First-pass: 400 pages (complete).

Second-pass: ~160 pages.

Formatting: 75 pages.

Cover art: aaaaaaaaaaa!

(Which is to say, man, I wish I hadn’t planned the release of this book during the slowest time of this business year, in which I can’t squeeze stock photography out of the budget, never mind commissioning custom art of the Drake-class frigate.

Whose deck layout I am still sketching out this morning, because… well, maybe someday.)