Hi all, I’m back with power and internet to bring you the good news: Editing is done! We handed the finished manuscript to Spider00x, our layout artist, just over a week ago, and it’s a beast.

At about 82,000 words (240 Google docs pages), I’m guessing Devil’s Due will probably end up at around 120–128 A4-sized pages. Unless I’m missing some other big releases (let me know if I am), I think that might place it as the third-largest Mothership product working its way toward release so far, behind Wages of Sin and, presumably, the totality of Outer Rim Uprising. Based on word count, Devil’s Due is a little bigger than Hull Breach Vol. 1, and it will likely be larger than the upcoming Dying Hard on Hardlight Station: NS-1365 Anthology Edition!

As the layout work is underway, we’re still busy pulling in the last art pieces from our contributors and doing what we can to plug any minor art gaps or oversights that made themselves known during editing. Then, after all that, will come the digital proofs and proofreading, including a lot of cross-references to properly verify. As a teaser of what will be included, here are some lists pulled from three of our indexes (Roll Tables, Vehicles, and Organizations). Did I mention the book has five indexes??

I appreciate the support during what I’ll call my weather-related setback, and we’re happy to keep this production train chugging along. We’re not certain how long the layout process will take, as we’ll be reviewing sample spreads, giving feedback, and signing off on design choices throughout, but we’ll be sure to keep you all updated as we go!