Hi everyone,
Editing work on Volume 2 is coming along! At this point all the new and reworked content has been finished; it’s now just a matter of grammar, formatting, and polish. As a result, I will go ahead and put down April 7th as the target release date and give you your two week stub warning now. Volume 2, which comprises of chapters 50 - 93.6 (additionally Interlude 109.3 and Isekai Bob Variant Chapters 2 and 3) will *probably* be stubbed on that date, so get your binges/rereads in now if you don’t want to give me money! That’s right! I’m putting NSLICE-00P’s origin story behind a paywall! Muahahahahaha!
Ahem.
As before, April 7th is the earliest possible KU release date, but not guaranteed (like last time, where it took a full week and a half to get through Amazon’s approval system). In particular, editing on Volume 2 has gone much slower than Volume 1, so my estimate might be off if the same effect applies to the polish stage. I will not remove the chapters until the new version is complete and available, but be aware that I reserve the right to do so at any time after April 7th, and without additional warning, so do not trust it after then.
For those of you who don’t want to give money to Amazon: I have discovered that the exclusivity clause does not apply to the hard copy, so that may be a potential route. However, I have also made the horrible mistake of doing some of the edits and formatting of volume 1 in Kindle Create which does NOT play nice with any other editor or format, which means submitting to any other store will require a complete reformatting. I might eventually do this, but not until after Volume 2 releases at minimum. I am NOT making that mistake in further volumes, so hopefully it will be somewhat simpler after Volume 1. Note that the page count is pretty high when converted to paperback, so the price would be noticeably higher on that version. Sorry!
