Sunday, September 5, 2010

... 22 weeks later, complete

Twenty four chapters, twenty two weeks. That's a rap (wrap?) on the online edition of COT-R.

It's great to have it all online finally, but I won't feel super-great until I've heard from some readers who have actually finished the whole thing. I know at least two are at chapters 19 or 20 or so, but I imagine most aren't nearly that far. I have one new reader who has been devouring the novel at two to four chapters a day (she started less than a week ago) so I have a feeling she'll be the first to make it to the end. (Maybe I can even talk her into writing a little review of it! Ooo.)

I want to give big news on the print version, but all I have are excuses. I want the fellow who is doing the fancy format job to get a chance to finish, but he's not the type that has a ton of free time. Lists of errors continue to flow in, so even after I have everything nice and formatted there's still going to be some time/work to see all of those edits done. Only two of the six covers are totally finished, with a third very nearly done and a forth started. So, as you can see, it's still going to be some time. It will happen, though.

3 comments:

ehcmier said...

Closer and closer...

What a journey, eh? Overall, a more than admirable milestone.

Olivier 'LuaPineapple' Hamel said...

I've finally had the chance to finish it, and although the shift from mostly-canon to canon-plus-whatever-we-throw-in was more or less jarring at first, you tied it together so well at the end I didn't mind. Overall it was well worth it, though some parts are noticeably duller than others.

Dan said...

It sounds like you didn't really care for it. Why did you keep reading?