Time is Speeding Up

I thought I would need to wait a few days after my last edit readthrough of The Flower of Knighthood before I started another one, but I not only went ahead and dived right back into it, I am more than one third of the way through, in about a day and a half. I really want to finish it. It's just over two months until I go to the conference in France, and I really, really want to be done and be able to take something with me. I am still making edits on this readthrough, but can tell that I am very nearly done, because I'm starting to argue with myself that some of my suggested changes don't really make a difference one way or the other, and also because I've looked at some of the prior changes I made and decided I don't agree with them after all, and changed them back. Both of those are signs that I am almost done, because the same things start happening when I am almost through with a magazine article or song.

My tentative plan is this: I want to have the book ready to sell in a small self-published press run and also in a downloadable format before the conference. I will offer a free download of the first ten pages, which is my sample of the book that I show people to give them an idea of its contents, and will charge a small amount for an instant download of the whole book for anyone who likes the sample and wants to read the whole thing without waiting for a hard copy to ship; I will also print up some paperback versions and offer them at a reasonable price for those who want a real book. I still want to approach one commercial publisher that I recently learned about who may be interested just to see what they say, and to see which publishers show up at the conference since they might be very interested in it, but I don't want to wait any longer to get this book out there. The technology now supports instant release of content, and I want to avail myself of that. If I can't get the print run locked down before the conference, I will aim to get the download up so I can give the info to other International Arthurian Society members, since they are a ready-made audience. I want to speed things up, because I also want to get back to Parsifal and get an edit read-through done on it, too. It mentions both Rennes and Mont St. Michel, sites in the area of northern France where the conference is taking place, and I want to be able to talk about that, too.