Still broken but working

I took one day of no writing and managed to clean my house pretty well. I got some good work done yesterday and I think I am in the homestretch. At just under 98,000 words, I will probably have to come up with a bit more content to meet my minimum expectations of that I and my readers desire for book length. I had stated that I won't release any book in this series with less than 100,000 words, but really I want at least 110,000 to stay in line with the other books of the series. There is plenty for me to work with without sounding like I'm adding fluff or filler or going on a tangent. I just need to focus more on dialog and character interactions more instead of continually advancing the storyline at a faster pace than necessary. It's tough to do.

One other news, I am in talks with a professional artist and designer to rework some covers. I still want to go over book 1 again and clean it up. I have yet to feel comfortable with it. I'm not sure what exactly I'm going to do. Just reading over it recently I noticed a difference in my delivery, voice, and scene descriptions. Hopefully I can bring it up to at least the level of my later books and get it into print. The two books I have in print haven't sold diddly squat so I hope it's not a waste of time.