End of Winter Update

Winter’s ending, spring’s coming.  Now that the poll’s done, here’s a look at how things are going with the Inheritance of Magic series!

Main news is that Inheritance of Magic #4 is rolling along.  I’ve just finished the first section of 15,000-ish words and sent it out to my beta readers – my books usually run to about 90,000 to 100,000 words and are made up of about six of these sections, so we’re about one-sixth of the way there.  Which might not sound like much, but I usually find that starting the book and completing the early segments is by far the hardest part, so this is actually more than it sounds.

I’m also about halfway through the copy-edits on the third book in the Inheritance of Magic series, A Judgement of Powers.  And if you’re feeling like you’ve heard me saying I’m done with the edits an awful lot of times by now . . . don’t worry, it’s not just you.  My books get a lot of editing rounds before they’re done.  Partly this is due to me having two editors (one UK and one US), partly it’s just the standard process for traditional publishing, and partly it’s because I’m unusually fussy about editing my books and tend to go over them multiple times before I’m satisfied enough to put them out.  I could write a fair bit faster if I wasn’t so picky, but if you saw the difference between my first drafts and finished manuscripts, you’d realise why I do it this way.

Speaking of A Judgment of Powers, the provisional release date is 4th November, 2025.  This isn’t anything I heard from my publishers, it’s just what Amazon is saying, but it’s probably just as reliable.

Content on this blog for the next couple of months will be the long-promised Sigl Recycling series and . . . well, probably just the Sigl Recycling series.  There isn’t very much news to share since I’m going to be writing for the next 5-6 months or so straight.  But I’ll let you know if anything changes!