Yael asked Scott Hawkins:

I just finished "The Library at Mount Char". I must read more of your books! Are you writing a new book? Hope you'll write a lot more fiction books. Looking forward to reading them. You are very talented. Never read a book like this one.

Scott Hawkins Hi Yael,

Thanks! Yes, I'm getting close. There's a full-ish draft on paper--sixeteen chapters and 133,781 words as of 9:42 a.m. on April 29, 2018.

The way I work is to do stuff in sort of random order without worrying too much about continuity or order or anything other than the vaguest notions of plot. When I've got a pile of scenes that I like, I spend a couple weeks with coffee and a spreadsheet working out details. Then I go back through and Frankenstein the whole thing together.

That's the stage I'm at now. I'll probably finish up the continuity edit of chapter 9 tonight or tomorrow.

Once that's done, I do one last pass for polish. That will go quick. Then it's off to the beta readers for feedback.

Anyway, it should be done shortly. Like, weeks instead of months.

It's in the same vein as Mount Char in the sense that it's a fantasy set in the modern world. It's a kind of noir detective story, with a supernatural twist and a lot of black humor.

Thanks for reading--I swear I'm on this 3h day, every day. Sorry it's taking so long.

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