Weekly Update - 3/26/25 (Patreon)

I'm behind and yet, I'm so far ahead, it's crazy. I still have to get next month's chapter of Pack to its commissioner (it's, like, most of the way there, so relax) and then I have to get through the next QT2 chapter, but, see, here's the thing...

This morning when I woke up, for the first time, I knew how Book Two ends. Writing serialized fiction is, as I've said before, like leaping out of an airplane with a load of string and really fast hands. You hope you can knit your parachute before you hit the ground. When I started Quaranteam Book Two, I knew some of the things I wanted to cover, some of the things I was going to do along the way, but I didn't have a clear stopping point mapped out, even if I said that I did.

But this morning, with my bedroom window open all night, I was half-awake, half-asleep, and had a vision of what the final scene of Book Two was, and how I needed to get there. It gave me plot points to work at and drop in for the next 13 chapters (although I still have intermissions to figure out) and while I don't know the contents of all the next 13 chapters, I do know some of the major highlights, touchstones and key points I need to put into play. I know the waypoints I'll be stopping at along the way. The main Quaranteam story will be a three-book trilogy, with a fourth book and final providing a 'coda' to the whole thing, that book told from Matty's (Andy's son) perspective, starting on his 18th birthday. Granted, I'm still months away from wrapping Book 2, but knowing where I'm landing makes it a little easier getting there.

I've also started writing the rough outline for Have Totem, Will Travel (HTWT), the second of the Druid Gunslinger books that I've been commissioned to write, and we will start in on that next month. I still need to get cover descriptions to my artist guy. Maybe I'll take a chunk out of tomorrow or Friday to do some compositional photographs for him to use as references. Busy busy busy.

I'm still hoping to pipe out QT2:38, QTUM, QTPT, BP and get a new QTSS off to its commissioner before Monday, but that's a lot of writing left to do, so we'll see if I can stumble towards the finish line without too much hassle or if I'm stumbling a bit shorthanded to get everything finished. We're also only like a dozen or two new subscriptions away from me having to do a newly updated Quaranteam Dream Casting / Visual Guide, so when that hits, that'll be fun to fill in. I'll try and cast basically everyone who's got a major part in the QT verse, at least my own characters. (So no visual reference for, say, Break's Greerson.) I'll also probably line up the next You Decide! poll for this week sometime, so I can slot it early into next month.

Anyway, I should be writing instead of rapping here with you lot, so let's wrap up with what's coming to public sites and then get outta here. Here's the upcoming public schedule for the next month or so: 3/29 - QT:UM 4; 4/5 - Smokeland Slumdance 1, QT:PT 21; 4/12 - Neon Stonehenge 10; 4/19 - QT2:30.