I got swamped with work starting around the middle of June. I did not write one word for Book 3 for two months. Thankfully, the big project I was working on went out the door two weeks ago. The next day I headed north for a two and a half week vacation at a cabin in Vermont overlooking Lake Champlain.
What a setting! Better it is peaceful and quiet and a perfect place to write. I filled in a lot of holes in the story. I have roughly seventeen chapters of the first draft complete. My editor has started his work too. I expect the final story to run around 500 pages in MS Word and 22 or 23 chapters.
My aim now is to begin posting Book 3 sometime in October or early November, assuming I can keep up my productivity.
Doug Fox