Benedict Jacka

First draft of Book #4 is done!  I’m still busy editing it, but I should be sending it off to my publishers next week.

Next week will also be my Reddit AMA, on Thursday 13th.  I’ll start at noon or so GMT, as usual.  For those of you who are new to this, here are the links for the last couple of AMAs I did for the Inheritance of Magic series:

AMA for An Inheritance of Magic (2023)
AMA for An Instruction in Shadow (2024)

AMA stands for “Ask Me Anything”, and it’s just a question-and-answer session.  I usually time these for about 1-2 weeks after a book’s release, the idea being that the more enthusiastic readers will have time to read the book so that they can ask me questions on it.

I’ll put up a post once the AMA goes lives, and then answer questions for 24 hours or so.  Hope to see some of you then!

A Judgement of Powers, the third book in the Inheritance of Magic series, releases today!

Usually I gather a few reviews and stuff for these release days, but for the past couple of weeks I’ve been working flat out on Inheritance of Magic #4.  It’s now basically finished and I’ve just got to give it a quick edit before sending it off.  I’m pretty exhausted though and don’t have the energy to write much, so I’ll just say that I hope you enjoy book #3.  It’s been a long time!

My Reddit AMA will be next week, on Thursday 13th.  For now, here are the purchase links for A Judgement of Powers:

Amazon UK
Amazon US

Hope to talk to you all on the 13th!

Well, it’s been a long time, but we’re almost there!  A Judgement of Powers, the third book in the Inheritance of Magic series, releases this coming week, on Tuesday 4th November!

As usual, the book will release in paper, ebook, and audio formats.  All should be available at about the same time, though I don’t know for sure what the details are on the audio edition.  The following week, I’ll be doing my usual Reddit AMA, this one on 13th November.

Book #4 is also very very close to completion;  I’m hoping to have it done by next week.  Fingers crossed!

Today’s news is that with its release now only a couple of weeks away, Goodreads is running a giveaway of A Judgement of Powers.  There are 50 e-copies available and the giveaway is open between the 24th of October and the 2nd of November.  (It’s U.S. only, though, so sorry to my European readers!)

In other news, I’ve finished the signings for the Broken Binding printing of the UK edition of A Judgement of Powers, and I’ll be sending the signed pages off this coming week.  Not sure exactly when the signed hardbacks will go on sale, but I’ll let you know once I find out!

Book #3 of the Inheritance of Magic series, A Judgement of Powers, is nearly here!

Just as a reminder, the book will be released on the 4th of November.  Paper, audio and ebook versions should all be released at the same time (though the UK version will be getting its hardback release first – the paperback version will be coming later).  Then once that’s done, I’ll be doing a Reddit AMA on the 13th of November.  Hopefully that’ll be long enough for those who want to have read the book before the AMA to have finished it!

Chapter 2 of the third book in the Inheritance of Magic series, A Judgement of Powers, is now online!  You can read it here.

Title pages for A Judgement of Powers have arrived. Just need to number and sign all 500 of them.   

Takes a while to do but it at least it’s not very demanding creatively!  As usual, they’ll be sold online via the Broken Binding.

Working on the ending sequence of Book #4 at the moment – a couple of chapters done, a couple to go.  We’ll see how quickly I manage to finish it up.

Next week I’ll be posting the second (and last) extract from A Judgement of Powers, chapter #2.  To read the rest you’ll have to wait until it releases next month!

Into the final section of Book #4.  About one and a half chapters to go, and we’ll be done.

Sorry that I haven’t been putting out all that much content on the blog for the past couple of months – I’ve got a bunch of worldbuilding articles planned but Book #4 is proving unusually difficult and pretty much all of my energy and focus is going into finishing it.  Hopefully it’ll be done within a month or so, at which point I’ll have a bit more free time and will be able to do stuff like write a few articles in advance!

Although it hasn’t been finalised as yet, my publishers got in touch with me this week to tell me that the Broken Binding should be doing a signed hardback edition of A Judgement of Powers, as they did with Inheritance of Magic #1 and #2.  They should go on sale around the beginning of November.  I’ll let you know as/when that’s confirmed!

I’m into the final section of Inheritance of Magic #4.  Should be just a couple more chapters to go.  It’s looking like I won’t make the end-of-September deadline that I’d been aiming for, but it’ll definitely be done before the release of A Judgement of Powers.

Here’s Chapter 1 of Book #3 in the Inheritance of Magic series, A Judgement of Powers!

Chapter 2 will release four weeks from now, on October 10th.