SEVENFOLD SWORD: NECROMANCER rough draft finished!
I am pleased to report that the rough draft of SEVENFOLD SWORD: NECROMANCER is finished!
104,500 words in 20 days. That’s pretty fast, even for me. I didn’t have any 10,000 word days, but I did have two 8k days, and one 7k. That’s like a quarter of the book right there.
Next up, SHIELD KNIGHT: CALLIANDE’S TALE, which is a bonus novella I will give away to my newsletter subscribers when SEVENFOLD SWORD: NECROMANCER comes out in January. I’m going to try something slightly different for this novella- it will start in third person POV of as Calliande is talking to Kalussa Pendragon, and then will shift to first person POV as Calliande tells Kalussa about something that happened during the first Frostborn war, hundreds of years before the FROSTBORN series even started.
In over 2 million words of FROSTBORN/SEVENFOLD SWORD, I’ve never written about Calliande’s early days, so this is exciting.
Of course, the key to understanding Calliande’s character is simple. She is compassionate, kindly, forgiving, will endure excruciating agony to heal someone, and this one time when a muridach mercenary threatened to enslave her sons, she blasted a crater through the mercenary’s chest before he got his next sentence all the way out. That’s Calliande. 🙂
Anyway, once that novella is done, I’ll start editing NECROMANCER, probably a few days after Christmas.
-JM