WIP Update

So, I finished writing Book 3 of the now-not-a-trilogy but a start of a 7-book series. And have gotten it to beta readers for feedback. I'm pleased with the first three, most especially how quickly I cranked these books out after a 15-month dry spell where I wrote fuck-all:

Book 1 (BRIGHTEYES): 14 days
Book 2 (INFERNA): 7 days
Book 3 (TANTRUM): 20 days

They're all around 81K words, which is shorter than what I usually write for novels, but they feel jam-packed with story and characterization to me. I'm going to keep the whole series that length.

They're all written in first-person, which probably accounts for why I can crank through them, as they're narrating through one primary protagonist in Book 1 and two primary protagonists in Book 2 and Book 3.

Anyway, I'm going to likely take this week to read through all three yet again and make sure everything's buttoned-up continuity-wise. Once that's done, I'll start writing Book 4, although Book 4 is fiending to be written right now. I'm just trying to be disciplined and making sure 1-3 are all ironclad before going deeper into the series.

Oh, and the "house band" for Book 3 was definitely Veruca Salt. They steamrolled their way to the front of the line:

Veruca Salt | I'm Telling You Now