First draft of Dog Days is complete!

I wrote the last chapter (which wasn't really the last chapter consecutively, just the remaining one that I had yet to write) last Sunday sitting on the floor with my laptop in front of the fireplace. I had a weird giddy feeling the whole next day, where I couldn't concentrate on anything else. But I had to submit my final project for my InDesign class, so I managed to do that. The project was the layout and design of my book. This here is the front and back cover and spine. It is how I imagine the finished thing to look. It's very cool to see how it would look in print. I'm trying to "make the thing real" which I remember reading in a SARK book several years ago. We'll see if it helps me actually get it published.

Christmas vacation will be spent, at least in part, editing, editing, editing.

Ahh, the incredible lightness of completing a book...