Now closing out the week at 54,000 words of CLOAK OF WORLDS, which puts me on Chapter 11 of 28.

I really appreciate how many of you are looking forward to this book and have been following along with the series, because I gotta say these books just keep getting weirder and weirder.

Like, ten years ago when I started writing Nadia, I thought I was writing a standard urban fantasy with Nadia as the femme fatal thief and Riordan as the mysterious but brooding assassin. They would rob banks and fight wizard assassins and stuff, maybe some werewolves.

Now ten years and twenty-four books later, we’ve got clone soldiers, cyborg wizards, anti-dragon battle mechs, fire giant main battle tanks, reform-minded Elven nobles, and dragon pop stars. Among other things. And we even went to Mars in one book!

I am also 4,500 words into BLADE OF SHADOWS, which will be the next main project once CLOAK OF WORLDS is done.

-JM