I don’t want to jinx it, but I also don’t want to go another month without posting a progress update since there’s a history of my posting progress updates and then another whole year goes by without any progress that’s visible to anyone but me.

I have managed to work steadily on The Vale of Silence (aka Book Three) since the end of last summer. Since there have been difficult “real life” challenges all throughout that time and I have been able to maintain a version of “writing life,” that mi...