Nearly Half Through Book Two

*The following contains spoilers for Iris.*

With so much news on Iris lately, it is easy to forget that a whole new book is still on the way. The Color of Water and Sky continues with an all new chapter, bringing the survivors of the AF escape pod to the surface for the first time in generations.

As previously reported on this blog, the initial title for book 2 was going to be The New World. But as time went on, I began to rethink this idea. Seeing as the first book was titled Iris, it seemed pretty odd that the second book would abandon the single word title format for a three word title. With that in mind, the tentative title for book 2 is now Kholvaria.

What is Kholvaria? What does this word mean? What language is this word?

I won’t give you those answers just yet, and for good reason. These are questions I expect people to have when they first see this title. I hope that potential readers will be curious enough to discover the answers for themselves.

Progress on Kholvaria goes well. Unlike Iris, which came in at a whopping 24 chapters + a prologue, Kholvaria is looking to come in at 22 chapters + a prologue. This may not seem like much, but consider that two chapters make up nearly 10% of Iris’s length. When your book is hundreds of pages long, 10% adds up.

Kholvaria will be considerably shorter than its predecessor and the story will progress much faster. This is going to be a very different type of story and very different type of book. I hope to prove this from the very start. Even the prologue will feel like a new narrative altogether.

I finished Chapter 10 yesterday. With 22 chapters planned chapters + a prologue, that means I’m just shy of halfway through.  Pretty soon I’ll need to get things rolling on cover designs and editing. I am easily on track for a 2017 release.

I may even put up a chapters sample very soon.

In the meantime, keep checking up on the blog and on the official Facebook page. People are “liking” it left and right!