Well, the edits for Book #4 in the Inheritance of Magic series are finally in! I read through them on Wednesday and started work on them on Thursday.
The good news is that none of the suggested changes are all that major, and most don’t seem as though they’ll take a gigantic amount of time or effort. That said, the delays have impacted things a bit. There are some suggested changes (mostly along the lines of “can you rewrite this scene?”) which I might have been willing to do back around December in the immediate aftermath of the book, but which I don’t really want to do now. The longer the gap between first draft and edits, the more a story tends to ‘set’ in your mind, and the more work it takes to make significant changes. So I’m probably going to make fewer editorial changes than I would have done otherwise.
Even so, I doubt getting through these edits will be fast – in all likelihood it’ll keep me busy for the next few weeks – which means that Book #5 is going to have to be set aside for a little while. Luckily, since I just reached the halfway mark, I’m at a natural break point, so this is a fairly convenient place to take a pause. So my current plan is to do the edits, then get back to Book #5. Hopefully I should be able to get started on the second half of that by early next month/middle of next month, with the aim of finishing Book #5 by around end of summer.
In the meantime, on this blog, I’ll be starting a new mini-series of worldbuilding articles on Sigl Fashion, covering the ways drucrafters in this setting wear, bear, or carry sigls. This’ll be three parts long, and will run from the beginning to the end of May. Hope you find it interesting!