Due to my health issues and some major changes from the Advanced Reader to the SOL version, I will not be able to meet the end of August launch date. It looks like it will be sometime in November.
We take reader feedback seriously and one of the major issues they had was they felt the story ended too soon. They voiced a desire that it should have ended at either the end of the semester or New Year's, not the last football game. To solve that, we've pulled the first nine chapters from Better Man 4 and will be adding three to five chapters beyond that.
The issue is that with my hospital stays and recovery, I haven't been writing. The good news is the worst is behind me... not wanting to jinx it... so I think I can get the remaining chapters to my editors.
We follow a rigorous process to fix my books. It takes time for everyone to get a chance to read the chapters and make their corrections. Then I become the bottle kneck as I read everything one last time. The good news is that I'm old, so when I get it back it's like reading it for the first time. With all that in mind, I asked my lead editor to find out when it was realistic to implement the changes so we could get the book ready for SOL. That's where the November date was proposed.
Before I get swamped with messages, we will do everything we can to get done sooner.
Thanks for your patients.
G Younger