Page Proofs!

Hey, here's another bit of proofing for me. And proof that The Sacred Band really is heading your way! I just received the first pass pages of the manuscript. These are the pages formatted as they will in the book. It's the real thing!

They look like this:



I put Maya to work on proofreading them. Such a keen eye she has. Together, we've actually found a typo! That's a start. There will likely be more that we don't catch, but oh well. This will go back to Doubleday in a few days, and they'll give it the once over again.

I'm please to say that the thing reads like a book. A real book. A conclusion to a trilogy! Yahoo!

I also just heard that galleys are on the way to me. That'll be something. To hold the book in hand. (In case you're wondering, the galleys are produced before the final final text. There will be small changes made in the final edition. It's one of the reasons, actually, that galleys are cool. They give a glimpse of the almost finished book.)

So, things roll on...