DRAGONSKULL: SWORD OF THE SQUIRE progress update

I needed to travel a bunch the past week, so progress on DRAGONSKULL: SWORD OF THE SQUIRE has been slow.

But! I had a 10,000 word day this week, and I’m now on Chapter 12 of 20. Over halfway there! The book is still on track to be out sometime in October.

Let’s close out the week with another excerpt:

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“Humans are not welcome here. What is your purpose? Speak quickly!”

When Gareth had been a child, his father had ordered him to learn the orcish tongue. Gareth had absolutely hated the lessons, preferring instead to spend his time at swordplay and horsemanship and the other skills of the knight. Latin was the common tongue of the realm of Andomhaim, and so why should Gareth learn any other language? His father had responded that orcish and its dialects was the common language of practically every other nation and tribe outside the lands ruled by the heirs of Arthur Pendragon, and Gareth would be well-served by learning it.

At the time, Gareth had been frustrated and annoyed.

Suddenly he was very grateful that his father had insisted.

-JM