August Update (Patreon)

Hey guys! It's that time again. Time for your author update.

Words Written in July: 62k SKB2 (152k total)

It was a pretty productive month, even if it was mostly heartbreaking on the homefront. I had yet another offer fall through, and my house remains unsold. The school year is about to start for the kids, and I'm really not sure what to do -- we assumed we would be at our destination by now.

Bonded Summoner Book 6 Audio should be done relatively soon I have been told. I'm just waiting for Anne and Jack to finish recording to hear some of it for myself, but I was told their original plan was to be done by now.

On a positive note, I am really close to typing the words, "End of Book 2." After that, I will go back and write all the explicit scenes and then edit the book, adding many small details and improving things where I can. I would not be too surprised if the book ends up being as long or longer than book 1, which was 186k words. Because of my home situation, I am actually shooting for an early September release, rather than July/August as I had originally planned. The book ended up being longer than I anticipated, and I was also slower as well.

I mentioned this before in an update / comment and on discord, that I feel that Luna is a bit neglected. I plan on revamping nearly all of her dialogue and moments, to try to make her stand out a bit more, or give her additional moments. Many of you might not know this, but I had done this for Ophelia way back in the day for BS book 2, and I was really happy with how it turned out. Originally, she had nearly no presence in book 2 other than her 1v1, hardly ever adding comments or anything aside from battle-related things.

As an aside, I do feel like the Kaya/Eirwen presence from middle to end of the book is way low, too. I may insert something involving them even if it's just a dream date or something, where nobody else is present to get their moment again. The lumos chapter led by Eirwen was just too...informational, since Nick wasn't around to play off of them.

Anyway, I know my goal was originally to have Bonded Summoner 7 out before the end of this year, but I am doubting unless I increase my productivity that this is going to happen. I feel like Soul Knight Book 3 might be the next priority for me based on what I'm feeling now, but I do think I will start inserting chapters of Bonded Summoner here and there on patreon here. I already have ~1/2 of a chapter written for book 7 so far, so it has been on my mind.

So that's my current plans. Once again, thank you all for supporting me, and I'll see you guys around.