May Update (Patreon)

Hey guys! Time flies when you're working hard.

April Productivity: ~54k. 7k BS7(+edits) (157k total), 23k SK4 (38k Total), 21k BS8 (29k total), ~2k Other Projects

In audiobook news, BS7 is being recorded now by Anne, and she had said she likely will finish around the end of May, early June. Alyssa Poon is scheduled to begin recording Soul Knight 3 before the end of May, and should finish sometime in June.

This means, thanks to proofing + audible review often taking a little over a month combined, a July or August timeframe for both audiobooks seems like a likely expectation for their release. Of course, there can always be delays.

Book 7 editing took a bit longer than I would have liked, and then I got a bit stalled out on certain things for both books. I'm also slogging through a couple of challenging scenes in both books, but I think I'll hit my stride here in May. I am relatively happy with the pace I had in april for both books, but I need to pick it up if I don't want it to be like 4+ months to finish both books. I suppose that wouldn't be the end of the world, but I really want to get down to under 3 months per book release.

I am not trying to rush things exactly but I am trying to be a little more flexible as to where the end of the book comes -- if I am constantly pushing out chapters at a steady pace, the actual cutoff point of the book, as long as it is not a huge cliff-hanger, should not be something I focus on too intensely. I feel like I have had an unreasonable focus on this, to reach such and such plot point and it has hurt my release cycle far too much. Soul Knight 3 definitely should have been two books, but by the time I realized this, I had already taken far too long to get there.

Anyway, that's it for me for now, nothing else major going on, I don't think. Once again, thanks for supporting me, and I'll see you guys next time.