Last of the Red Hot Poppas is back from printing! The Poppas sub-site is up and ready for advance orders. It's also stock full of risque book close-ups.

The book has been in our hands now for over a week, and I think it's safe to say the production quality has met and exceeded our high standards. Kohiyama-san over here in Tokyo has been instrumental in pushing the final production through to meet our tight schedule.

Let me just quickly run through a list of things about the book:
1. It's very well made. The binding, the printing, the glue, the bookmark, the size of the signatures, the evenness of the ink ... It's all impeccable. If you were in any way disappointed with the build quality of Do You Know, Poppas goes back into old-school Kuhaku-esque well-madeness. In fact, I think it goes beyond the Kuhaku production quality. If you like well-made books, Poppas will not dissapoint.

2. The poster came out great. Poster?! We worked closely with Leslie Staub to get a great piece of art for the cover. Leslie produced a beautiful painting which everyone who purchases the book gets a full-sized reproduction of — one idea led to another and the cover ended up turning into an intricately folded A2 poster. That's another blog post in and of itself.

3. The papers all work really well together. We ended up using about five different papers in the book (cover, board-covers, end-papers, tobira, body-text) and (to much relief!), it feels singular and natural.

4. Because of all the papers and layers, working your way into this book is a weirdly sensual (in a book-gets-sexy kinda sense) journey in and of itself.

For now, check out the sub-site and don't forget to download the first chapter if you want a sneak peak at Jason Berry's great novel before ordering.