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I’ve gotten enough edits to Murder in Main Street USA to claim that the next public beta would be the Final Edit.  That’s when I start formatting it into a book form (this time it’ll be a standard paperback version, hoping that it’ll be cheaper than the coffee table sized Lost Boy Found) and proofing it for the official release.  I’m shooting for November 18th as the deadline.

As for Blood and Metal, I’ve been taking on the plot deck and am typing away at that book in earnest now.  I’m at 165 cards to go and counting down as I speak.  It’ll probably go through November (So no NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) projects for me) and December and with luck make it to the end of January of 2008 with the Closed Door Draft.  (I think I’ll wait til next year to do a NaNoWriMo book.  With the election in that month, I’ll probably need the distraction.)  As I did before, I’ll update you all on the cards to go, both on my web site and elsewhere.

Also, I’ll still be working on Writer’s Circle challenges to help jump over writer’s blocks in B&M.  My latest challenge was the combat scene challenge which was Eric and Spectre’s first round.  People were getting interested more in the book with each passing submission which might be a big help in getting publicity with my works.  Now, if Gaia Online can release their Battle game, things will be perfect.

I finally got to the second beta release of “Murder in Main Street USA,” my Scarlet PI novel.  I’m already getting the response I needed out of the book, a story that’s one part CSI: Orlando, and one part light-hearted romp.  The scene with Captain Jack Sparrow along must be read to believed.

I won’t say that all that’s needed to do is hunt for those stray spelling and grammar errors; the jot and tittle work as I call them.  There’s still one more chapter to put in here, and then it’s to decide whatever or not to add in a serialized origin story at the end of each main story:  I have a young Dexter-like mad scientist named Joseph who has dreams of being an Imagineer, and he lives in Aria’s castle (I’ll tell you more about it, but that would be telling) and I need a part where he’s introduced better than he currently is.  Fortunately, the Writer’s Circle has given me a perfect way to get the ball rolling on this one.

Once that is out of the way, as well as the other minor details, this book is all but ready to be released to the public.  I’m planning “Murder in Main Street USA,” the first book in my Scarlet PI novel series, to be released on lulu at November 18, 2007.  Watch for it then.