Weekly Progress Update:

Weekly Progress Update:

Good morning! Hope everyone had a great holiday season.

This week has been really productive, which has been a much-needed change in pace. First, yesterday I had my first signing event at Barnes & Noble, which went great. I met another local SFF writer there, Dan R. Arman, who was also having two of his fantasy novels available for signing. It’s always great to meet other down-to-earth writers, especially local.

In other news, Book 3 now has an official title! I no longer will need to refer to it as ‘Book 3’, which gets insufferable after about six months. The new title is . . .

I had this name picked out from the first brainstorming session and was looking for any other ones that stood out. If you caught this Facebook post, then you know that I normally don’t pick a title until I’m nearly finished. Because, really, the title often picks itself based on the events, theme, and emotion you’re looking for. But this time, I was pretty sold on Ravaged, as it hit all three qualifiers I was looking for.

The only thing I was waiting for was to flesh out the full outline to make sure that the plot points I had planned still fit the word. And holy poop, you better believe they do. If I tried to summarize what I have planned for Orcblood Legacy: Ravaged it would be:

In Ravaged, NO ONE is safe.

My books often implement some elements of Grim Dark Fantasy, which I enjoy. Ravaged will be no different. One of the tropes I love to write is that just when things seem to be going well, the worst happens. Then it happens again. And again.

And even MORE this week, Fangdarr and Bitrayuul’s Skirmishes are now completed. I have to compile, edit, and format them to start publishing the Collection. This is the first I have planned, with many more to come over time. I’m pretty sure I’ve put the list before, but I’ll do so again here:

Skirmish Collections:
1. Orcs (Fangdarr/Bitrayuul)
2. Dwarves (Cormac/Hagan)
3. Elves (Aesthéa/Elethain)
4. Satyrs (Brea’la/Thrax’ul)
5. Humans (Lucien/Gerty)
6. Assassins (Malice/Chakal)
7. Dragons (Crepusculus/Aurum)

Lots and lots of work. I’ll still probably be writing a Skirmish or two per week, trying to aim for 15 – 25 per character. Normally, that’d mean each collection will take 30 – 50 weeks, so 6 – 12 months. I’d like to move a bit faster than that, but we’ll see what happens as I’ll be working in tandem with Book Three Ravaged.

Overall, there’s a lot planned and it feels good to get back into it. I plan to finish Ravaged‘s Prologue today and will probably release it well in advance of the book, as always. Just to tease.

Once Ravaged is done, then it’s on to the spin-off for one of the side characters, then to the Prequel, then back to another set of three books. That sounds a bit more confusing than it is:

Book Writing Order:
1. Orcblood Legacy: Honor – Published Nov 15, 2018
2. Orcblood Legacy: Madness – Published Nov 15, 2019
3. Orcblood Legacy: Ravaged – Work in Progress, no date yet
4. Side Character Spin-off – Not started [Chronologically takes place after Madness, at the same time as Ravaged, just in a different setting]
5. Prequel – Not started [Chronologically takes place before Honor, following Brutigarr and Vrutnag, before Fangdarr and Bitrayuul were born]
6. Book 4 – Not started [Chronologically takes place right after Ravaged]
7. Book 5 – Not started [Chronologically takes place right after Book 4]
8. Book 6 – Not started [Chronologically takes place right after Book 5]

That’s the next few years of my plans, with Skirmishes being published throughout that time. It’s more than likely another five years of work, but who knows.

See you on the battlefield!