Our proofer has just scanned and taken the first pass through all 262,000 words of Barry Hughart’s The Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox. We’ve sent the omnibus, as well as the first draft of Bridge of Birds — the latter available only with the deluxe limited edition — off to our designer to work her magic. Artist Jon Foster has a copy of Bridge from which to create an illustration for the omnibus, so all’s on schedule for our Halloween release of this trio of beloved novels.

Posted on Saturday, May 10th, 2008 at 10:16 am.