Finito! Completo! I just turned in the first draft of Great Medieval Projects You Can Build Yourself. All (nearly) 30,000 words of it. Whew! It feels fabulous to be done, but I’m hitting my usual post-completion exhaustion. I see a couple of days that are pretty non-functional in my future.

If you’re wondering what’s next in the whole book production process, the publisher is working on the cover layout already and will begin editing my draft after the first of the year. When they’ve gone through it thoroughly the manuscript will come back to me for revisions. During this process, their graphics people will be working on the images for the book and planning its layout. It’s a complex process!