So as Q1 of the year is toast, the UK’s 5 minutes of summer are underway and I’ve again failed to make blogging a more regular thing (a four-monther this time, my apologies). I thought it was about time to drop another writing update on here.

My focus continues to be on completing the first draft of In His Darkened Halls. Since my last update, I’ve written 5 more chapters (all quite lengthy) and have moved into the beginning of the book’s final sequences. Some of these chapters contain some of the very first scenes I imagined for the story about 3 years ago before I first put pen to paper, so it’s pretty exciting to get writing them at last and see how they spill out on the page.

Currently the first draft is about 160,000 words, give or take a few hundred, so just over 70% (ish) done, so it is progressing and again, I’m sorry it’s taking so long, but it is getting written and it will be published when its ready. Right now I’m spending every free moment I have writing, my breaks in work are spent writing on my phone (Google Docs is a lifesaver when you’re away from your computer most of the week) and every spare minute I get to myself I’m adding in another sentence or two. Cover art is also currently in the works,  a handful of my grimdark compatriots were kind enough to share their thoughts on initial concepts a few months back that helped me decide on which direction to take, and I should have further word on this later in summer, as my cover artist is currently extremely busy with prior commitments.

So, as has become customary on these updates, I’ll leave you with my latest choice in writing music, Of Ash and Torment by Skeletonwitch, a great band if you’re into the whole blackened thrash metal niche thing like me.