Looks like I blew right through April without a blog post. Whoops. (How are we almost halfway through the year already?)
We’ve had a death in the family, so the regular routine was thoroughly derailed for obvious reasons. It wasn’t a surprise–the family member was 81 and in failing health–but these things are never easy no matter how prepared you think you are.
We just got back from a week-long trip south to attend the celebration of life, and now I am back in the office and working on finishing ECLIPSE, Palladium Wars #5. I had aimed to have it done by the end of April, but life happens, and sometimes schedules get upended. But I’ve heeded the wise words of Stephen King, who said (in ON WRITING, his excellent treatise on the craft), that life isn’t a support system for art–it’s the other way around. If I need to step away from the keyboard for a bit to address important real-life events, that’s just the way it goes.
I’ll need a few weeks to edit ECLIPSE and get it ship-shape before I release it on KDP (to what I hope will be an enthusiastic reception and EXTREME sales numbers so my publisher can have proper regrets for dropping the series after Book #4), so expect that one in late June if all goes well.
Next up after that will be a new stand-alone for 47North with the working title of COHORT. I’ll let you know more about that one as soon as I can. As this is a 47North book, it will have a 2027 release date. In the meantime, please to be looking forward to the December release of CYGNUS, the third and final book in the Frontlines: Evolution series, and the best one of the whole lot as far as I’m concerned.
(That doesn’t mean I am done with Frontlines or its spin-off. Stand by for news on that subject soon-ish.)
When are you going to finish Frontlines? I read book 8 a couple of years ago and have been waiting for Book 9. I have no interest in reading other series from an author who just decides to drop a series without completing previous works.
Book 8 was the final book in the original Frontlines series. And holy cow, check your tone there. Do you think I’d spend ten years of my life to write an eight-book series and then just decide on a whim that I want to drop the whole thing? Right now I’m writing book 5 in a series which my publisher dropped after book 4 just so I get to finish the story and don’t leave the fans hanging.
sorry for your loss.
can’t wait for the next Frontlines book
My condolences for your loss. It’s never easy in any circumstance. Looking forward the final bill in the Palladium series. Appreciate the update.
We’re just grateful for ANYTHING from the best SciFi write on the planet. SOOOO…
WHENEVER you finish *anything*, lettuce no and we will all jump all over it.
Life happens. I do appreciate the update. Frontlines remains one of my favorites. If there are no more Lankies forthcoming, I can always go back and reread the series ( for the fourth or fifth time).
I can tell you with 100% certainty that there are in fact more Lankies forthcoming.
That’s both A Good Thing and A Bad Thing…
Condolences for your loss Marko.