A non-update update! (May 2026)
ETA: Sorry I don’t have a concrete update yet! I’ve been keeping my head down and mostly offline while working. FWIW, the book is still coming and it’s about twice the length of A Heart of Blood and Ashes. I hope to have more news soon (which might also include changes to the length of the trilogy if my publisher ends up having to cut the book in two, because it’s really too long for a mass market release … and it doesn’t help that since AHoBaA came out, the mass market format pretty much died. But we’ll deal with that issue when we come to it.) I am so sorry that it’s taking so long and that I don’t have a firm date yet. But I am alive, the book is definitely coming, but I am always hesitant about giving any kind of date because I’m always wrong. But I am closing in on the finish line. Hopefully my next update will be a release date!
Hi all! I’d hoped this would be a triumphant “I have a date for ADoS&S!” post, but it’s not. I had a trip at the end of June scheduled since last year, and I’d also hoped that I’d have everything finished and turned in before I went, but I didn’t. I’d hoped to be able to work enough that when I was gone that I’d be done when I got back, but that didn’t happen either. And after moving last July, I’d hoped that the we’d be able to rent our house for more than a year…but I can’t. So I’m moving again and that’s taken over a lot of my time, and I expect it will continue doing so until the end of July/early August.
I’m offline a lot during this time (I have a lot of social media blocked so it isn’t a distraction from writing) so I’m sorry if I’ve missed any messages. I hope to have more of an update as soon as I get everything settled here. In the meantime, here’s a picture of a (not a baby anymore, but always a baby to me) goat “helping” me put things in the moving container. Also, if you have to move a lot of paperbacks, especially, this is my favorite way of moving them — paper bags with handles, double bagged (if you fill up the bags), and it’s so much easier to haul them around than boxes of books are.
Until next month,
Milla <3
