Thanks to all those who took part in the Summer Splash Blog Hop, and congratulations to Debbie for coming closest on the “guess the number of jellybeans” style question. 
Q: The final version the newly released book Devil Town, Volume IV of the Norothian Cycle has a word count of 109,472. The question is, what was the word count of the first draft?
A: 108,505
The book got just a little longer from first to final draft, which is odd as some scenes were cut and others added, and at least one was reworked entirely, but there you go.
Here are the final guesses, and where the actual answer falls on the scale. Again, thanks to everybody for playing, and Debbie, I will be in touch. 
Ed McNally
21 kittyb78
100,000 Jolea M. Harrison
(((ANSWER: 108,505)))
110,000 Debbie
112,288 Juana Esparza
117,510 Amber Dane
118,768 Jason Sampson
124,432 John Bohrman
124,589 Crystal
124,765 mama4science
125,893 Jim Devitt
129,362 karincox
137,500 mabledsoe
137,837 Lauren M.
145,000 Arthur Caudill
145,894 Lori M
150,000 Julene Wallace Jefferson
152,498 Trianna
165,573 Sara M
169,204 Emma Petfield
174,922 Susan Ricci & Erma
180,000 Crystal Young
195,647 Trianna Hyde
200,500 Zanza
213,154 jennifer grunenberg
