Great News !
wishing you the best for the publication!
I wonder how far the number 65 is important to the plot....
jim
Wow, Jim! You have just made me realize something that has shocked me!
You see, the book has lots of things with numbers. Some are in plain sight, some not.
For example, the seven is an important number, as it is clear on the title. The chapters are named after the seven colors of the (Newton) rainbow. The numbers of words of the novel is 77,777, exactly! (I couldn't resist adding two words when I realized that the final version had 77,775).
Well, any 5x5 magic square will have 65 as its sum (if it has all consecutive numbers between 1 and 25). So that number was not planned and it is not part of the plot. BUT!
A very important thing in the plot is the famous engraving from Albrecht Dürer,
Melencolia I (1514). It has both a rainbow and a 4x4 magic square. That square has lots of interesting properties. And like any normal 4x4 magic square its sum is 34. People have noted that 34 inverted is 43, the age he had when he made it. To me that was just pure chance. But I just realized that the same is true for my square
Cool, but a weird coincidence!
By the way, I have decided to make it available as a softcover book from Amazon print on demand service. It may take a couple of months to be available. I think the price will be a little below $15. The ebook version (Kindle Edition) has just been listed on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06VVSLJZ4/The Nook (Barnes & Noble) edition is available here:
www.bn.com/w/1125801186