This afternoon I finished the re-write of The Cultivation of the Earth Alliance and changed its status from Rough Draft to First Draft. In the next couple weeks I will go through the book from start to finish and look for the little things I missed the last time through. Then I will unclip it’s leash and let it run wild in the yards of my Beta readers for awhile. Hopefully they will groom it, feed it, talk to it, train it not to bite, and maybe even eventually learn to like it, and when it comes back home it will be better and more civilized. House trained would be too much to ask. After all it’s an outside book not quite domesticated. (All of the dog references are for the benefit of my friend and fellow author Admiral Williams.)