Hello all, another writing update, but a very positive one, as *gasp* the first draft of In His Darkened Halls is FINALLY FINISHED.

*Trumpets*

Finally! It’s clocked in at just under 300,000 words after the final chapter had me tearing my hair out at 3am several days straight post-numerous rewrites.

While I’m aware this is only a 1st draft, I’m immensely pleased to have hit this milestone, as this is a book that has nearly broken me several times as a writer, and has been sat with me through some of the most difficult and trying periods of my life. I’ve got one hell of a mountain left to climb with it before it can have eyes on it, let alone be published, and I am absolutely dreading the redrafting, but for the first time since I first put pen to paper on this book back in 2016, I’m actually optimistic (I spent over a year writing it almost exclusively on my phone – it wasn’t fun).

It’s way too early for me to be putting out potential release dates etc, and I don’t want to set any deadlines to myself that I might miss and disappoint anyone waiting on it, but I’ll be keeping you all informed of progress on the redraft and editing process, and when you can expect to see the cover.

In the meantime, whilst taking a much, much-needed break from In His Darkened Halls, I’ve been working on a novella I began at the end of April that was intended to be a short story of 5000ish words. Currently, it’s at 15,100, so about 50% done of the first draft of what will be called Horns of the Hunter – the tale of the gods’ Luw and Cu Náith’s tragic and bitter feud. While I’m not putting too much pressure on myself at the moment in terms of word count, I’m hoping to have this done in the next month or so and will be looking at putting this out before the year is over