(Image is of Freya and Skadi, both sitting on the landing of the stairs in the new house, looking up expectantly at me as I head down to feed them)
Apologies for missing last month’s update. I got slammed with what felt like everything all at once—including selling our old house. In theory, once the offer is accepted, that’s supposed to be straightforward and it mostly was. I just ended up having to gently explain how some pieces of the documents we provided worked (the advantage of having been an accountant and worked in the condo business!)
I did manage to get the French translations moving and out into the wild. Unfortunately, my translated-by-an-actual-person books appear to have arrived alongside Amazon rolling out a native AI translate in KDP, so Vivian Faure’s excellent work is being lost amongst what I fear is a deluge of slop.
So, uh, please tell your French-reading friends about the books!
Currently I am 75,000 words into Alien Olympus (Starship’s Mage 19 / Mars Unconquered 1) and have realized that I’m only about halfway through the outline. I have written 150,000 word novels before, but I know that they suffer for it. Plus, I have two weeks to finish the book and I’d rather not write 70,000 words in two weeks!
The outline for Alien Olympus is getting split into two books. Thankfully, there is a reasonable break point I can expand to be a novel ender, clearly leading into book 20, tentatively entitled Project Acropolis.
(This probably means that Starship’s Mage is going to wrap up at least a book later than I had planned. If Mars Unconquered runs five books, then… I think that will bring us to book 23?!)
Overall, the release schedule as fixed for this year is:
March 26 – Broken Prince (House Adamant 5)
April 16 – Le Serment du Chasseur (Sang du Changelin 2)
May 21 – Spirit Blade (Spirit Knight 1 – this is the new urban fantasy)
June 18 – l’Honneur du Noble (Sang du Changelin 3)
July 23 – Alien Olympus (Starship’s Mage 19 / Mars Unconquered 1)
September – Flesh and Steel (working title) Saints of the Void 2
November – Wild Star (working title) (House Adamant 6)
My next project up is the third Aether Spheres book, so once I finish Alien Olympus I’m going to be spending a day or two just reading and refreshing myself on that trilogy. Hopefully, everything will be in place for the last Kickstarter this fall.
The goal keeps being to calm my life down so I can both write the books and have space to breathe, but there always seems to be something!
Keep an eye on this space for Broken Prince ARCs in the next week or so.
Happy reading everyone!
-Glynn Stewart
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