What next?
Now that HALF-ORC PALADIN is out, what am I working on next?
-The next book will be SHIELD OF CONQUEST, and I am currently 12,000 words into it, which puts me on Chapter 3 of 22. If all goes well I am hoping that will be out in September.
-I am also 31,000 words into GHOST IN THE TOMBS, and I am very much hoping that will be out in October.
-I am 2,000 words into CLOAK OF ILLUSION, and if all goes well that will be out sometime in November.
Of course, that’s a pretty tight schedule. If anything slips everything will move back a month, of course, and that will pretty much take us to the end of 2024.
But that’s what I’m working on for the next few months.
-JM
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That is an amazing schedule, How do you manage to work on three books at the same time. I think I would start to get plot lines mixed up
I usually write a couple hundred words of the next two books in the morning before I go to the gym. If I do that consistently enough and long enough, it builds up quite a bit by the time I am ready to start the book in earnest.
An exciting schedule! But it makes me wonder. Have you, as a very prolific writer, ever faced imposter’s syndrome or self-doubt? Do you still do? And what helps you overcome those doubts? I think self-doubt is something most writers go through.
I used to get nervous when I would publish, but that was a long time ago. Nowadays it’s more like “what I have written, I have written.”