u/olanrogersofficial

Hey Team Squad,

I have a bunch of updates.

We’re making solid progress in Canada, the UK, and Ireland, with about 200 books out in each of those countries. In total got out around 700 from Nashville, that includes a bunch of re-ships.

The Ireland re-ships through UPS went really well. We watched about 300 orders make it into the country. That said, I still don’t fully trust UPS. Dealing with them has been a constant headache. I’ve seen every genre of tracking data, from comedy to horror to pure suspense.

We’ve closed out 36 countries, including all of Central America, Mexico, Argentina, and many more. (Honestly, I have no idea how some of them were even able to watch the show.)

Something new: closing countries in the store
Starting now, every time we close out a country, the book will no longer be available to order there. It’s been on sale for over three years, and the main reason for this change is simple: I want the number of remaining orders to keep getting smaller. So if your country isn’t on the closed list yet, order now before it closes.

I want to wrap this project up. That’s my sole driving force. All the countries listed below are now closed for NOVELS on the site:

Mexico, Argentina, Indonesia, Israel, Colombia, Chile, Kenya, Croatia, Kazakhstan, Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Georgia, Jordan, Kuwait, Guatemala, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Paraguay, Moldova, Bahrain, Côte d’Ivoire, Namibia, Maldives, Barbados, Bermuda, Trinidad & Tobago, Liechtenstein, Gibraltar, Aruba, Tajikistan, Brunei, Réunion, Faroe Islands, Falkland Islands

Coming next week

Another 34 countries will start closing next week, including China, Finland, Iceland, Japan, South Africa, Romania, and more.

Once that’s done, only 23 countries will remain. That includes the big five: Canada, the UK, Australia, Germany, and France. The show was REALLY popular in those countries, so there are simply many more orders to get through.

We’re attacking it from every angle possible.

This has been by far the most difficult project I’ve ever taken on, and I’ve learned a ton. My in-laws have come up to help, and my dad has been packing books. It’s all hands on deck.

We’ve now shipped over 48,000 books, which is over 26 million printed pages. More than 10,000 of those went out from Nashville alone. If I hadn’t worked out the loophole deal with the Macmillan team, we’d probably be somewhere around 15,000. Warner set this up for me to fail. They did not want it to succeed.

I wouldn’t be me if I didn’t share the bad along with the good.

Shopify has put a hold on my sales again. Yes, again.
When I launched the pre-order back in 2023, they held my funds for an entire year because they didn’t allow pre-orders at the time. (They do now. That’s also why I don’t use PayPal Business anymore, since they don’t support pre-orders either. They canceled my account.)
Now Shopify has placed another percentage hold on sales for another 120 days because they say I’m not shipping fast enough. It just means were in Act 3 of a great story, the dark night of the soul part and that the end is close....

Macmillan has also hit their busy season, so Final Space isn’t at the top of their priority list right now. Big authors are releasing books left and right, so as we plan which books to send out through Macmillan, things have slowed down a bit, for understandable reasons. (Raises fist like angry old man) Curse those successful authors with actual publishing deals.

This is still VERY much a priority for me, I’m still fighting, every single day. It feels like fighting a massive monster in the dark. Every swipe takes a chunk out of it making him smaller and smaller. On the other side is the light of the tunnel.

The crazy part is that after the third Warner merger, I don’t think anyone involved in the original Final Space deal is even there anymore. So maybe it’s time to get a little creative and say screw the deal I'm going to do what I need to do to finish this.

Thank you. Those of you who have sent me words of encouragement throughout all this, I’m telling you it means so much.

I’ll say it until the end of time: thank you for your patience.

On October weekend of 17th and 18th, I’ll be in France for a pretty cool festival.

Hey Team Squad,
Olan here. I'm making a full video next week, I’ve just haven’t had time to sit down, but I wanted to get you another shipping update.

USA: 100% done. Every US order has shipped, up through this Wednesday. That's about 20,000 orders. All my focus is on international now.

