Weekly Update - 5/28/25

Okay, we're getting there. I'm about halfway through the next QTSS chapter that'll go to its commission probably tomorrow, and then I'm going to bang through QT2:41 for Friday/Saturday. I have some of the outline of that sketched out, and as we get towards the end of Book 2, some of the chapters may take a little longer, but they may also get a little bigger as part of that. We'll see how things go. I'm still committed to having QT2 done before the end of the year, but it might end up being November or December, rather than the targeted October. I definitely want to have some of the more advanced stuff reviewed by the writer's room before I let it loose in the world, because this'll open a ton more space for people to play with. For those interested in minor timeline knowledge, B2's last date is currently going to take place on 11/20/21, and B3 is going to open probably mid-summer '22.

The plan's still the plan - a four-book series, with Book 4 being presented from Matty's (Andy's son) perspective, starting around his 18th birthday. Book 3 will adhere to the 2 chapters a month schedule, and the intermission-every-five-chapters structure introduced for B2, and should take around the same 2 1/2 years it took to do B2. The structure and format of B4 is still up in the air, as is whether or not that'll be the last of the QT books. Maybe I'll follow Roger Zelazny's model and give Matty his own full block, which would mean there would be a B5 and a B6, but we've got plenty of time to think that over. That's a future Dev problem. We'll see what people think when we get there, too, as the series has definitely done some evolution with the audience, so don't ever say your feedback doesn't have an impact! That's part of the fun of writing this way - I can adapt to things that work and things that don't.

I'm going to try and get a couple of things done for the next three to four days, so we'll see what happens. I'm part way into the next chapter of Have Totem, Will Travel and that's been fun enough that I should probably be able to cram it in there as well. One of the traps I've seen a lot of urban fantasy writers fall into is what I call 'backdrop allure,' which just means they love their setting so much, that's generally all we ever see their characters in. I want to avoid this by having the second Druid Gunslinger book be a travelogue, a road trip of a book, so we'll get out of the fog of San Francisco and see a bit of the bigger world for the Gunslinger.

Truth be told, I may duck out of the house Friday and go hide out in a restaurant or something with air conditioning, as we're apparently going to have a short heat spike in the area. And next weekend, I will be basically booked solid Friday through Sunday running Magic: The Gathering - Final Fantasy prerelease events at the Local Game and Card Shop (LGCS) nonstop, so I'll be completely incommunicado during those two days.

I'll also be out of the country for the first full week of July, the 6th-13th, heading over to Germany (Cologne/Frankfurt areas) to spend some time with some friends and collaborators, but I'll have the laptop with me, and while I'm in transit, I'll probably do some writing along the way, but it's possible that may be a very quiet week for me. Who knows. It's still a month and change away.

As we usually close, here's the upcoming public schedule for the next month or so: 5/31 -QT2:32, Neon Stonehenge 11; 6/7 - QTUM 6; 6/14, MG21, QT2:33; 6/21 - MG 22 (finale), QTPT22; 6/28 - QT: Selected Servicing 1.

Have a lay down and enjoy yourself a bit.