Connor Cochran here. I'm President and Publisher of Conlan Press, Producer of The Last
Unicorn Screening Tour, and have been working with Peter S. Beagle since 2001.
I wanted to reach out personally to share some challenging news, tell you what's going on
with your order, and introduce you to Ashley Keefer, who will be helping you directly from
here.
THE BAD NEWS
In May I learned that Peter was having serious memory problems. Business and personal matters
that he and I had worked on for years were completely gone from his head, and in addition he
was confabulating -recalling only fragments of events, then filling in the blanks with things
that never happened. I immediately suspended the screening tour, because I wasn't going to
ask Peter to travel in his condition. Since then I've been handling a series of rolling
mini-crises that couldn't be ignored.
I won't go into detail here for privacy reasons, but anyone who has experienced something
like this with an elder friend, family member, or co-worker will understand when I say that
dealing with this development has been complicated, exhausting, and incredibly
time-consuming. Even now, after three hard months, we don't know the cause of Peter's problem
or whether anything can be done about it.
What has become clear is that Peter isn't going to get better soon. That fact has forced a
lot of changes.
One of the biggest changes is that Peter isn't going to be able to complete any of the
signing or personalizing he promised when you made your purchase. We need to make adjustments
for that, and you will have to let us know your choice among the available options.
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