Thank You So Much, Maggie and Everyone!
Yesterday, fellow Marylander and fashion queen Maggie Weber (RefashionedHippie) posted a video review of a few chocolate bars we sent her via snail mail. As of now, the video has almost 140K views on Facebook. And we’ve been overwhelmed with new orders! I don’t have the words to thank Maggie enough, and everyone who has placed orders, looked at our website, followed us on social media, asked us questions, and all our loyal customers.
While we are extremely thrilled for all these new orders, this all happens to come at an incredibly busy time for us, including my (Geri’s) wedding, Irene’s (irenezweigart.com) art gallery show at Andra Norris Gallery (andranorrisgallery.com), and BookCon in New York City!
Please know, we are (and will be) working extremely hard to fulfill your orders.
We’ve had over 200 orders since Sunday (yesterday), and there are still new orders coming in. This is about the size of an average Open Book Chocolates Kickstarter campaign, and will probably grow even bigger than that. We are just two people (Geri and Irene) fulfilling all these orders, in addition to preparing for BookCon (April 18th and 19th) and all our upcoming in-person Open Book Chocolates events this spring.
We will do our best to keep up with orders, but please be patient.
I just wanted to give everyone an order fulfillment timeline, so you’ll have a better idea of when you’ll receive your order.
Also, I am in the process of answering everyone’s emails and messages. I stayed up last night until 2:00 a.m. answering what I could. I will try my best to get to everyone in a timely manner!
Thank you so much for your support and understanding! 📖🍫💖
Fulfillment Timeline
THIS WEEK: Currently, we are preparing our BookCon event supplies to be picked up by the shippers this coming Thursday, to deliver everything to the Javits Center in New York City. This is over 450 pounds of stuff that still needs to be loaded onto a shipping pallet. In between, we will be working on your orders.
NEXT WEEK: Phil and I are getting married! We’ve been planning our wedding for the past few years, and we’d like to be able to enjoy it with our friends and family as well as each other. So we probably won’t have time to get any orders out the first week of April.
POST-WEDDING, PRE-BOOOKCON (TWO WEEKS): We have almost everything prepared already for BookCon except for a few things here and there. The biggest task is to make hundreds (maybe thousands?) of prepackaged samples to give to BookCon attendees. So we’ll be busy chopping up bars and putting them into little, sealed baggies. In between, we will be working on your orders.
POST-BOOKCON: We will go into full gear fulfilling all 200+ orders from our online store (as well as orders from BookCon). Additionally, we have six in-person events lined up from April through August. So we’re going to be juggling a lot all through the summer!
Upcoming Events
Here at Open Book Chocolates, we’re very excited for our upcoming events April through August:
Saturday, April 18th through Sunday April 19th: BookCon in New York City
Friday, April 24th through Sunday, April 26th: Malice Domestic in Bethesda, Maryland.
Saturday, May 2nd: Annapolis Book Festival at Key School in Annapolis, Maryland.
Saturday, May 9th: Pop-Up at My Big Finds in Kentlands, Gaithersburg, Maryland.
Saturday, May 30th: Pop-up at Finist and the Owl (Bookstore) in Wilmington, Delaware — More Info Coming Soon!
Saturday, June 6th: Pop-Up at My Big Finds in Kentlands, Gaithersburg, Maryland.
Friday August 7th through Sunday, August 9th: Key City Steampunk Convention in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
