Not a lot of progress today: I’m still kind of stressed & distracted, which is bad because actual writing requires the most focus. But I did realize that there was a minor continuity issue that would be easier to fix in Tribulations than in Trials, so I did that.
And I could do that because I still haven’t given Tribulations to the copy editor. In this unfortunate age, it feels really weird to do basic stuff like ask someone when they’re going to be done with A Dislocated World. But I figured since the holidays & election & coup attempt were over, I would go ahead and ask. Not shockingly, the copy editor has been occupied & distracted, and he actually forgot about it (!), but he is expecting to get it back to me fairly soon.
I wasn’t planning to lay out A Dislocated World, but then I realized after a few conversations that much of the older generation in my family can’t use e-books. So it would honestly be kind of cruel to not have a paper book available, plus I’ve had enough time to recover from my last layout. I think what I’ll do is put it out as an e-book (just on Amazon to start with), and then do a layout. I won’t have the copy editor go over the layout, so it might be a bit rough, but hopefully it will be OK since the text has been copy edited.