One of my readers asked a few questions. I responded via e-mail and later through the chat on my website (she was the first to ever use it…. whoot!), however I thought I should update everyone else about what’s up.

Her first question was the name. I really delayed answering this because I only have a very tentative title. Right now its “An Exchange of Hostages” but that may change. Then she asked when I was going to release the 4th book (not including the Omnibus).

“Believe it or not, Covid hasn’t really been good for my writing.  Or the rest of the world, of course.  My job is defined (by my employer) as essential so I go to work.  It’s medical adjacent.  Meaning, I evaluate and test medical equipment.  My family, including my two seven-year-olds, are at home all the time and while I love them, the screaming, playing and fighting aren’t great for writing.
Okay, enough of the excuses.  How far am I?  About halfway.  I slipped during the last release past December.  This made me pretty sad since December is a good time for releases.  People home from work with nothing to do read books.  Considering the issue of diminishing returns with sequels (people buy, read and review the sequels less and less as the series gets longer) this isn’t really good.  It’s not even that I write slowly.  The first book was written in a few months once I sat down and did it.  See excuse #1 above.  
So getting to the point.  I want it to be December but unless I get more quiet time, I think early next year is more realistic.  Sorry to ramble