Started January 8th, and finished today! The final book of Morgan’s trilogy is done!
*pause*
*exhale*
At least the draft is. The editing stage is going to take longer than average because I’ll be doing all three books of this trilogy at once. (That’s roughly 1100 pages’ worth of stuff, mind.) My goal, then, hazily, is to let the story lie for a few weeks while I think about anything else, and then start that work… once I’m pleased with how it’s looking, I’ll be asking for first readers (probably sometime in late April/early May). The plan is still to self-publish; I am considering using Kindle Scout for Book 1, but if that doesn’t fly I’ll have the book back within a month, and I’ll still be able to make my early summer release date. We’ll see how that goes.
From a goals perspective, my only fiction goal for this year was to release this trilogy, because between this and Thief of Songs I’ll have put out four new novels this year. As a reward for accomplishing that, I’ve told myself I can do whatever I want with the remainder of 2015. I can faff around in existing universes, run serials for pennies, whatever floats my boat. What I’m thinking will float my boat is to write some fun things in my existing universes, like another book for the Eldritch, and possibly Book 2 of Amet and Dancer’s story (in which they have their First Real Fight—oh noez!). But I’m not going to look seriously at any of that until the Blood Ladders trilogy is off at retailers.
I am cautiously stunned/pleased to be done, or at least so close to done, because you never stop messing with a book until it’s up for sale. This trilogy was hard for me and stretched me in many ways! I will probably need a few weeks to decompress. I am looking forward to them.
So… yes! Happiness! I r done! It is now time to faceplant into some celebratory chocolate! *goes off to do this*