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\nIf you’ve been wondering what’s going on with Slaves of the Switchboard of Doom<\/em>, well… so was I, for awhile. I thought I had reasonable expectations for how speedily the publishing industry moves. In this I was mistaken. <\/p>\n But March and April have seen a sudden burst of activity, a new release date, and the slow transition from my recent no expectations<\/em> to my current cautious reserve<\/em>.\n<\/p>\n The book’s new publication date – which I still consider a pleasant daydream – is March of 2017.<\/p>\n That date is looking more likely these days because the sales department has taken an interest. At some point their interest will turn into intent, penetrating looks directed at any part of the book that isn’t moving toward the release date, and once those intent, penetrating looks start darting around I think we can be pretty confident about the date. Nobody <\/em>wants to get looks like those.<\/p>\n I’ve finished a couple of rough layouts for the book jacket and I expect I might start getting some looks of my own once everybody’s had a chance to see them. The dust jacket designs were a genuine blast to work on: they’re wraparound designs, so each one is a big picture that’s made up of five smaller rectangles that also need to work on their own. I really enjoyed working on them.\n<\/p>\n No, you can’t see them.<\/p>\n But I am looking at them while I’m typing – which is actually pretty difficult – and I can tell you that we’re probably going to have a pretty nice cover.<\/p>\n