Hey. So I finished the final Stronghold book this weekend. This book seriously kicked my ass. Part of it is entirely my fault. I started it back in May and wrote on it sporadically in May, June, and July. By that, I mean a few thousand words here, a few thousand words there. I went into it expecting this book to be roughly twice the length of previous books in the series. I figured that even with those dinky numbers I’d have it done in no time.
Ha.
The 30K I predicted turned into nearly 70K. Meaning Stronghold is the currently clocking in as my longest book date. Which is awesome! YAY! But I didn’t really factor that length into my overall writing schedule. (which I’m terrible at keeping to, btw. TERRIBLE.)
HOWEVER, I did finish several books in the months I was working on Stronghold. I’m aiming to have a new series start up in November (that’s still tentative, but it’s my plan), of which 2 books are written and a 3rd is almost done. The down side of that is that I wrote them out of order. So, book 1 is completed. Book 2 is almost done. Book 3 is plotted. Book 4 is done, but needs to be reworked to fit in with the timeline on the earlier books. (What? I like to be contrary.)
I had a point to this. I swear. Maybe it was to expect the Stronghold series to close out early in 2016. I need a break from that bad boy before I can tackle editing it.
In the meantime, Operation Merman goes live on Thursday the 1st (you can preorder it at Amazon) and the 3rd book in the Anderson High Wolves series will be coming to you sometime before the end of October.
Now I’m going to fall back and regroup to see what I need to work on next.
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