Updates

All things considered, it’s been a fairly lazy week . 

I’ve finished the first draft of The Artful Apprentice and completed the first set of edits.  The text is on its way to the second editor, while the cover artist is finishing the cover.  I’ll post it when the design is finalised and all the ducks are in a row.  I don’t have a publication date yet, but I’m hoping to have a release midway through April.

You’ll be pleased to hear, I hope, that I’ve sketched out plots for Oathkeeper (SIM 20)¸The Lion and the Unicorn (Ark 15) and Knife Edge (The Empire’s Corps.)  There may be some changes along the way, but I think the three books exist in outline.  The mid-sized story in The Dogs of God serves as a semi-prequel to The Lion and the Unicorn. 

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I’ve also done a short story for Chris Kennedy’s latest collection.  I’ll say more about that when the collection is released.

The Fantastic Schools request for submissions managed to bring in enough stories to fill two collections.  We’re planning to publish the first one in May, including the second Schooled in Magic novella, and bring out the second one later in the year.  I’m planning to do another story for that collection, probably Barb’s Tale or another SIM-based story.  But it may also be a Royal Sorceress spin-off instead.  We’ll see.

Side note – I plan at least three more spin-off novellas; Cat’s Tale (what happens after he leaves in Cursed), The Musketman’s Tale (a volunteer in the wars) and Frieda’s Tale (in which she goes home and discovers she can’t go home again.)

Health wise, I’m still coughing.  I had terrible pains three weeks ago and the doctor suspected gallstones, but I won’t be scanned for another week.  I had the same pains last Sunday, so I’m a little more panicked now.  And I just feel tired and drained at the moment.