Delays...

Okay, sitrep:
I finished the rough draft of TTT last Friday and sent it out to 4 Betas. I'm getting some input but it is slow. I am hoping to get it to the next line by this week. So, getting The Turning Tide out this month is a no. Sorry for getting your hopes up.

What sucks is next month is going to be insane with stuff coming out. (Thor, The Last Jedi, Agents of Shield, David Weber, etc) I'm a small fish with a lot of other big fish all schooling at the same time. Ugh. I'm either going to get eaten or ignored. Oh well, I'll deal with it as it comes.

Anyway, here is the cover. I just sent it to the Betas in a Beta Blast:

I did a scene from the book as usual. I left the explosions as stock since playing with the colors would have made them blend into the lettering.

 

-I am currently bouncing between various things, including updating my notes and adding scenes to Liberty or Death and Scout. I usually take a week off between writing manuscripts but since I'm behind I'm going to try to get into writing Scout sometime this weekend. It has morphed into a full novel from the short novella I'd expected. (yipe?)

 

-I think Wayne's ramping up to update the wiki. He got me to make and render an image of Admiral De Gaulte. I'm thinking about making more characters today. I have a rather long list which keeps getting added to for some reason. lol

 

-The writing schedule has changed. The current plan is to write Scout next. Shelby 2 Shiver Me Timbers has been pushed back to 2019 after Liberty or Death. (which has the Convoy chapter 35 scene in it and has been moved up to this year) I still don't know if I should start the Ragnarok series or finish the Founding series off.

 

-In printing news, I updated my Da Vinci Pro's hot end after the old head clogged up bad. The V6 head works well now that I've got the bugs out. I also added a way to print vendor filament to the 1.0 and it works too, though the filament is cheap. (and I bought 15kg of it!) 

   I was recently talked into trying to print a full size BB-8 for a friend for a birthday gift. (what can I say, I'm a sucker for a single lady who wheedles things out of me with batting eyes, giggles, and gives me a challenging grin)  

  Geesh! I found out the hard way that I could only print one up to 75% in size. She was okay with that. After a full day of printing I gave up. It would have taken 12 days to print the entire beast, (with both printers running 18 hours a day) then a ton of sanding, priming, sanding, filling, painting, gluing, etc. Some of the parts warped and the fit was bad too so I would have been forced to print do overs. I thought it'd run me $20 in filament... boy was I wrong! I re-ran the numbers and came up with $70 in filament. I pointed out that the same static thing (same size) is $45 on Amazon with sound fx and lights to her. Needless to say, it is coming in tomorrow. (yes the lazy man won) 

  I did print her a Porg earlier though, (it's a surprise) so I guess that's some commiseration. That is still in need of finish work, plus the other SW droid I printed for me is on the work bench in pieces. (I'm annoyed that I bought the wrong RC car for it and I found the blasted droid 2x bigger on Amazon for $65!) I'm waiting for the temperature to get above 50 degrees to glue, sand, patch, prime, sand again, and paint it. Pictures coming eventually.

 

That's it for now!