I may make my July 31st publication date...

I submitted APoS-NWFO to the LOC for copyrighting...and also submitted to get an LCCN for the card catalogue listing. Then I set up a page on BookLife for this volume and began reformatting it into an ebook to send into Publishers Weekly to (hopefully) get a review. That is up to them, and they rejected the first volume. But you never know.

The rest of the day's been taken up working on linking the Table of Contents to each chapter. That. Is. TEDIOUS!!!! It's a three-step process, in Word. Bookmark each chapter title. Hyperlink from each listing in the ToC to its corresponding chapter. Then hyperlink back to the ToC. And it not only has to be done right, but there's crap that comes with it that must be deleted.

So I'm about halfway done, but the good thing about this is it's also a way of verifying everything is in order...and lo and behold, I found a fuckup in the Table of Contents. I'd left out a chapter heading and mis-aligned the page numbers, after it. It's wrong on the copyright submission, but that's not important. The text is what counts, there. And that isn't changing...

Unless, of course, the person doing the proofing finds another fuckup. Which is not unimaginable.

Once all this is done, I'll be ready to set the book up with Smashwords and then, having the book jacket set, Ingram. And I can get onto volume three.

I'm going to do something rather arrogant. I was in contact with the Pulitzer Committee and learned I have until October 15th to submit APoS, if i want to. The two published volumes and a pdf of what I've got done on Home Not Home. And I'm going to do it. I know I have no chance against the big-boy books that get submitted, but just taking the chance is important to me, and to Brendan.

So I need to get my ass in gear and do better than my best...as if I haven't already.