I’m looking for beta participants for my PC client!  See http://blog.sc.tri-bit.com/archives/151. 

So, the cover art prototype is in, for the sudoku book series I’m going to have up and on Cafe Press and Lulu, and maybe even in stores, Real Soon Now ™.

Sometimes it’s hard to remember what life was like before I had a reliable artist. Luckily, at least for a while, I don’t have to remember what that was like. For now, it’s enough for me to know that my cover art is most of the way ready, and that that means the books themselves aren’t far behind. I’ve actually had the puzzles themselves ready for several weeks now, but things were badly timed; at any rate, now is better than never, one supposes.

The cover art prototypes for the new book series can be found here. Commentary is welcomed. The spine and tail material are next, then the product page inserts, and finally we should be good to go.

My sudoku store is already up and running, if you’d like to buy merchandise. The books should be up probably within a week, though no promises. Each book should be 300 puzzles, and I’m leaning towards a price neighborhood of about eight bucks a pop. Eight books’ worth of puzzles are already made – four each Sudoku and Sudoku-X, one for easy, medium, difficult and expert level. Next will be some mixed difficulty books, then compilation books with 1500 puzzles. After that, it’ll be time to start making Killer and Gattai-5 (Samurai Sudoku) puzzles.

And, once that’s over with, it’ll be time to make my giant sudoku poster puzzles. Wait’ll you see them – the software support is already done.