OK, a progress report on the authoring...

First, I submitted my chapter by chapter schedule for the book. Ten chapters (I wanted 7, but the Overview, Interop, and Base Services pushed me over the limit).

• Chapter 1: Due 12/15 (yes, this is the last chapter i'll write)
• Chapter 2: 5/27
• Chapter 3: 6/13
• Chapter 4: 10/4
• Chapter 5: 10/13
• Chapter 6: 10/25
• Chapter 7: 11/1
• Chapter 8: 11/7
• Chapter 9: 11/17
• Chapter 10: 12/2

My target for the book is ~350 pages. I'm taking some advice to heart - make the book as short as possible, but no shorter (with appologies to Albert).

I have approximately 25 pages written to date. My goal is to try and do about 20 pages a week. I'll have ~6 weeks off for a long vacation this summer, and ~4 weeks off for the PDC. The goal is to sim-ship the book with the release of Avalon.

I've created a new category on the blog "Programming Avalon" for future posts about the book.