Yesterday I started on the third book of the Ambria series. Today I ended with 3658 words written for the book, which isn't as dramatic a start as the first and second book. Part of the reason for that is that while I'm working on the beginning of Ambria III, I'm cleaning up the end of The River Runs Uphill: Ambria II. The same thing happened with the start of Ambria II, where I had to go back and clean and change material in The Darkest Autumn: Ambria I to make the books work together.

Once things are in place, the words will fly faster and faster. Hopefully, I'll get down 5000 words tomorrow.

Another thing that held me up this weekend was getting the formatting right for the ebooks. As I'm not using a standard tool like Scrivener I have to adjust things on my own. I like doing it, so while it's a diversion from writing, at least it's a pleasant one.

One last thing: tomorrow my cover designer will be getting back to me with an update on the covers. The Darkest Autumn: Ambria I will be lightened and The River Runs Uphill: Ambria II will hopefully be finished enough that I can actually list the book on my site.