I always remember W. C. Fields saying, “It was a woman that drove me to drink, and I never got a chance to properly thank her.” In my case the woman is my latest book.
I’m working hard to get this new book in your hands, or on your computer, iPad or iPhone. But the gears are moving slowly. Here is the amazing thing. I wrote the guts of this story in six weeks. That was the quickest part. Editing and polishing has taken almost four months. After that process the finished manuscript, which is in Microsoft Word, has to be professionally formatted for the printed editions and digitally encoded for the various eBook editions. The Kindle requirements for example are different from Nook requirements or the Apple iBook format.
The pipeline is flowing very slowly right now. The formatter has said than I am in the production slot for April 8 with a 3 to 5 day turnaround. The eBook editions follow about a week later. Once the formatting company has done its work, the formatted manuscript goes to Ingram for printing and distribution. I’m just hoping that the presses keep rolling.
Here is a reminder of what you are waiting for:
The Outer Space Treaty prohibits nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons from being placed in or used from Earth’s orbit. What no one could have imagined was that mankind would conceive of the simplest weapon ever deployed – one with extinction power – to launch from space. The military named this weapon “Rods from God.” And yet, it’s not nuclear, biological, or chemical. Two women drone pilots battle in outer space to defend their country. One is a former fighter pilot who, after a crash, now flies from a wheelchair. This dynamic female drone crew from Nashville, Tennessee, now based in Florida, is drafted to defend the United States from a rogue military element threatening to use force to stop the impeachment of the president. Their weapons are twenty-foot tungsten rods. A single rod dropped from orbit would strike Earth at ten times the speed of sound with the impact of a nuclear weapon. As weapons are readied, our heroines find they are Beyond Visual Range.
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