Sneak-Peek: Next Projects and Irresponsible Speculation (Patreon)

Hi all!

My editor has finished PMF 6: No Man's Land, and says no major rewrites are necessary! This is a huge relief for me, as I was concerned about pacing & clarity. We still need to meet, and I need to do another run-through to address her suggestions... and then there's the proofread, which is a different hurdle. But if you're interested in "book progress," this is the point where I have enough info to get the title work done for the cover and pitch the book to Audible.

I am in a HUGE hurry to get this book out, 'cause my bank account is saying NOW NOW NOW. That said, I'm doing the due diligence of getting it RIGHT first... but it'll be out soon! (Also, I imagine the ebook & paperback will be out well before a potential audio version. Unless Audible throws me a huge advance or has new terms & conditions for a simultaneous release, I don't see how I can afford to wait.)

But with main production done, this brings us to the question of "what's next." I almost rambled into this with one of my more recent posts, but realized things were getting long and maybe this should be its own topic. Plus right now I'm still at a speculative stage where everything is "maybe" and I fear anything I say might be misinterpreted as a promise... but hey, this is the Patreon, right?

Anyway, if you're wondering what's my next project, the truth is, I'm not sure yet. I have things in mind and things sort-of started, and also priorities that may or may not be enough to move things to the front-burner.

So, NO PROMISES, but things in contention for the Next Novel after PMF 6:

-Good Intentions 5: This feels like the obvious thing. I take for granted that this has the highest demand. You don't need to tell me it's what you're wanting, or that I should obviously do this, because I KNOW. It's my most-visible thing after PMF, and most likely to sell, and the last one came out in 2020... but this is also the project with the fuzziest and most distant ideas. I can list things I want to do with this book. I have plot points I want to hit. I don't have an actual plot yet. This is also the thing that will take the longest to write, so... yeah. Want to do it, gonna do it, but I don't know if it's "next" yet.

-Wandering Monsters 3: This has the smallest readership of my three series, but I love it and it does have readers. What makes this a likely project is that it's the one thing I can actually outline to its ending. I have a solid idea for the opening. WM books are also shorter, so it'd be faster to write. This means it has a lot going for it... but it would delay bigger things. I'm not sure if I'll jump to this or not. (We'll see how I feel about writing more gamer-oriented sword & sorcery when Baldur's Gate 3 unlocks on my console in a few more hours...)

-Evan's Story: Evan from God on the Run and Celestial Navigation here on the Patreon will have his own novel. This is firmly set in the world of Good Intentions and it will tie in with those stories, but don't expect Alex, Rachel, or Lorelei to show up; this is Evan's own story. I wrote the next chapter over the last couple weeks, and realized last night I need to make a couple significant rewrites, but it's moving along. You will likely see at least chapter 3 on the Patreon before I go dark to write the rest of this book. It seems to be the thing I'm most excited about, and therefore the likely choice.

-PMF 7: The least likely thing. I don't think I want to do back-to-back Tanner books... but I have a solid idea for the next novel and I'm looking forward to it.

-Other Things Entirely: Believe it or not, I have other books besides all these things that I want to write. Right now I need to lean toward the more financially reliable thing, though, and that means leaning on series or series-related stuff.

That's where I'm at, if you're curious. Please take note that there's no poll here; again, I take for granted that a lot of folks here want GI 5. *I* want GI 5. Turns out demand is not the only factor, though... so we'll see where we're going!

Thanks for reading, and as always, thank you SO MUCH for your support! If you're on the story tier, the monthly story should be up in just a little bit!