A Little Celebration Post
I’ll get this out of the way first: No, this doesn’t have anything to do with SPFBO8. As of the date this writing, I still haven’t heard anything about my book or how it’s faring in the competition. It hasn’t been eliminated, but that’s all I know.
No, I’m celebrating something entirely different. I finished writing book 3 in The Mage War Chronicles! It’s tentatively titled Magic in the Deeps.
I’m very pleased with the story and how it fits in with the rest of the series. You’ll finally get to see the aquatic Sevanni people – they were mentioned in passing in The Caein Legacy (set in the same world), but this is the first time the readers get to experience their culture beneath the sea.
Here’s my working synopsis for Magic in the Deeps:
Marked, yet unable to train as a mage, Seren do’Vox is forced into a life of the Circle’s design. The Circle rule the aquatic Sevanni people and enforce their edicts strictly, often to the detriment of those they deem problematic. Those who are judged unfit are escorted away from the colonies and left to fend for themselves amongst the ocean’s greatest predators. Most do not survive long.
As a man, Seren has little say in his future, but a chance meeting with Aila, a woman sympathetic to his plight, changes the course of his life in ways he could never have foreseen. For the first time, Seren harbors hope that he can achieve his dream of becoming a mage. With Aila’s help, he plans to break free of the Circle’s grasp, no matter the cost.
Just as he begins to believe he’s succeeded, the Circle’s greatest champion tracks him down. Forced to flee, Seren leaves for the one place the Circle cannot reach him: Land.
Learn more about The Mage War Chronicles on my website: The Mage War Chronicles
If you’ve followed my writing for a while, you’ll know that I’m constantly adding stories to my “completed” list, even while previous works are pending publication. Maybe it’s a bit backwards from how most authors do it, but it feels like it takes some stress off me, knowing that I have a backlog to publish.
With that in mind, I will publish The Mage War Chronicles – after I’ve published The Caein Legacy (it’s looking like that will begin in 2023!) The Mage War Chronicles might still be a couple years out, but it gives me time to get more of the books written before that time. And yes, there will be more books in that series. At least 7 total, for now. That might increase depending on where the next 3 take me (I have outlines, so there is a plan…)
It’s always a bit of a thrill when I reach the end of a book, even if it’s only the draft version of the story. To know that it’s complete after months or weeks of work is an amazing feeling. It never gets old – and maybe that’s part of the reason I keep writing.
I started writing Magic in the Deeps the first week of April, so this particular book took me about 3 months. Not bad, considering work has been crazy and we spent a month of weekends painting the house.
So what’s next, you ask?
I’ll be revising Guardian (book 2 in The Caein Legacy) as I continue to work on moving that series toward publication. Then I’ll go back to Magic in the Deeps for my first round of edits.
As for what I’ll be writing next, I haven’t officially decided yet. I have a few options, one of which is book 4 in The Mage War Chronicles (no title yet). I also have a couple ideas that tie into The Relics of War trilogy that I might work on, and that one science fiction piece that’s been haunting me for over a decade. I may have figured out a full plot line for it a few weeks ago, which is exciting, but given my history with that story, I’m not sure it will ever be finished. We shall see how I’m feeling once revisions/edits are done, and what I’m most excited to write next.
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