Well, we’ve almost made it. The book is proofread, the cover is done, the introduction is written, and I’ve just uploaded all the files to the printer. Assuming nothing goes sideways when they actually try to print the things, we should have the first actual paper copies in our hands by — well, I was hoping the end of this week, but it turns out that Print “On Demand” means Print “In 3-5 Business Days,” so: by the start of WisCon, anyway.

The bad news is that this doesn’t give us time to actually get the book into distribution by Memorial Day weekend, unless we want to trust that everything’s going to print just perfectly first time. Which might happen, but I don’t want to count on it. (If I had to bet on something going wrong, I’d bet on the maps coming out all pixilated. Which I could probably fix if I had to, but I’m hoping I won’t have to.)

That being the case, while we plan to have a handful of advance reader copies at WisCon, and to start getting the book out to reviewers shortly thereafter, we’ve decided to push the official release date back to the first of July — sooner if we can manage it, but we want to make sure quality doesn't suffer.

(And then I will never edit another anthology again.)

(No, this time I mean it.)

(No, really.)

(No! Enough with the robots!)

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P.S. The web site is updated, though, and that’s the important thing! I plan to add expanded pages for the two books soon — don’t want to lose all those juicy author bios — but this should keep people busy for a while.