Slight change of plans. A good change. I had dinner with my editor a couple weeks ago, mainly to discuss the picture books. He was however, very interested to hear how this novel was going, and asked when I'd be willing to show him something. So I'm doing some rough re-writing, and if he likes what he sees, I'll hopefully have a final commitment to publish the book.
That also means I'll be doing some posting on the re-writing process.