Inheritance of Magic #5 is halfway done! I usually divide my books up into six sections, each of around 15,000 words or a little more. As of this week, the third section of Book #5 is now finished, and the first draft of the manuscript is sitting at 47,000 words. My books usually run to around 90-100k words in total, so if the pattern holds, we should be about 50% of the way through.
I’m very happy about this, since my last couple of books took much longer to finish than I’d hoped, to the point that I was starting to feel that I wouldn’t be able to keep to my one-a-year schedule any more. But in this case, I’ve finished 50% of book #5 in only three and a half months, which gives me good reason to hope that I’ll be able to keep to the old schedule after all!
In other news, I’ve finally heard back from my publishers, and they’ve promised to get the edits of book #4 to me by today. We’ll see whether that actually happens or not, but at least things are moving. In the meantime, I’ve started working on a couple more Beginner’s Guide to Drucraft worldbuilding articles.
Thanks for the update and good to hear that Book #5 is going so well, a little anxious that Book #4 Edits are finally going to be with you and just hope that the reason for delay wasn’t anything about the book itself!
I’m very much enjoying the series and looking forward with eager anticipation for Book #4 in November (Chapter #1 in September too?) and perhaps a bit more information on Hobbs and Joanna’s contribution in Stephen’s life?
I’m very happy for you!
I’m glad that things are going well with book #5 and (hopefully!) the edits for book #4 won’t be too much trouble.
This is all good news!
It is great to hear everything is working out smoothly.Lets hope the edits you need to do just superficial. Like you said your half way through book 5 lets get cracking on the rest of the book(1st draft). Keep up the fantastic work