My content editor, Josh Hoade, is through the first act and working on the second. Once we're both done, it goes to my final editor, Ashley Daoust, then I format and publish. I'll throw it up as soon as it's ready, and right now it looks like I'm going to beat my March 2013 deadline (I published Villain on 3/28/12).
This version will come out of the gate after Ashley's edit so we won't experience the problems from the first book, where readers found a ton of stupid grammatical errors. I didn't expect anyone to read the thing, so I didn't think to worry about a professional edit. My mistake.
Erik Von Lehman is hard at work on the cover, and I'm including his first sketch of some of the interior art. I just love how he draws Blackjack and Apogee.
More in a bit!
Hurray! Would you be willing to publish an eARC too (electronic advance reader copy)? Baen/webscriptions have done so, allowing readers (addicts) to get their fix at the price of slightly worse grammar/spelling errors, occasional scenes not then added to final version, etc. But seriously looking forward to this (in fact, just reread Blackjack Villain in anticipation).
ReplyDeleteThanks for writing such an awesome series!