Updated Chapter Posting and Publication Schedule

First off- the picture is me with my newest grandchild. A last minute 2 day trip with my wife and kids over their spring break along with the early delivery of our grandbaby and some mild complications (nothing that I think is really going to be a problem) have put me a bit behind.

She's totally worth it though.


Anyway what does this mean for my publishing plan.

1) I'm 40,000 words (13-20 chapters) behind on Welcome to the Multiverse with the original date for it to be completed being April 8th. Now it won't be before April 15th as things are going.

2) I have to adjust accordingly since I have to get it to the editor in April for publication in May.

My plan moving forward:

M-F are work days. I generally write on Saturdays and occasionally on Sundays but I don't want to be bound into those. (for the most part)

That said my current plan is:

M-F: 3 chapters of Welcome to the Multiverse (probably starting tomorrow)
M-W-F: 1 chapter of Crystal Core
Tu-Thu-Sat: 1 chapter of Dragon Sorcerer (with caveat about weekends)
Sat: 1 chapter of Welcome to the Multiverse although I really need to do 2 for the next couple weeks.

After that the plan is to shift to:

M-F: 2-3 chapters of She Who Befriends Monsters (Life in Exile 7)
The same thing for Crystal Core 3 and Dragon Sorcerer 5
M-W-F: 1 chapter of Welcome to the Multiverse 4

mostly because I don't want any of the stories to grow stale in my mind.

Planned completion dates:

She Who Befriends Monsters: May 15th, 2024
Crystal Core 3: May 25th, 2024
Dragon Sorcerer 5: June 9th, 2024

The only other schedule thing that you need to know about is our long planned trip to Disney from April 26th- May 4th. We take our kids one at a time (this is our 9th trip in 20+ years) because we could never afford to take them all at the same time.

Don't expect anything that week as running around the parks from sun-up to sun-down is probably going to do me in.

Then I'll be back at it on Monday May 6th.