Hello everyone, welcome to 2018!
Work on Blood Capital has been progressing at pace since NYE and we are now close to completing the developmental edits (at last!). Check the progress chart below and you can see I’ve almost completed the rewrite, and that all of Acts One and Two have had my second pass. Once this is complete, it should just be a matter of getting the final development notes from my editors and incorporating them, then we move into copy editing (grammar and spelling).
Everyone has been wonderfully patient with me over the past year, and that has made this process so much easier. Thank you. I’m aware the journey has been long — I had no idea how long it would be when I entered the competition back in 2016. To provide an idea of the work behind the scenes, I’ve been averaging almost 18 hours a week on the novel, which multiplied out over nine months (roughly how long I’ve been working on edits), adds up to more than six hundred hours so far. 
We are now on the home straight, and Blood Capital is set for release at the end of July. A marketing plan is coming together to support the launch, and I’ve now seen an early version of the cover art. As soon as the cover art is finalized, I’ll send out a special update, but for now I can tell you it’s going to stand out on shelves.
Cheers,
Robert
https://robertbatten.net
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Are there currently any topic moderators on the forums at all? A.C Weston and Joe Terzieva are still listed in the forum as topic moderators, but I don’t believe either of them are still active on Inkshares at all, and last I knew they weren’t even still able to edit or remove forum posts. Currently the only way to get a random spam post removed is to tag Elena or Thad, and knowing how many other responsibilities they have, it seems like an unfortunate waste of their time to have to bother them with every spambot post.
Are community moderators a thing anymore, and if not, could they be?