With the Sigl Recycling series done and March coming to a close, here’s some general news.

An Inheritance of Magic has had its German language release as of last week.  There’s some good news about its sales numbers which I’m not allowed to share until they’re released officially on Monday, so I’ll save the details on this one for next week!

Unfortunately, Book #4 is going slower than I’d hoped.  I’ve had some family matters to take care of, and they’ve ended up taking up quite a lot of the early parts of this year.  My writing’s largely a one-man operation – the job involves both writing, rewriting, and editing, along with marketing- and business-related tasks, as well as maintaining and doing the posts for this website, and while I do get some help from my publishers and beta readers, the majority of the work is stuff that can’t really be delegated.  In general I’m fine with this, but it does mean that if I get called away, there isn’t anyone I can hand things off to while I’m gone.  So when something urgent happens and I have to spend a few weeks dealing with it (as I had to this March) everything pretty much grinds to a halt.  As a result, Book #4 is currently sitting at around 25,000 words, which, while it isn’t nothing, is quite a way behind where I need it to be if I want to make that end-of-summer deadline I set myself.  I’ll do my best to catch up, but I’m not sure how good my chances are.

Anyway, the good news from the point of view of you guys is that none of this is going to affect the release of book #3, A Judgement of Powers – all the work for that was completed a while ago and it’s lined up for its release on November 4th, 2025.

Next week’s post, as mentioned, is going to be on the German release of Inheritance of Magic.  After that we’re back into worldbuilding articles – the first will be a general one on measurements of strength in drucraft (skill, capacity, affinities) followed by a couple of articles on one of the topics you guys voted on earlier in the year, Essentia Capacity.