One thing I keep being asked is about my plans for the Chandris series. So this is a short post with what I have lined up.

The first novel in the series is Crowchanger. Sylas is in his teens in this one, struggling with his abilities and trying to find his place in the Aerie hierarchy. Crowchanger was released in December 2013, and has had some really pleasing reviews.

The second book, Stormweaver. should be out end of March 2014 (ebook) and end of April/beginning of May for the paperback. I need to check the proofs of the paperback, so there will be a delay for the dead tree readers out there. This one starts about nine years after the conclusion of Crowchanger, so we have an adult Sylas who finds he can’t hide behind youth and inexperience any more, and needs to step up to the plate.

For now, I only have three novels planned, so the one I’m revising at the novel gives a bit of closure to Sylas’s story. If people like the series and want more I might pick it up again, maybe to focus on other characters for a while. But this one starts three months after the end of Stormweaver. It’s less of a boys’ own adventure, and more of a coming to terms with the implications of what happens at the end of book 2. No spoilers here, but I’ve left Sylas and his friends with quite a lot of loose threads to tidy up during book 3. No title for 3 yet. I did have a working title, but I’m coming to think that maybe it doesn’t fit as well as it might, so I’m revisiting.

In addition, I’m planning two novella-length pieces. One takes place about twenty years before Crowchanger, and has a young Jesely and the love of his life, Shamella. The characters in Crowchanger allude to these events, so I’m looking forward to actually writing it and showing everyone what happened. The second takes place between Crowchanger and Stormweaver, about a year before Stormweaver begins. Again, the characters in Stormweaver mention these events, so this will fill in the details.

I’ve got a few short stories lined up, too. One very short one is already available on here. Stab and Twist gives one of the scenes from Crowchanger from a different viewpoint, which was quite fun to write. There will almost certainly be one about Sylas coming to the Aerie and how the friendship with Casian came about. I’ve also got a story about Sylas set in Namopaia. It’s about what happens between Zynoa and Craie when Sylas starts to change, but it will probably be available as a link from the end of book 3. It has massive spoilers for the whole series, really, so I’d not want people to read it before reading the novels.

So there you go. Lots of Chandris stories in the pipeline. They may not all come out one after the other, though, as I’m feeling the need to flex my writing muscles on something new for a while. But I do love Chandris and its people, so I may not be able to resist.