Joyce
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Michael J. Sullivan:
Looking forward to reading about Royce and Haydren next adventure(s)!
Michael J. Sullivan
Hey thanks! I am too ;-) So here's the skinny on more Royce and Hadrian stories. I've said all along that I wanted to be careful about not letting the pair overstay their welcome. So, I'm adopting the stance of putting out some books, judging the feedback, then deciding if there should be another one.
The jury is in and there WILL be a third Riyria Chronicle. It's page is already here on goodreads (here is a link to it), so you can add it to your page and goodreads will let you know when it is published. The "date" on it currently is just a placeholder until I know more about the official date.
So what will the date be? I'm shooting for 2015. Here's the deal. I only recently announced (a few days ago) that my new series, The First Empire will be released from Random House in the summer of 2016. If that series wasn't picked up by a publisher, then Rhune (the first book in that series) would have been put out in 2015. But, since that won't happen until 2016...I need a 2015 book - and so I'm going to slate the next Royce and Hadrian book for that.
To make the 2015 date, I'll have to self-publish it...but that's okay, I've done that before so it shouldn't be a problem. To me, getting a book out in 2015 is more important than having a publisher release it.
So, there you are - a new Royce and Hadrian book coming later this year (if all goes well). I still have to finish up the last book of The First Empire, but that is going well and I'm expecting it to wrap in a few months.
The jury is in and there WILL be a third Riyria Chronicle. It's page is already here on goodreads (here is a link to it), so you can add it to your page and goodreads will let you know when it is published. The "date" on it currently is just a placeholder until I know more about the official date.
So what will the date be? I'm shooting for 2015. Here's the deal. I only recently announced (a few days ago) that my new series, The First Empire will be released from Random House in the summer of 2016. If that series wasn't picked up by a publisher, then Rhune (the first book in that series) would have been put out in 2015. But, since that won't happen until 2016...I need a 2015 book - and so I'm going to slate the next Royce and Hadrian book for that.
To make the 2015 date, I'll have to self-publish it...but that's okay, I've done that before so it shouldn't be a problem. To me, getting a book out in 2015 is more important than having a publisher release it.
So, there you are - a new Royce and Hadrian book coming later this year (if all goes well). I still have to finish up the last book of The First Empire, but that is going well and I'm expecting it to wrap in a few months.
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