Well, put your women on a leash, lock your kids up in their rooms, it's party time! Last evening I put the finishing touches on the manuscript of "The Burning Ages: Wolf Hunt". That is, after I tried in vain to format the damn thing for Smashwords and for Amazon's Kindle. Anyway, the actual writing part is done, and I'm looking at the semi-finished product of ~174,800 words with a sense of relief and great pride. 
Now, what remains to do?
[image error] I've sent the good people at Everything Indie a sample for editing, and depending on how that works out I'll also use their services to format "Wolf Hunt" for Smashwords and Kindle. I've also cobbled together something for CreateSpace so that I can get my novel published in print, though what I've sent them so far is more a proof of concept for me than anything else. I also can't make any comments on the cost of the print version until I've checked out the results of what I sent them. Right now, at a format of 6"x9", "Wolf Hunt" is just about 390 pages at a font size of 10.5. You can see the final cover on the right.
Either way, I'm a big step closer to actually getting my novel published, and as such have begun with some preliminary work on other projects, including the sequel. Yes, a sequel. While "Wolf Hunt" works well enough on its own, I've placed more than enough hooks in it to setup a longer story (which was the idea all along). This preliminary work mostly includes storyboarding and reading background material when I'm not reading or watching things I'd like to review on this blog as it is (upcoming titles include Kaiserfront 1: Die Schwarze Macht by Heinrich von Stahl (yeah, right^^) and Hitler's War by Harry Turtledove). We'll see how soon I get to them. I guess it all depends on how well the work on "TBA: Clash of Eagles" and my side-project, the character-driven, supernatural meets WW2-themed "Witch Fire" comes along.