We had hoped that our third CD, Most Folk Heroes Started Out As Criminals, would be out by now. We submitted money and the master to the manufacturer in June, and the usual manufacturing time is ten to fifteen business days. But we’re no closer to having our CDs now than we were six weeks ago.

We paid a company in Portland, Maine, called EkoDisk to manufacture the CDs. I had done a previous project with them, and was happy with the results. This time, though, it’s been different. David Phillips of EkoDisk has gladly taken our money, but he has utterly failed to produce the CDs we paid him for. What’s more, he has behaved like a coward, refusing to answer his phone or email for six weeks, hiding behind the distance that lies between Chicago and Portland, Maine.

So this week we started over again, nearly $2000 poorer, with DiscMakers. And we’ll have our discs in a few weeks. In the meantime, I have the pleasure of dealing with Visa and PayPal to attempt to recover the funds that Phillips absconded with.

If you’d like to ask David where our CDs are, you can send him a note at via EkoDisk.com’s contact page.