece of mylar to protect the cover printing. and if you have a problem with it, just buy the signed edition for $20!