Yeah, I wish I was here to announce a release date, but I’m not quite there. I finished the first draft back in September, and got it out to a couple of alpha readers. Now it is off with my editor and he’s busily churning away on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So, the big question is, when will Master finally be ready? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I wanted it to be before the end of the year, but there’s so much left to do after I get the edit back, it will probably be available for you to read in the first few months of 2023. The book clocks in at over 185,000 words, or another 20,000 words than Journeyman. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I still have the cover to finalize, the blurb to write, text to format. There’s lots of things to do to get a book ready for publication. But we are close!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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