I’m almost done with the first collection of Crusade.
Unfortunately, I can’t publish and almost-complete book, so I’m letting the publication date slide a bit.

The delay mostly comes from working on the cover. I wanted to create something original, not because I’m the world’s greatest cover designer but because covers cost money AND I needed a design that I could use for future Crusade collections with only slight modification. My first few attempts at this turned out horrible, but now I’ve got something that is good enough. I’ll be putting the finishing touches on that tonight.

After that, it’s just a matter of formatting and converting the text, writing some author’s notes, and performing miscellaneous publication tasks. If this were a weekend I could have all that done in a day. But since I’ve gotta pay bills the old fashioned way, it’s going to take another few days to piece together the time to get it all done.

With all the “heavy lifting” done after today, I should have the book published this weekend, although I’m really shooting for before.

Sorry to disappoint.