DRAGONSKULL progress updates
It’s the end of the week, and I’m 33,000 words into DRAGONSKULL: CURSE OF THE ORCS.
I’m also 2,000 words into CLOAK OF SPEARS.
If all goes well, I would like to publish CURSE OF THE ORCS in June and SPEARS in July.
A few people asked when I want to do another SILENT ORDER book. I would like to, and it’s one of my writing goals for 2022.
That said, SILENT ORDER doesn’t sell as well as my other series. Like, CLOAK OF SHARDS has been out for ten days, and it that time, it has sold 77% more than SILENT ORDER: ROYAL HAND did in its entire first month. For that matter, in April the FROSTBORN series has sold 3.65 times as many copies as SILENT ORDER.
That sounds mercenary, I know, but one of the fundamentals of being a writer is giving your audience what they want, and the numbers show that a lot more people want more DRAGONSKULL and CLOAK MAGE than SILENT ORDER.
But, to be fair, I haven’t done any advertising on SILENT ORDER since September 2021, and maybe it’s time for a cover redesign – perhaps with spaceships instead of characters. So perhaps I’ll try some SILENT ORDER ads in May and see how they perform. I would love to be able to continue SILENT ORDER, so we’ll see how things work out.
-JM
Personally I love all your work you are one of the few authors I can honestly say crafts an excellent story no matter what genre he turns his muse to. Having said that I read your comment about more Silent Order books and while I agree it’s not what a lot of authors write for science fiction that is exactly what makes it sooo good, it’s not the same thing as everyone else is writing. I would like to see a new book in that story as soon as you get a chance to write one or even a new science fiction story would be met with whole hearted delight on my part. Another Ghost-Mage crossover would be heaven also.
Thanks! Glad you enjoy SILENT ORDER. Gonna run some ads on SILENT ORDER for April, so we’ll see how it goes.