Update 5/20/24

Everyone tells me I apologize too much. It's just a gut reaction from how I was raised or something. So this isn't an apology but an update.

1) I'm way behind on Crystal Core 3. I'm still gonna get it done in time... but it's gonna be a struggle getting the last few chapters done in time for Dutch to edit them before it has to be uploaded to Amazon. I'm trying though. The story has about 49,000 more words for me to write (give or take)

2) I'm behind because vacation threw me off, then there was a bunch of stuff like my parents coming for a last minute trip and staying at our house. I'm not apologizing for spending time with them- and I know that none of you would want me to, but I am trying to explain.

3) I'm already 1 chapter behind today because a family member from my wife's side was on the phone with us incessantly. She is bi-polar and having a manic episode and her husband is at his wits end. They're 7 hours away so we can't just hop in the car and be there especially with our work and other obligations. I am really aiming to catch up today and make sure I have 4 chapters with between 9-10,000 words today total. Right now I'm at like 5,400 (including the part I haven't posted yet).

4) Being behind means I can't spare as much time for chapters from other series. I will try, but no promises. If all goes well this week, I'll be done with Crystal Core three on Saturday or Sunday.

5) Next week, I will be posting chapters from Resistance (WtMV 4) and Dragon Sorcerer 5 fairly equally. I would like to do Life in Exile chapters but I fell like that would slow me down overall.

6) After that I'll switch to finishing up Resistance as my primary focus for 2 weeks or so - enabling me to finish it up on June 17th. I will still post some chapters from Dragon Sorcerer 5.

7) June 18th-21st, I'll be taking a short trip with the wife for our 31st anniversary. I wanted to go hiking at one of our favorite placed an hour away, and stay at the lodge, but she has been wanting to go to this hotel that is the setting of her favorite movie- Somewhere in Time- which happens to be an 8+ hour drive. But we do all kinds of things to keep our wives happy.

8) When I get back I'll be focused primarily on Dragon Sorcerer 5. With any luck I'll have that done by around July 5th. As soon as edits are done on it, I'll release it then.

9) I will have to then switch to CC 4 as my primary- but people will want chapters of DS 6 and WtMV 5. I'll aim to get CC 4 finished up by the first week of August.

10) Then FINALLY- Life in Exile 7 will be in the clear and I can finish it in August while still producing a couple chapters a week from the other stories. First week of September at the latest.

11) Then while continuing chapters of CC 5, WtMV 5, and DS 6, I will need to write Village of the Damned 1 in September because it's supposed to be recorded in October for a simultaneous release in January.

12) Then I'll have to finish WtMV 5 and DS 6 for editing and narrating deadlines- ugh...

If you've read this far then you have more patience than I do. I'm trying to break it down into manageable chunks, but the truth is that to meet my October deadlines, I really need to have a productive couple of months in June and July (and the rest of May)

So fingers crossed for me.

Oh and last thing, I'm having the paperbacks of Welcome to the Multiverse done properly. Book 3 is done, but still waiting on the formatter for books 1 and 2.