Writing Forward, Writing Back

I'm deep in the middle of writing Mockingbirds2, the first novel I've written under contract. Which means it's the first novel I have an official, publisher-declared deadline for. If you're keeping track, that deadline is August.

Gulp.

Yes. August. As in three months from now.

But I have never met a deadline I couldn't meet, so the deadline doesn't scare me. What's interesting though is how to approach said deadline. Knowing the book is going to wind up in very specific hands and in front of v...