I finished the copy edit on ATST and turned it in Turday night. (Well, actually very, very, very early Friday, but with enough coffee . . . .)
There was a delay because of a bad email address n the copy edit file sent to me initially, but I think we squeaked in an eyelash ahead of the drop-dead-deadline. Which means that unless something else goes spectacularly wrong, the book should make its November release.
Now, one thing that's likely to happen is that there are going to be some typos in here that got past all of us in the rush to get into prnt. Everyone's doing his or her best to make sure that doesn't happen, but (unlike Merlin and Nimue) we're merely human and (unlike Nahrmahn and Nimue) we don't have high-speed data access. So I'm afraid something can be counted upon to get past us. Nonetheless, Tor is doing an outstanding job to hit their deadline with such a late turn-in, and they deserve much credit for it.
By my count, the submission draft runs to 323,000 or so words, which does not include the glossary. Unlike the earlier books, there's no character list in there, either. I was afraid people would hurt themselves picking it up if we included it in this one. Also, because of the rush to production, there will most likely not be time for me to proof the maps before they go to press, so we may see some small errors there.
Ideally, in a month or three (once my brain has a chance to settle down), I'll be posting a complete character list for the entire series and a scalable electronic version of the master map here on the site. There are a couple of problems with the map we need to see if we can figure out; some terrain features which are still there aren't there, so to speak, and I have a couple of people trying to figure out what the heck happened. If they can't, I'll have to rework those portions of the map to replace them, and that will mean things will move around at least a little and may affect things like measurements on the micro-scale, but at least it will finally let you play with the (so-far) mapped terrain.
Hopefully.
All things are, of course, subject to change if the Demon Murphy once more visits my computer system!
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