Right my dears,
Here is the full story on the cards.
Waterstones requested 4 cards to go in with the books. The cards they chose were Rincewind, Librarian,Charlie and the Luggage. Of these the Luggage
is exclusive to Watersones and has their logo. The sharp eyed amongst you have spotted that these cards are from a series of 15 and this is because initially we were producing a set of 15 cards.
The Waterstones cards were printed a month or so before we printed ours and in the meantime Paul Kidby had his pencil flying at the speed of light
and kept coming up with ideas that Terry liked. So we held back at a mere 20 cards except...Paul also slipped in a couple of substitues, namely Bernie the Bolt and Paul The Other One, which we added to our print run.
Our standard pack of 20 cards includes the 19 players listed and the Luggage who is not allowed to play.
The Football LBEs contained all of these 20 cards plus the 2 substitutes plus the 3 non-exclusive Waterstones (set of 15 cards)
We are giving away the substitute cards with copies of Unseen Academicals sold from the shop/website
So far, so straighforward-ish
The final bit of serendipity if you can call it that, is that some very good friends helped us pack some of the card sets for sale. It was only after they had done a box full, that we realised that they'd included the substitutes in the packs.
I looked at Bernard, Bernard looked at me, it was late, we were tired and we both said sod it, lets give them a treat. So some of you have a treat.
Any of you who missed out and would like the 2 substitute cards have only to mention it when next you order and we'll supply them FOC
Hope this answers all the queries, if not I'll try again.
Isobel