Paperback jacket

It's done!!  The cover is ready and accepted by the publishing house.  I ordered a proof to do a final inspection-should be here Friday.  If everything looks good, I'll give the final go ahead for printing.

Cover for Kindle

The cover for the Kindle copy of 'Brothers' is now the way I want it.  One cover down and one to go. I hope to have the glitches ironed out on the paperback cover within to weeks.

Published...not perfectly.

I just added Brothers (Tale of the River Rats) to Amazon.  The cover needs to be tweaked, but will have to wait 2-3 weeks for that to happen.  I expect to have the paperback version ready to publish within a couple of weeks.  There have been some technical difficulties with the specifications for the front and back covers.
The Kindle copy is downloadable, but the cover is not exactly what I want, so be warned!

Waiting on book jacket design

Editing is nearly done, just waiting on the book jacket design.

Another update

Things are going well.  The editor has the book in her hot little hands and the young gal is working hard on the book jacket.  Hopefully, ready to go sometime in the next three weeks, but we'll see.  In the meantime, I finished a story I call "The Baltimore Princess" and submitted it to the writers group I belong to and a couple of magazine contests.  I also began working on another short story that I started quite a while ago called "The Wallflower Reunion".  I'm about half done with that, so I haven't been twiddling my thumbs.

new short story

I started work today on a short story that features a young, expectant mother who lives in the inner city of Baltimore.  You might say, What the hell does this guy know about young, expectant mothers who live in the inner city?  Good question!  Not much would be my answer, but I don't think it will affect the story line very much.  I'm attacking it from a different angle and when I'm finished, which shouldn't take me more than a few days...I think, I'm going to try and sell it to a magazine.  We'll see, I guess.
My only other hint about story line is that it also involves the Duchess of Cambridge and it takes place this year.
If I can't sell it, I'll post it online.

update on "Brothers"

I'm continuing to rewrite parts of the book, hopefully making them better.  I shouldn't be so lazy about this, but I really haven't contacted any other publishers (we've been pretty busy this month with planning for my mother's 90th birthday bash, topped off by her sky jumping out of an airplane in Waseca.  It went great, and she loved it.  And I haven't heard anything from the one publisher who gave me some encouraging words, so...I think I'll just pursue the self-publishing mode for now and maybe shop that and "The Book Club Murders" to some other publishers in a couple of months.
In other news, the great, young lady working on the book jacket says she can make the ideas I gave her work on the cover, so I'm pretty excited about that.
If all goes well, the book should be finished editing and the jacket cover ready by the end of June, a couple of months later than I had thought, but, things get in the way sometimes.