7-40 Challenge | Round 4, Day 22
The Light Bearer went up on KDP today.
That’s two novels published in 2026. The first one took five months from manuscript to launch. This one took longer than I wanted — I missed my own deadline, pushed through more revisions than I planned for, and learned that editorial work doesn’t care about your timeline. It takes what it takes.
But it’s away. The story is out of my hands and into the world’s.
I wrote about Parkinson’s Law four days ago and made a public commitment to ship this book by Saturday. I missed it by a day. Not because the work wasn’t done — because I wasn’t honest about how much work was left. The two-hour edit I promised myself turned into weeks of revision that made the book significantly better than what I would have shipped if I’d rushed it.
Some deadlines deserve to be missed if the work gets better for it. This was one of them.
David Willis 