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Hello readers!

Brief update on Book 3's conclusion. As I posted earlier, it's done. The final chapters are being reviewed now.

Book 3's final chapter will be Chapter 141, which ends with June 25, 1983. Book 4's first chapter will pick up the next day, June 26.

Book 3 is hovering right at 550,000 words. I'm still a little surprised that it came out so high, and am hoping that Book 4 will slim down slightly, but we'll see. Right now it's not trending that way, but that's because it's been a very busy summer thus far.

At this point, I fully expect Book 3 to continue posting on the same M/W/F cadence and for Book 4 to pick up posting immediately upon the conclusion of Book 3. For those who are concerned, there is no particular cliffhanger at the end of Book 3.

As always, thank you for reading! Also as always, I welcome comments, questions, thoughts, suggestions, and everything else.

Hello readers!

I usually don't blog when little corrections get made, but Chapter 121 picked up a small but noteworthy correction just for the sake of consistency, with the school announcements having a bland 'A great time was had by all!' message about Prom. I realized this morning that there should have been some official acknowledgment of things one way or the other, and that fit the bill.

One minor dialogue tag mistake reported by a reader was also fixed.

As always, thanks for reading!

Hi everyone:

Somehow (almost certainly an error on my part somewhere) my Chapter 115 post included Chapter 105's text. It's been updated and the correct chapter is now posted.

Sorry for the inconvenience, and thank you for reading!

Chapter 110 had several 'who's in, who's out' glitches, now fixed. Chapter 109 had a minor glitch concerning which events Angie was competing in.

All are queued for repost now. None of them affect the story materially, but it'll help things read more correctly.

Thank you to several astute readers who pointed out one or more of these glitches. I appreciate it!

Hello everyone!

I completed the last bit of Book 3 last night. My laptop crashed at an unfortunate time and cost me an hour of recovery time, but all is well.

Book 3 is currently 142 chapters and 551,000 words or so. It's possible that the chapter count might change (chapters sometimes merge or split based on editing), and the word count will certainly change.

Looking 'behind the curtain', I just posted chapter 103. Chapters up to 108 are done. 109-120 are at some stage of editing, with my team of editors working on parts of them.

The remaining chapters are unedited so far. I'll edit them before my editors take a look.

Overall, that means we have 39 chapters to go, which puts the end of Book 3's posting in October if my calendar math is right.

I intend to go right into writing Book 4, and my plan remains to pick up immediately with posting Book 4 when Book 3 finishes.

Thanks to everyone! Expect some more fireworks of various sizes in Book 3, and more in Book 4. Many important things happen in Book 4, including (but definitely not limited to) many major characters turning eighteen).