Ok guys, I’m completely lost on inkshares, and have discovered modern media has surpassed my ability to keep up, but.... I’m going to try something. I have another hilarious snippet to add, but it’s so good, I’m reluctant to share it. I have to be convinced. So please, feel free to convince me.

Monthly Update time! Short and simple. As the next Nerdist contest fires up into it’s first weekend, I can peel back the veil of what happens as your book enters production. Here are some dates I have:

2/5 – Editorial letter with comments due to AU

2/15 – Author revisions due to dev editor

3/5 – Line edited MS due to author

3/12 – Author revisions due to dev editor

3/15 – Clean dev edit due

4/19 – CEMS due for author review

5/3 – Author review of CEMS due

5/10 – Clean CEMS due to Proofer

5/26 – Proofread due

6/7 – Author review of Proof due

7/12 – Format proof due

7/19 – Format proof review due

7/22 – Interior digital proof due

7/29 – Interior digital proof approved

8/11 – Mechanicals (final files to printer)

8/25 – Ebook files due for review

8/31 – Ebook changed due from AU

1/10/2017 – Pub date

See that Pub Date?! It feels so far away, but that’s a lot of neat stuff I get to do leading up to it. Now, this is just on the side of the written word. Here are some more dates that go into this: 

3/7 – R1 cover concepts due

3/21 – R1 feedback due

4/4 – R2 covers due

4/18 – R2 feedback due

5/2 – R3 covers due

5/16 – Final front cover approved

5/23 – Spine and back cover R1 due

6/14 – Spine and back cover approved

7/27 – Final cover layout approved

8/5 – Digital proof due

8/9 – Digital proof approved

8/11 – Mechanicals (final files to printer)

AND even after this, there is a marketing schedule as well! But I don’t have any dates for that stuff yet. Just a plan. In the middle of all of this, I’ll start writing the sequel: The Rise of Dystopia. 

The next update I’ll try videos, pictures, and music to show some of the themes I used when writing the book. You can find me on Twitter @CrankyBolt and on Facebook /CrankyBolt as well. Reach out to me if you have any questions about this entire process. As always, if you are a backer, and would like a copy of the manuscript early, email me: CrankyBolt@gmail.com and I’ll send you whatever current revision I’m on. 

Hello everyone!

The re-writes and fixes are moving along nicely and I’m definitely on track to hand the manuscript over to Inkshares in May… Then the work of turning it into a real physical book really kicks off!

In the meantime, I wrote a piece for John Robin’s World Builder series that will give you a little bit more insight into the setting I’ve created. The map is still a work in progress, but a more polished version of it will likely find its way into the book. Go take a look!

Inkshares is running a series contests with Nerdist and Geek and Sundry over the coming months - first up is Space Operas! Lots of great books to check out both in the contest and out. 

A couple of contest books that already caught my eye are Christopher Leone’s Champions of the Third Planet and Jake MacMillan’s Dangerous Thoughts; As different from each other as they could be and still be in the same genre, but both well worth a look and a pre-order!

And let’s not forget all the other great books that are still funding on the site! A couple that I’d like to recommend in particular:

-For the epic fantasy fans, John Robin’s Blood Dawn is a must.

-For anyone looking for a good laugh (and I mean is seriously funny!), Billy O’Keefe’s These are my Friends on Politics is for you!

More updates as stuff happens! Likely every month or so :)

I’m going to be talking about this topic a lot more in the next few weeks, but with all the other fellow Inkshared books releasing soon, consider this my opening salvo.