Wow, been a while since my last update (from 8/2/18, a little over a month ago!  You can read it here) of the latest book in the Corrosive Knights series, Book #7…

At that time, I finished up all revisions of Draft #7 of the book and today I’m here to tell you I’ve finished the read through and pen/ink revision of Draft #8 and, starting very soon (either tomorrow, Sunday, or Monday) I’ll start putting all those revisions into the computer.  I expect this will take at least two weeks and then, you guessed it, it’s on to Draft #9.

Now that I’ve finished up this first stage of Draft #8 of the book, things are coming more and more into focus.  The book has pretty much all the elements it needs inside it.  Things “make sense” and all bits and pieces introduced are dealt with/concluded appropriately.

The book and the story I’ve presented, to my mind, absolutely rocks.

But… its not quite done yet.

There is still at least one section in particular which needs work, but otherwise some 80-90% of it now requires I make sure all the grammer/spelling is correct and the way these parts are presented is as crisp and propulsive -and poetic!- as I can make it.

Which brings us the next question: What’s the ETA of the release of this book?

For a very long while I was hoping to get the book released by November and, if that’s still possible, I very much would like it to happen.

But the reality is as follows: It’s September the 7th and for at least two more weeks, possibly a little more, I’ll be finishing off Draft #8 on the computer.  That will take us to close to the end of September.

I start reading the book again and doing the revisions on Draft #9 and, at best, that’ll take another two weeks followed by another two or so weeks to transfer the pen/ink revisions to my computer.  So, we’re looking at getting Draft #9 done near the end of October and, what comes after October?

Yeah.

I believe I’ll need to do a Draft #10 and, its quite possible, a Draft #11.  Maybe even a Draft #12.  My previous books took that many drafts but I believe this one is farther along and may not require quite that many.  That, however, is nothing more than an educated guess and until I get through the next two Drafts, I just won’t know for sure.

Regardless, even going by the most ambitious/hopeful prognostication, it looks tough to believe I’ll be done with this book by November.  Even if we’re talking very, very late November.

So… possibly a Christmas release?  If not that, a New Year’s release?

We’ll see.

Regardless, it won’t be much longer!