GHOST IN THE WINDS now underway!
I am pleased to report that I have started the rough draft of GHOST IN THE WINDS, the ninth and final* book of the GHOST EXILE series, and the eighteenth overall GHOSTS book.
I’ve been really looking forward to writing it. I plotted out GHOST IN THE WINDS three and a half years ago when I first laid out the outline for the GHOST EXILE series, so I’m excited to reach the conclusion of the saga at last. After all, if you’ve spent the last three years writing a mystery and keeping secrets, it is enjoyable to reveal all the secrets at last.
And there’s nothing quite as fun as writing the final book in a series. How many other people have gotten to write a nine book series all the way to the end, with people actively looking forward to it? Some, but not many.
So thank you all for coming along to the end of GHOST EXILE!
I have to admit I’m not sure when it will be done. I’m 9.000 words into it, and outline has 34 chapters, and the last thing I wrote with 34 chapters was SOUL OF SWORDS, and that book was like 7300 Kindle locations and about 140,000 words long. I suspect GHOST IN THE WINDS will be somewhere around that length. So it will probably be a long book, and that makes it hard to predict how long it will be.
But it will be out before the end of 2016. Be sure to watch this page for updates!
-JM
*There will be another GHOSTS series after GHOST EXILE.
JM wrote: “I have started the rough draft of GHOST IN THE WINDS…”
Yay!
JM wrote: “…the end of 2016…”
Wait. What? I sure hope so.
Because you write 3,000 words a day, right? Therefore, even if it’s 150,000 words long that’s only 50 days which puts us sometime in September even with lots of days off, right? Right?!?
I sure hope so too. 🙂 Real Life has been eventful lately so I suspect I’m going to miss a bunch of days in the coming weeks.
I just really hope you don’t kill Kylon off like you did Corvalis. That might actually make me not read the next series to be honest.
Any comments on the topic would be spoilers. 🙂
That said, it’s best for a writer not to repeat himself.
Thank goodness! More China. Such a vivid character. I can’t wait to read the next book in the exile series & am definitely interested in reading what you have planned for the next series.
Thanks for the kind words! I’m glad you enjoyed the books. I got to Chapter 10 of GHOST IN THE WINDS today, so progress is being made!
Are you ok?
Right as rain, never fear. 🙂
Im so exited to hear that. Ghost series are my all time favorite series(^_^).will this be the last book with Caina?
Thanks! There will be a series after EXILE, but all details would be spoiler-tastic.
can’t wait to see the conclusion of ghost exile 🙂 btw, will there be a ghost series beyond exile?
Thanks! There will be a series after EXILE, but all details would be spoiler-tastic. 🙂