CLOAK OF EMBERS table of contents!

I am finally far enough along to share the Table of Contents for CLOAK OF EMBERS!

CLOAK OF EMBERS in its (mostly) final form turned out to be about 110,000 words long, which both makes it the longest book I wrote in 2023 and the longest Nadia book to date.

You might also note that the chapter count expanded from 22 to 27. I am not exactly a stickler for chapter length (to the annoyance of some readers) and generally my rule of thumb is that a chapter needs to be as long as it needs to be to cover the necessary scenes. That said, a couple of the chapters were way too long. Like, I don’t currently have plans to do CLOAK OF EMBERS as an audiobook, but if I did, some of the chapters would have needed to be split up anyway because I don’t think ACX allows chapters longer than seventy minutes. Better to take care of that now than to have it become a headache a few years down the road if circumstances change and we do more CLOAK MAGE audiobooks.

And I do always enjoy thinking up the chapter titles.

Anyway, if all goes well, I hope the book will be out next week before Thanksgiving!

-JM