Update (and it's about time)
Assuming that anybody really cares deeply enough about my work to have noticed (which, despite the possible naiveté inherent therein, I usually do), it has probably dimly bubbled to the attention of some of you that I haven't said anything in a while, either here or on the Book of the Face page.
For this, I apologise. Alas, while it may be among the most entertaining aspects of my life, my writing is not the most pressing or, perhaps sadly, the most important, and this has been reflected in the unscheduled media silence recently while I was concentrating on exam revision and the comforting of friends stressed out by exam revision and, on more than three occasions, the indiscriminate eating of ice cream while watching Marvel movies required to allow the parts of my brain burned out by exam revision to heal. And the occasional desperate prayer. Where 'occasional' is used ironically. You've all been there, you know the drill.
Aaaanyway, what with all of the above, approximately zero progress has been made in the last month either in the writing of Book IV or in the final editing of Book II. I also haven't actually spoken with my publisher in all that time, because the guy in charge of that is ALSO going through the above right now. BUT - and this is the actual important bit that my spiel was actually trying to get around to - I DO intend to keep to my vaguely-defined deadline.
Those of you eagle-eyed enough to notice and nerdy enough to care will already have picked up on my promise to release Book II "Summer 2013" - a season which, me being British, starts in about a week (although the fact that I am British ALSO means I will not notice the difference </obligatoryscottishweathergag>). At the moment, the book is over half-way through the final edit. I have two more exams next week, and a few obligations over the summer holidays (including two MORE exams, probably), and I need to leave myself time to confer with the publisher before the release date, so it looks like this thing is going to take a little while longer, but I refuse to let down Past Me by breaking his promise (seriously, it's so hard to see the little guy upset. Past Me is adorable. So young and optimistic and full of life).
Thusly: Probably August.
The official release date for Black, White and Shades of Mediochre is "Probably August".
The publisher will probably provide a more helpful one at some point. I leave you with a quote from the book in question which, while completely irrelevant, nonetheless amuses me:
“Again with the skeletal hordes. I hate the skeletal hordes!”
Peace out,
Calum P Cameron (The P Stands for Put-upon)
Actually Kind Of A Fan Of Skeletal Hordes
