I'm about fifty pages into the first draft of book 5, The God Makers. It's a follow-up to The Eighth Hell, so while I'm structuring it so you don't have to read The Eighth Hell first, be warned that if you read The God Makers first, there are a ton of spoilers for The Eighth Hell. In addition to facing their external enemies, the sisters, still suffering PTSD from their experiences in The Eighth Hell, must battle themselves over their perceived failures on that adventure. I'm very excited about two new characters in The God Makers, one of whom is the antagonist - I'm having a lot of fun writing him - and one of whom whose category is a bit more nebulous. COVID-19 has negatively impacted my finances, so it's very difficult for me to give you a timetable, and I don't want to make you a promise unless I'm certain I can keep it, but my tentative estimate is to have this one complete either at the end of this year or the start of the next.
I'm also writing another book that does not take place in the Chosenverse. It's set in our present-day world in the fictional town of Nighshade, which has a large Pagan population. Dr. Alexis O'Conner is an anthropology professor and Wiccan priestess who consults for the police on cases with an occult or Pagan aspect to them. Her best friend, Honor MacGregor, is a private investigator. They meet Ethan Malone. Ethan and Honor are both devotees of the Morrigan, Irish goddess of war and fate, death and change. Alexis thinks they aren't just devotees of the goddess, but her actual children. Ethan and Honor are drawn to each other, yet hesitant, still bearing wounds from their pasts. And a series of religiously motivated crimes rock Nightshade, escalating to murder. Tensions between the Pagan and Christian communities in Nightshade are wound to the breaking point, and the murder begins stalking Alexis, then Honor. Right now it's titled Tuatha de Morrigan, but that phrase doesn't exactly roll off the tongue, and I'm pretty sure it's not linguistically correct. I'm about 150 pages into that first draft. I'm not really sure what genre it is - it has elements of a detective/crime story, romance, and paranormal. I have no idea when I'll have that ready to go. Since COVID-19 has thoroughly screwed up my finances and I have to have it edited, covers made, and so on, and I want The God Makers out as soon as possible, I can't even estimate when Tuatha de Morrigan would be ready.
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