Lately it's been about half re-ships for lost packages from UPS and half pushing out the last pre-orders. Our focus is closing out one country at a time.

UK: Got about 200 orders this week for UK.
Ireland: UPS confirmed they lost this batch, waiting on a re-credit from them. Every lost Irish order will be re-shipped. We re-ship a solid 100 from Nashville waiting on that re-credit.

Canada & Australia: Each is down to its last ~1,000 orders.

Austria, Czechia & others: Some UPS packages were shipped but never arrived.

The problem is UPS is Macmillan's only carrier they use. And that's the only partner I got right now.

So now the rest of the international is on me in Nashville using DHL and Global Post. We switched to Global Post and DHL here and have seen LOTS of success with both, so that's what we're using going forward. Only problem with that were just slower. We pack every book in multiple layers of protection, which takes a lot longer than the industry standard of tossing a book in a box.

If your tracking stopped with UPS updating or your package never showed up, just contact us [DM / email] and we'll put you on the re-ship list.

Every day the number of remaining orders gets smaller. I'll say it again and again: thank you for your patience.
I've seen other creators releasing books hit the same issues, but I can tell you none of them have been shipping their own books for months on end. I will be here until the very end, however long it takes. I will get every last book out. I will see this dang thing through to the very end. Back to shipping.

Olan

Happy Final Space Friday,

Got a few updates for you. First, I was only able to pack/ship 350 orders myself this week from the Nashville side. Macmillan got about about 2,000 a few days ago. Im going to keep working through the weekend. I have more help coming today! BUT were under 10,000 orders left. We also have shipped out so many orders we’re trying to make sure all our data between MacMillan and Nashville are the same.

But my nights this week, which are usually filled with packing has been watching my dog, Tardis, my Mooncake…she has not been not not doing great and I’ve been staying up all night try to watch her. We’ve been to the vet five times over the past few days, during the day and night. She is very old, we got her in 2012. She’s been called covered in hives, stopped eating and has been throwing up and even had blood in her poop. Vets can’t figure it out.

This dog has burrowed into my soul. I know the day is coming where I’m going to have to say goodbye but it just cannot be today or tomorrow or ever. As I write this shes off to stay at the vet all day as they try to figure out what’s wrong.

So I sincerely apologize, I usual doing about 12-13 hour days,
this week has been a rough one. I did also manage to send out a bunch of test orders viva different carriers to see which gets through the EU customs first. So far none have gotten through when I see when break through I’m going to switch to that carrier.

I’m planning a trip to Virginia to grab a bunch of books to drive back with them to Nashville so we can finish the lost and missing orders, damages.

I’m trying to get a couple hours sleep and then get I’m going to get back to work. Thank you for the patience. We’re so dang close

Updates on all sorts of things.

Happy Sunday Night Update. Lots of packing over the weekend. Massive chunk of Midnights and Battle Worns going out tomorrow. Working on getting a big shipment of Pre-Orders to Nashville from Virginia, so we can start on replacements while MacMillian continues forward on Wave 1. We’re so dang close to this finish line, I’m going to keep working until the last book is out day or night, weekday or weekend. 🫡 Onwards! -O

Happy Final Space Friday!
Lots to update on.

We’re so close to finishing shipping. We’re just waiting on the next tracking list from MacMillan. They usually send them in batches of 6,000 to 7,000 orders, so we should get the next list sometime next week.

We’re now into the 40,000s, which is awesome. In fact, at the past few tour stops, everyone who was still waiting on an order had order numbers in the high 40,000s to low 50,000s, so we’re getting really close to the 2026 orders.

There are still some orders that have been lost, are stuck in customs, or were returned to sender and unfortunately destroyed. International orders still seem to be getting caught in these weird customs queues, and unfortunately, there’s nothing we can do about that, that’s entirely a government process. I know the new EU regulations that went into effect on July 1 have also created a bit of a bottleneck.

Once WAVE 1 is complete...

WAVE 2 is all about getting replacement orders out.

