Real Life Writes The Plot!

Reader Dennis asks to write:

“Whatever happened to Cloak of Blades, Nadia next adventure supposed to be available in 2020 according to the end of Cloak of Ashes.”

Ah. Well. The pandemic and various knock-off effects changed my publishing plans quite a bit in 2020.

But! We’re almost halfway through 2021, and if all goes well, after DRAGONTIARNA: WARDEN comes out I will start writing CLOAK OF BLADES.

Real Life decisions sort of drove the plot here. I originally planned to write DRAGONTIARNA: WARDEN and then GHOST IN THE SUN immediately afterward. But part of my long-term strategy for audiobooks is to start putting out more recent books (like CLOAK MAGE) in audiobook form, rather than old one. So way back at the start of 2021 I confidently agreed to have CLOAK OF BLADES recorded in August, certain I would have both DRAGONTIARNA and GHOST NIGHT completed with ample time to allow me to finish CLOAK OF BLADES by the end of July.

But DRAGONTIARNA: STORMS took waaaay longer to write than I thought, and I was sick for a while in March, so I got behind. Also, DRAGONTIARNA: WARDEN is going to be on the longer side as well. The end effect of all this is that after I finish DRAGONTIARNA: WARDEN, my next book will be CLOAK OF BLADES, and it’s coming out before August 1st. 🙂

Meanwhile, I am 85,000 words into DRAGONTIARNA: WARDEN, which puts me on Chapter 20 of 30. Almost 2/3 of the way there!

-JM