SOUL OF SKULLS excerpt & progress update

27 chapters down, 11 to go. I’m at 109,000 words right now.

I started on November 7th, and dang that is a lot of words to do in 27 days. I haven’t decided what new series I’m going to after DEMONSOULED is done in 2013, but I think I’m going to plan the new series so it runs in 60,000 word books. Because these 150,000 word volumes are a marathon, let me tell you.

But! Here’s an excerpt from recent writing:

Hundreds of runedead closed around him, reaching for him with dead, gray hands.

Very well. If subtlety had failed, then it was time to resort to raw force.

Lucan pulled off his gloves and summoned power. Magic flooded him, a river of raw power, drawn from his own strength, the stolen Demonsouled power in his thoughts, and the knowledge and experience he had taken from Randur Maendrag. Any mortal wizard who tried to draw that much magic would die instantly, burned to ashes…but Lucan had left his mortality behind.

He raised his hands, sigils of crimson fire burning on his palms, the bloody light falling over the runedead.

And the undead exploded into flames.

-JM