Status: Update, July 2021

Been a while since I last posted, but there is a reason for that, and it's called writing. Yep, I've actually been writing. No major concussion-migraine episodes to dodge, and a welcome break from the homeschooling for all involved, so I have been getting on with Thalassa: Fire & Flood, the third and final part of the Tethys Trilogy. I've seen it said elsewhere that readers, prospective or otherwise, are not interested in the trials and travails of the writers, so I'll keep the technical stuff to a minimum ("see how I bent the demons of the Foreshadowing* to my will in that paragraph!"; "gasp at my miraculous escape from a continuity error on page 321!").

Anyway. The good news: if I was writing a 320 page book like the first two instalments, I'd be done. The bad news: trilogy part III's seem to always get a bit longer - it's a trend I see staring back at me from the bookshelves as I type. So I'm at 420 of possible 465-ish, with some knots to unpick, then a couple of full on read-throughs to check it all sits together well and the pacing works. There is a light at the end of the tunnel. Release date? I'd love it to be September 2021. Might stretch a bit past that, but all being well I'll be done by then. What lies beyond? Well, ideas being as they are, I never get to the end of one thing with nothing else to start. What will work, what is just a side-idea for something else, remains to be seen. But the ideas are there, and that's always a good thing in my book(s).

*The Foreshadowing. Now there is a nifty name for something...