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Book five will be wrapping up this week. Technically, it would have been Monday, but I'll be posting a bonus chapter either Friday or Saturday with book 5's epilogue to celebrate the conclusion of the book, as well as passing 300 chapters, which happened a few chapters back.

Now for the bad news. Book 6 is the final book in the BSE series that I have planned. If the series does well on Amazon and Audible, I may do a follow-up series with the same characters, but that won't happen for some time. Since Book 6 is the last planned book, I need to start gearing up for my next series. To do that, I will be reducing BSE's chapter releases to 3 a week, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, starting next week. Eventually, the new story will get posted on Tuesday and Thursday.

I already have some chapters written for the new series, but don't expect to see any of them on Patreon for a few weeks. My goal is to have book one complete or nearly complete before posting it on RR, so that's about 3 months of writing for one story. At least for me. It will probably be more like five months since I will be working on two stories at once.

Oh, and for anyone curious, it'll be a spaceship core series.

Comments

TheGokudragon

Sounds good and if you do a story with same characters from bse I suggest maybe an origin story of Alex and the Collective be an option if you haven't already considered it. Or even a book on the origin of each ie the Collective, STO, Union.

M.J. Markgraf

It's funny that you mention this. Alexander's origin story was the first story I ever wrote a decade ago, over 90k words that I used as the background to make BSE. It'll never see the light of day in its current form, however, because the writing is atrocious, but I still loved the idea behind the story. Maybe someday I'll rewrite it.

Kim-Jong-Jesus

I’m curious how your going to do a ship core series and I’m kinda hoping it’s like Dean Henegar’s derelict series (or his story on royal road Gunboat)

M.J. Markgraf

I haven't read Derelict, but I have read a few chapters of Gunboat. There won't be any RPG, experience, or mob-type things to unlock ship rooms or systems in my new story. ShipCore might be a closer approximation, but only barely.

Duke of Coffee

Huh well as long there is no forced school arc and unused chekrov guns, I'll be happy to see another shipcore fic.

Vlast

I usually preach for authors to have a plan for books and mention mother of learning as an example for when to end the story. Still it is a sobering thought that your favorite story will end sooner rather than later. I think you managed to grasp the writing style that works for you and the readers to deliver solid soft sci-fi series. Would love to read your new book, even if I'm not into the "core" genre.

Moosh

Hyped for a spaceship core series.