I’ve gotten this question a few times so I’ll break my habit of not ever updating and post it here:

So the demise of Rudius left me on my own.  My OCD would have it no other way. This means White Dwarf will get published, with one caveat… I’ll have to do it myself.  I have some money saved up for just such a purpose.  I will be using an on-demand publishing service called Create Space.

I don’t really expect to recoup the money I sink into publishing it (probably about 4k) and the book will be priced cheap.  I don’t have the time or inclination to do any sort of marketing other than maybe buying ads on facebook (I tried just advertising this site on it for two days and was quite shocked by the amount of traffic I received… just for a stupid blog!).

Anyway.  I’m shooting for Spring 2010. If I just submitted what I have now, I could probably have it out by the end of the month, but I’m doing a significant cleanup.  If you divide the 42 chapters into 3 equal parts, nearly half the story is in part 1.  I’m going to significantly fill out the last two parts.  Right now, it’s about 83000 words.  I’m guessing it will end up being between 100000 and 120000.

I had already completed significant work on the first 14 chapters in the past month… all of which I lost a week ago due to a hard drive issue.  The only thing I managed to salvage was the rewritten first chapter which I’d emailed to someone.

I’ve re-completed that work (it was still fresh enough in my head) and will continue revising everything until I’m satisfied (or at least someone I trust tells me I should be satisfied)…

I’ll leave the original story as-is on the site and the new stuff will only be available in print.