quick update

I need to get to bed, but before I do, I want to leave a quick update on the status of Book 20 editing.

I've started the second round of edits, but already in the first round had added 3,000 words. I'll be more into the editing mode this round. I expect more detailed edits of rearranging things and refining them in big ways. Right now, the story is around 46,000 words.

After this next round, I expect two more. Hopefully not a fifth. Book 19's editing about soured me on editing. That was six or seven rounds and I couldn't have done any more, but it was for the best.

Book 20 shouldn't need that much, but the first round was great. I enjoyed getting back to review pieces of the lives of Zaer and Shen after so much time away.

The goal is to finish by the end of August. Barring any interruptions like July pulled, that is very likely.

And work on the new non-writing project has begun. It'll take a month or two to be ready, but that's not as important as the writing.

In the meantime, the description for Book 20 is now posted:

When a Starfire shard calls out to Nya in desperation, she immediately transports the Iludrin to a world where they discover game hunters.

Afraid that the hunters are there for the Keepers, Nya and L'Ni, with an escort of Altorin, are taken to the surface by Zaer and Shen on the Cartegos. There, they find one of the small hunter vessels, but no one is present. While the hunters are away, Shen has an idea to disable it. However, when one of the local creatures attacks, the ship, with Shen on it, crashes over a cliff into the sea and sinks beneath the surface.

The hunters aren't alone, however. Zaer and the others are forced to escape the world with the shard, but what arrives reveals that the creatures of that world were not the only ones being hunted.

Thanks for reading!

Book 20 is coming soon!