I’m going to see if making this post later in the day helps with traffic.  If it doesn’t then I’m switching it back to Sunday.  Seems while people are busy posting on Saturday, there isn’t much action.  Understandable since this is the day most people are running around, sleeping in, or skipping the computer.  At least I think it is.  Then again, perhaps it’s just me over here.

Book 10 is moving along and I’m hoping to be done by the end of March.  The writing side went very well this week, but one little snafu came about due to an added chapter.  My heroes are split up in this book with one of the groups being more minor and their tale being the focus of Book 11.  Well, I’ve been needing to rewrite that outline for a while and I had maybe 50% I could salvage.  The new chapter brings that down to maybe 20% since the story is getting an extra focus.  Book 11 used to be about one character and now another needs a major subplot to settle some things.  No way around it, but it’s much better this way.  The new addition has been treading water for a bit and was starting to drown.  This is needed to revive them.

Beyond that, I’m working with my editor on ‘Sleeper of the Wildwood Fugue’.  I’m setting up a ‘Hype Week’ for the end of March/beginning of April, but it isn’t confirmed that the book will be out around then.  Medical issue might cause a delay.  I’m really hoping to avoid another mid-Month debut, but it is what it is.  I have no momentum going into this book thanks to January/February being slow and a long series being a strange creature that I can’t figure out how to promote.

The overall goal here is simply to hold on until I get all the books out, pepper the breaks with ‘Ichabod Brooks Adventures’, and then decide what to do next. I’m condensing a lot, so I fear that I’ll be left with series that run from 3-9.  Some of the smaller ones require bigger stories to happen for events to make sense and avoid spoilers.  This is the problem with weaving a massive world through multiple stories, series, and characters.  A person can read out of order if they want and get the ‘oh, so that’s what happened’ light bulb.  The author, at least me, risks messing up another book if he mucks around in a smaller one.  Though I tossed out the Project Phoenix and divided it into smaller books for each other retained heroes.  If I connect them then it will be very loosely.  I’m just rambling here.

I only have 4 days to write this week, so I’m hoping to get a little done over the weekend.  I have a chest cold that makes my mornings rough.  Waking up and feeling like I have cement in my lungs is never fun.  Moving around and a hot drink can help clear that up, but it’s still exhausting.  So I’ve been a zombie most nights and I bet it’s only a matter of time before I hit a day where I can’t function at all.  Here’s hoping that’s after I finish writing this book.

So, what’s the plan for the week?

1. Write more of Book 10, which will include the climactic battle between two long-standing characters.  Been itching for this one.
2. Perhaps a little future book notes.
3. Add two more of my books to a new marketing site that I’m testing out.  Sales have been dead all month, so I don’t know what to think here.  Nothing is working.
4. See if I can finish reading ‘Ranger’s Apprentice 10’ and move on to another book.  I’m deciding between ‘Pearseus Book 0’ and ‘The Quest for the Holy Something and Other’.  My ‘To Read’ list is massive since I’m so slow.

5. Host a TWUBS Chat from 8-11 PM EST next Saturday.  More later.

6. Peruse the Book 11 outline and see where I’m going with it.  This might be why I’m having later series be contained stories with the same characters.  Still an order to it, but bad guys don’t always transfer over.  At least with Sin and Darwin.  Need to check Clyde again since his series is tougher than the others.
7. Editing ‘Sleeper of the Wildwood Fugue’ and crossing fingers that I can get it out in early April.