GHOST IN THE VEILS and other projects underway
Now that SEVENFOLD SWORD ONLINE: LEVELING is out, it’s time to see what I’m working on next.
First up is the next Caina book, GHOST IN THE VEILS. As of this writing I’m currently 21,000 words into it, which puts me on Chapter 5 of 21. Not entirely sure when it will come out, but it will definitely be before April.
After that I will write WIZARD-THIEF, the sequel to HALF-ELVEN THIEF from back in December. I’ve actually made good progress on that, and am 30,000 words into it already.
After WIZARD-THIEF, it will finally be time to write CLOAK OF TITANS! I am about 1,500 words into it.
CLOAK OF TITANS is not going to be the end of the CLOAK MAGE series, but we are going to burn up like 85% of the ongoing subplots in that book. In some cases literally. 🙂 If all goes well that should come out towards the end of spring 2024.
Recording on the audiobook of SHIELD OF STORMS is done, as excellently narrated by Brad Wills, and odds are that will be out in March.
Meanwhile, I am pleased to report that I have obtained a new desktop computer and am currently setting it up. Amusingly, several people I know also got new computers with brilliant internal case lights (I guess they look good on Twitch livestreams or something), but mine’s a somber black Dell XPS that looks like some sort of alien monolith. 🙂
-JM
Good luck with your new computer. I’ve switched to laptops for my computing needs, the lower power draw and portability are handy when you’re going off grid.
I’m used to you working on three series at once, but you’ve put that up a notch. Is this to reduce burnout and possible writer’s block? Another writer I follow (Peter Grant) as an experiment released a trilogy spaced one month apart for each book and noted that he had excellent sell-through, but that it was difficult for him to write those one after another.
The only thing that’s really changed is I’m not doing a Ridmark/Andomhaim book every other month. I want to keep writing them, but I’ve been writing a Ridmark/Andomhaim book every other month pretty much since 2013, so I’d like to change it up a bit and do more of other things. So I won’t get to SHIELD OF DARKNESS until this summer.