January had a few surprises but I managed to maintain focus last month and get a lot accomplished.
Where Am I?
| Words for the Month | 77,946 |
| Words for the Year | 77,946 |
| Current WIP (Dark Knight Station: Origins) | 53,966 |
| Streak (110 Days) | 309,623 |
What doesn’t show here is that I finished the preliminary drafts of The Wizard’s Butler and gotten beta reader feedback on it. I’ve seen the cover art sketches and I’m really stoked.
ICYMI: Cape Grace is out
I’ll be pushing out the paperback in the next couple of weeks and Podium has stepped up to produce the Audible versions. No word yet on who will read or when they’ll be available. Stay tuned.
What Else Is Happening?
Home Run should be out though Audible on March 3rd. Pre-orders will be available a week or so before then.
Hostage (Barbarians Book 1) has a full draft. This is the book that my daughter and I are trying to co-write. She gave me her half a few days ago. The ball is in my court at the moment. I’m trying to get The Wizard’s Butler read for the editor so this is on the back burner while she gets her next book – All’s Well In Asgaard – ready for release.
Dark Knight Station: Origins is my current WIP. I needed something to write when I finished the Butler so I picked up and combined some of the ideas that fans submitted to write the origin story of Dark Knight Station and how Verkol Kondur came to run it.
Troy Harbor (Shaman’s Tales: Book 3) will slot in after that. I think. It seems pretty clear from the feedback that people need that closure and I’d rather do it now while the wounds are still bleeding than to heal up from the Cape Grace ordeal, only to rip them open again.
Besides, I’ve got about half of it done already in clipped out stuff from a year trying to write Cape Grace. I’m hoping this one won’t be as painful.
There’s probably more, but the key piece of news here is that the plans that I started working on in October and November have stood me in good stead through December and January. They seem to be flexible enough that they stand up to the day-to-day struggle of staying on top of new words while still editing and producing the works that are in second and later draft stages.
I owe some of that to my Publishing Planner and more of it to the group of writers I’m hanging with – all of whom are cheering each other on while holding us accountable to our goals.
It’s only the first month of 2020, but so far, so good.
Excellent! I grabbed Cape Grace and will try to leave a review once I finish it. Thank you for the updates.
All fantastic news Nathan, thank you
Just finished Cape Grace not the happiest book I have read, but definitely one of the best.
Nathan thank you.
Paul
Just finished Cape Grace. Well done Nathan. I have to hope a follow on story will get Sarah and Otto to a happier place.
Keep up the good writing.
You do realize that Sarah’s story continues in Half Share, right?
There will be one more Shaman’s Tale. Troy Harbor. Sarah won’t be in it. Otto might.
Whelkies…
Okay fella, I’ve just finished Cape Grace and this is the second time you’ve broken my heart, or maybe the fourth or fifth (it happens every time I read Owner’s Share). Too spoiler-ish?
I hope when you revisit the Golden Age we’ll get to see Sarah again, though it will be twenty-four-years after Cape Grace. Unless you want to give her a space-faring shaman trilogy of her own, beginning when Ishmael leaves the Lois. There’s an idea — solar clippers need healers of their own. Billy Paul needed one, and Ishmael too.
And will we every get to see Stacy Arellone again?
Also, who is selling the whelkies in the St. Cloud orbital flea market? Did I miss a clue about that?
Thanks for the stories.