Here the thing about guessing when it will be released. Jim pattern doesn’t fit most other authors. If his Beta readers have kept Jim real clued in to possible errors or inconsistencies, he is very good at pre-editing his own work. So for most other authors I would say we have a full year to wait from when he sends it in to the publisher. Jim’s books can; sometimes, be out in several months less time than that.
Let’s say in two to three weeks Jim finishes up the touch ups he will do before sending it in, my guess is we will get Twelve Months around Christmas, maybe even in time for Black Friday or Cyber Monday sales. Though nothing is guaranteed.
However, a long time ago; make that a long-long time ago, for one of the novels between Small Favor and Changes, Jim finished; sent it in, sometime in mid-December and that book hit the shelves around the first week of April, just under four months later. I don’t know how the publisher achieved such a fast turn around to get the book out so fast. Maybe it’s was during the Great Recession and Jim’s publisher had less material to work on, I don’t know. What I do know is I wouldn’t count on that kind of fast turn around today.
