Revisiting Low Town: Will I Ever See Gage Again?

I've ended two series now -- Dark Days and Asylum Tales -- but I haven't managed to make a clean break. I don't know how many authors ever achieve such a thing. It seems like we all drift back to write a short story or a novella or a spin-off novel when we've said we were "done."  For the Dark Days series, it was "Bound to Me," a novella that was really a prequel to the series that gave you a look at Mira and Valerio.  For Asylum ... that's tricky.

You see... there's only so much I can say here because many readers might not have read Inner Demon and I don't want to spoil the end for people.  But I understand you have questions.  Questions about Gage, Trixie, Bronx, the Towers, Lilith...

Let me see if I can do a delicate tap dance to answer your questions without giving away surprises.

Am I going to write another Asylum Tales book?

Technically, no.

Really?  Technically...

The Asylum Tales series derives its name for the Asylum Tattoo Parlor, which is owned by Gage Powell.  All Asylum Tales stories  -- from the novellas to the novels to the short story -- are told from Gage's point of view. Simply, there won't be any more stories told from Gage's point of view.  In my eyes, I'm finished with his leg of the journey in Low Town. As such, no more Asylum Tales books.

Okay, so I feel like there's a big "but" coming ...

Dancing in my head is a new book set in Gage's world, but it is set about 20-30 years in the future from the ending of Inner Demon . There would be a totally new storyteller. If you've read Demon's Fury , then you can probably guess as to who the new storyteller is going to be. (Yeah, I'm that evil.)

Have you started writing that?  When will be we be able to read it?

No, I haven't started writing it yet.  I am working on these projects at the moment - one of which includes a spin-off for the Dark Days series.  If I finish the book, I will make sure that you have a way of reading it, whether it's released through a publisher, self-pubbed, or just posted on my website.