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I just finished writing the first draft of Infestation.  Pre-editing it came in at around 105K words.  I usually add several thousand more during the editing process, and in the case of this particular book, I may be adding more than usual due to some rather intense events in the last four chapters.

I’ll start work on the editing either tonight or tomorrow, and then I’ll be publishing it once it’s finished.

I have two more chapters to write in Infestation before I’m finished with it.  I wasn’t really sure if there’d be any more books between this one and Travelers, but there will definitely be at least one more.  I’ve got a few loose ends from this one I’ll need to tie up in the next one, and then when I reach the end of that one I’ll figure out how things are going to go from there.

I’ve been having a great time writing the big battle in Infestation.  I just finished chapter 14, which is the big lead up to the battle.  15 will be the ground battle and 16 will be the aftermath and conclusion.  The next book will be dealing with things that will be left open in this one, and then, like I said, we’ll see where it goes from there.

The About the Author page up to this point has simply contained the same text that was in the books.  I’ve now updated it with a far more detailed and personal write up about myself.  So for anyone who’s interested in learning more about me, there ya go. 🙂

So I was writing chapter 11 of Infestation today.  Well, yesterday and today now I suppose since it’s three in the morning now and I just finished the almost eight-thousand word chapter.  I had something happen in it that was only going to be a relatively minor thing, but as I wrote, it actually turned into a major thing that took up the entire chapter and will continue on into the next.

Some people plan out their entire books ahead of time.  I never have, and that’s exactly the reason why.  When you write organically, the story practically writes itself.  All you have to do is to press the keys to make it happen.  If I’d have planned out my book ahead of time, I’d have limited this to a rather small part of one chapter, but instead it turned into this major thing with aspects of morality, mercy, revenge and other story elements that really ended up being something I’m quite proud of.

I don’t really have much else to say other than that.  The work on Infestation is progressing along at a normal pace.  I should have it finished in the next couple of weeks and then I can edit it and get it published.  I’m still having a dilemma about what do do next.  I feel like there’s still another book or two I could do before publishing the final book of the series, Travelers.  I’ll just have to see where the writing takes me.  I’m thinking at this point that there’ll be at least one more book before Travelers, because I need to wrap some things up with the rest of the series before I publish that one.  There might be more than one, but we’ll see what happens.

I was thinking over the weekend about Travelers and how I’d really love to write more about Jake and Lana, but Travelers was written to be the end of the series.  The only way I could write more would be to write a book before that detailing their life together before the events in the final book, which I may end up doing.  I’m thinking there may be one more of the regular part of the series after this one to wrap things up with that part of the storyline, and then I’ll either end it with Travelers or write that other lead in book first and then publish Travelers after.

Then again, I may end the regular series with this book and wrap things up for this part of it in an Epilogue.  I kind of want to end the series so I can move on to other things, but I want to do it right.  Travelers came out awesome, but getting to Travelers is leaving me with some questions about how I want to proceed.

Oh well, I guess I’ll make that decision when the time comes.  I just finished chapter 9 of Infestation after a weekend where I felt like I just couldn’t get enough sleep.  Yeah, it was one of those weekends.  What a waste. 😛

I did up the cover for Infestation yesterday and I’ve started work on the book itself this morning.  It starts out a few weeks after the end of Conspiracy, because I didn’t see any point in going through the whole thing with the hybrids waking up as humans and what not.  They were never intended to be actual characters anyway, so jumping ahead moves the story along in a better way than if I’d have become mired down in all of that stuff.

Anyway, that’s it for now.  Time to get back to work.