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Are any of your books printed inside?
Most of our books have approximately 50 blank pages inside. A Novel
Idea has started producing a small line of books with pictures and text
and those special books can be found in the Books With Printing section.
Why don't we offer more 'full text' books?
There are two major reasons why A Novel Idea avoids producing a lot of
books with printed pages. First, our books are intended to be an affordable
way to stock your miniature bookshelf or library shelves. Printing inside
the books dramatically increases their cost. Second, and the biggest
drawback, is the amount of text inside a full-sized novel. While we are
able to scale the length and width of the pages, we are unable to scale
the thickness of paper. Even with the lightweight paper we use for our
pages, we cannot fit more than approximately 50 pages in a single book.
And no matter how small we make the text, it is just not feasible to fit
an entire novel onto those few pages. So rather than produce highly abridged
versions of great novels, we prefer to keep our prices reasonable and
label our books 'For Display Only'.
Do we ever make 1:6th scale books?
At the moment, A Novel Idea produces only 1:12th scale and smaller books.
We are currently concentrating on expanding our library of titles in these small
scales, and that is keeping our elves plenty busy. But while we have no
immediate plans to expand into larger scales, that does not rule out the
possibility of producing them down the line.
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Our newest employee, Shadow, handles the quality control department.
No order leaves our premises without being personally inspected by him.
Weren't you once known as 'Santa's Workshop Miniatures?
Yes. We started out life over 15 years ago making strictly holiday
miniatures, and that's where that name fit in. Over the years however,
our elves needed something to keep them busy in the 'off-holiday season',
and they took to tooling the workshop with printing equipment. Slowly
but surely, the holiday miniatures were overtaken by the demand for high-quality,
low-cost miniature books.
So what now? We have changed our name to 'A Novel
Idea', which was a wonderful suggestion that came from renowned miniaturist
Alice Zinn. It may take a little while to phase out the old identity,
but rest assured that we have not changed hands, we are merely moving
forward with the times. Our books will continue to be produced with the
same love and care they always have.
Will "A Novel Idea" continue to offer any holiday
miniatures?
Of course! Since we have spent so many years building up our network
of holiday miniature artisans, as well as honing our own tree-decorating
skills, we will periodically retool the workshop to concentrate on holiday
miniatures. Check our website frequently for new artisan miniatures; quantities
will be limited and they tend to sell quickly.
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