This is a normal part of shipping something on this scale. The unexpected happens. We once had a Mooncake plush travel the entire globe before finally arriving at its destination in the United States. It showed up three months later...I still have no idea how that's even possible.

Once we hand a package over, it's in the hands of the carriers. We've shipped with UPS, USPS, FedEx, and DHL, and honestly...they're all about the same.

We are going to get your replacements to you. We just have to finish this first wave, and we're sooooo dang close to WAVE 2.

Midnight Editions are moving, and Battle Worn editions are moving too. We're just a much smaller operation, and the way we pack these is drastically different. More protection means more packaging, and more packaging takes more time. A big batch will be going out next week, so keep an eye out.

I guess this is part of the update too... headaches. All the time now. Tension headaches in the back of my head. I've still got a little fuel left in the tank, but I can definitely feel the fumes. Meeting all of you on these tour stops has given me the energy to keep going. Maybe I did Part 1 of the tour a little early because I needed to refill the tank to actually see where all this hard work has been going.

One fan told me she "put Final Space on when the pain became too much to bear.

Man...I wanted to move a mountain for her. Moments like that make me want to keep going. Thank you for your patience. Thank you for the kind words.

The only way I can describe this project is like climbing Everest. The closer I get to the top, the less oxygen and energy I have. But when I finally get there... I think the view is going to be incredible.

I'll continue not posting any spoilers until everyone has their books.

If you're having issues with your order, please message us through the contact form on the website. It helps us keep everything organized. I just don't have the bandwidth to manage order issues across all the different social media accounts at once.

Anyway...thank you.

The job isn't done.

We keep going. -Olan

Thank you to all of you for coming out in Ottawa, hearing people laugh at the show again was so special. The standing ovation after we watched episode 1 & episode 36, you almost got me crying haha it’s a core memory now. Thank you and Thank you to Jamfilled for sponsoring this and it looks like they are going to help out with a Toronto event as well. More soon!

OH. MY. WOW.

I just got asked to take over the @laughfactorysandiego at San Diego Comic-Con for a couple hours! 🤯 I did not have Final Space at Comic Con in 2026 on my bingo card haha

Im going to tell a few live stories, screen Episode 1 and Episode 36, do maybe a little Q&A, and then a meet-up afterward.

The best part? It’s FREE! (Just a two-drink minimum that’s all they ask) TICKETS ARE ON THE FINAL SPACE SITE RIGHT NOW.

Seriously, any opportunity I get to meet you all, I’m taking it. These are some of my favorite moments, talk, laugh, and celebrate this crazy journey together. I’m also coming to France this fall with @daztibbles and then after London I’ll take a two week break and we’ll start planning Part 2 of the book tour.

More updates on shipping soon too! -O

If you’re going to SDCC, come by! I can’t wait to see you all there.

Exhausted that has found new meanings for me. I’m so tired all the time. I feel like Frodo at the end of Return of the King when he says “I can’t recall the taste of food, nor the sound of water, nor the touch of grass.”

But I got updates. We’re going to see this through the very end. You have the patience of Kings and Queens. Thank you.

We updated an additional 7,000 tracking info a few days ago. We get these at the top of each week.

We’re entering the order numbers in the #40,000’s I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. Yes, tracking comes a bit later because we’re doing things manually because of the two different systems from MacMillian and us.

Once we’re done, we’re going to do a whole round of replacements. We just have to get through the 1st round shipments. We’re 85% to 90% done with shipping on our end. Now shipping is different than receiving, the new wondrous wrinkle we’re seeing is customs, lots of novels are sitting in customs, I guess some laws have changed on July 1st. This is something I can’t control and I know nothing about as well.

It’s been awesome to see so many get the novel across the world. Appreciate the continued patience. There so much I want to discuss and post once we’re all done. I’m not posting any spoilers or anything until we get all the novels out but also until people read the novel. And then I got a whole wave of things I have ready to post.

It’s been so awesome to hear almost everyone say they are re-watching the show before the dive into the book.

Daz is working on the 2nd expansion part. It’s looking great.

Onwards! -O