Not quite, but close enough that I’m running Quicktest as I write to debug all the new material I’ve written this year. Just got a clean report last night. 
The finish line is close. Well, having a complete draft, which will need all your feedback before it’s properly done.
Yeah, I don’t know, man. If it takes me this much work to hit half a million?
She played it for the first time back in the spring and liked it. So far, though, I’ve not been able to persuade her to contribute the cover art… not her genre, art-wise. I suggested we just superimpose a generic rogue image over one of her etchings, like this
but for some reason she wasn’t persuaded.
As for the coffee money, she’s well aware of how little it’s going to earn proportionate to the time that’s gone into it… but the advance will help get our family back to the US for Christmas this year, so that’s nice for all of us.