2016 was a long, tough year. We released ten books. TEN! The Lily Quinn publishing schedule was punishing, but extremely rewarding. In 12 months, we doubled our total titles! We’re never doing that again, but I’m glad we managed it. I began the series with five books/months of lead time, and still barely managed to finish the final book on time. YEAH! We did it!

I spent November and December of 2016 recovering from the LQ schedule and taking care of a few smaller projects. Now it’s the second week of 2017 and time to outline what we hope to accomplish this year.

The series is done, but that doesn’t mean we’re done with the universe – AKA the Quinniverse. One of the little projects I finished was the outline for an extra one-off story about Stefano. Our favorite werewolf hunter has his own happy ending to chase down, after all. Aron finished the preliminary manuscript in November and one of my first jobs in 2017 will be to do the rewrites on that book. Not sure when it will be published, though.

We’re writing another RPG guide! After Aron finished the first Storytelling guide, we had requests for more details, especially on the crisis system. So he wrote the companion guide. We’re still getting requests for more and more information, so Aron’s working on a third book. We’ve taken a short game idea from concept, through the various levels of outline and development. Now, Aron’s writing out the full session outline and notes.

Once that’s done, the plan is to run the game he’s outlined, then write up how it did or didn’t follow the notes and what he did to accommodate for the issues that arose in game. If all goes according to plan – HA! – Aron should be able to run the game later this year and finish the book by about Christmas.

This third Storytelling guide is going to be loooong. Probably. We don’t know exactly how long until we run the game and see how the after-action report goes. That part might be short or double the length of the manuscript. We have no idea!

FINALLY! After over a year of being ignored, I’ll be opening up the dusty-ass digital box that contains the Hangman’s Cross manuscript and begin digging around inside to make some repairs. It’s a long manuscript and I have no idea how much time it will take to update and fix it, then get new beta reader feedback. Hangman’s Cross may not come out this year, but I’m crossing my fingers for an early winter release. As always, we’ll keep you updated.

Have we talked about this yet? I don’t remember anymore. Here’s the short version: Aron and I are going to write another Reforged book! This one will take place after the events of Hammer of Time, largely in the kingdom of Arcadia. It will be the story of Baliend, all grown up, and Maeve and Logan’s son, Kael.

I doubt we’ll manage to manuscript the book this year, but I hope to at least develop the Spear of Fire outline during 2017. Wish me luck – this list is starting to look a bit daunting.