Happy New Year, everyone!  Here’s what I’ve got planned for 2025.

Now that the edits on Book 3 are done, my big project for the first half of this year is going to be writing the first draft of Book 4 in the Inheritance of Magic series.  I’d hoped to have started by now, but edits took a little longer than expected and in any case this one is going to take a fair amount of work to plan out – it’s effectively the start of a new ‘mini-trilogy’ within the series, where I’ll have to start off a bunch of new plotlines.  Organising that kind of thing takes time, so I don’t have a fixed start date as yet.  But no matter how long it takes, that’s what I’m going to be spending most of my time on for the foreseeable future.

Speaking of Book 3, it now has a title:  A Judgement of Powers.  The last of the first-round edits are finished, and I’m just waiting for the copy-edits, which should come through some time this month.  In any case, the book’s pretty much finalised at this point, so I’m not thinking about it very much any more.  Book 4 is the priority.

As for the website, I’ve got some more Beginner’s Guide to Drucraft articles lined up ready to go.  The next few will be a mini-series on Motion essentia:  first an overview of the branch, then a couple more describing some of the more common Motion sigls, including most of the ones you’ve see in the books so far.  After that I think we’ll take a break from the Drucraft branches and do something a bit different, since I don’t want to do all six branches one after the other without a break.  Possible topics include:  corporations (similar to the House articles that I did last year), attunement (what makes a sigl compatible with a wielder), country affinities, and sigl recycling (since this is one that readers have asked about a lot).  Haven’t decided which to do first.

Hope your New Year goes well, and I’ll be seeing you around!