Sweet cuddly krakens, has it been a year since I updated this post? By gosh, it has. How embarrassing I am still working on this book, but I just passed 90% completion on the final draft. I would like to have been here sooner, but sometimes things take as long as they take.I know y'all have been waiting a long time. Soon, the final will go to the continuity editor for a final review, then it's on to the line editor to get it ready for it's final form.And speaking of that final form, we will have news soon. We hope.Dang, it's 2019 already? This time thing ... it's a pain in the ass.MOUNT FITZ ROY is now with our continuity editor. He's making sure the book lines up properly with all things in the Siglerverse continuum. It's a critical part of our editing process.We don't have a publication date in mind yet, but after the continuity edit comes the final draft.The first draft of MOUNT FITZ ROY is finished!The FITZ train keeps on a-truckin'.Happy holidays, y'all! We're closing in on the first draft of MOUNT FITZ ROY. We're over 160,000 words, and I think it will finish up at about 200,000 (that's about 800 paperback pages). We're hoping for a release in late 2018. The end is shaping up to be a real hum-dinger.I am chugging along on MOUNT FITZ ROY. We're at 115,000 words, and I'd say that we're about halfway done. Hopefully. That's about 350 paperback pages, so if I'm halfway done it could be a soul-crushing 700-page tome. Too damn big. Bigger than Earthcore , the first book in the duology.I hope that's just first-draft bloat. Most first drafts are longer than the final cut, but everything I've put in so far seems like it's important enough to keep. We will have to see how it goes.No estimate for when it will be done and in your hot little hands (or ears ... yes, you have hot ears).I hope you are giving yourself reading time this holiday season and enjoying the tales of your favorite storytellers. Take time to breathe, take time for yourself. You need care and feeding just as much as your friends and family do.-Scott-As you can see, we've added the cover art for MOUNT FITZ ROY. The cover artist is Scott E. Pond, a long-time design collaborator of mine. What do you think of this cover? I think it looks intimidating and spooky — good adjectives for this novel.I'm 40,000 words into the first draft. I am guessing the final draft will be about 120,000 words, although I'm really, really bad at estimating these things, even though I outline extensively.I'm enjoying the hell out of this. I think y'all are going to dig it.