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).