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Wool 6 is now considered "in draft." I'm a third of the way through my first revision. There will be many more to come. Soon, it will go out to my handy dandy team of editors (my wife and my mother, possibly another). After their input is massaged into the work, a handful of beta readers will get their turn to rip the story apart. Soon after, it will go out to the masses.
Still weighing the title and eager for input here. The logical title is: Wool 6 – Legacy. This makes it easy for readers to find. However, I'm tempted to retire the "Wool" moniker and call this "First Shift – Legacy," or something like that. And then note that it is the sixth book in the Silo Series. It gets rather confusing this way, but I love the 5 Wool books so much and don't want to taint them with a never ending string of subsequent stories. The problem, then, would be determining the reading order or even having readers find the dang book.
As always, I'm open to suggestions.
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To me, I think the question on the title is... would the new "Wool 6" stand on its own outside the other 5 Wool books? If so, then I supposed renaming it wouldn't hurt. Without knowing too much about what direction you are taking the story it is hard to say. Would someone be upset if they found and read Wool 6 before reading the other 5 Wools (the Wool Pentalogy?) Would it spoil anything? The 1st Wool book is such a great way to be introduced to the silos... it is hard to imagine a reader not starting there. But perhaps that is only my limited imagination.
Good questions, Nathan. I would prefer the books read in order, but I lean toward keeping the Wool pentology (great neologism!) together.Here's the prospective cover/title:
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