A Goodreads user asked Scott Hawkins:

Do you have a rough date for the next book you'll publish? I've never read anything like Mount Char, and I'm dying to see what you have up your sleeve for any next book.

Scott Hawkins It really is hard to say. At this writing (Sept. 1, 2019) I'm just about done with a major rewrite of the book I was working on last year at this time. It's in the ballpark of done. If you added up all the remaining problems that I know about, we're probably talking a couple of weeks worth of work. Once that's done I start showing it to other people. But the reason you get feedback from other people is so they can point out problems that you missed. Your guess is as good as mine on how what they'll find and how long it will take to fix. Sometimes it's "long weekend" sometime's it's "this is unfixable. Start over."

That said, I've got a good feeling about this one. Also my wife read the first four chapters and liked it. That's actually a really good sign. You'd hear "wife" and thing "oh, she'll cut him some slack." No. That is not how it works with Heather. She was (justifiably) savage with what I showed her last year, which is a good part of how we got to the major rewrite that I've been working on for the last nine months.

Anyway, the upshot is I don't know but hopefully pretty soon. That vague enough for you?

Thanks for the interest though.

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