DRAGONSKULL: TALONS OF THE SORCERER

Now that SILENT ORDER: WRECK HAND is done, it’s time to start on my next project!

Specifically, DRAGONSKULL: TALONS OF THE SORCERER, the sixth book in the DRAGONSKULL epic fantasy series.

Naturally, I started the book in the waiting room of the car repair place. I’ve spent a LOT of time writing in the waiting rooms of various places. Like, when I was proof listening to the audiobook of GHOST IN THE PACT (as excellently narrated by Hollis McCarthy) back in October, I distinctly remember writing large chunks of the chapters set on Pyramid Isle waiting for my new car to get its first oil change back in early 2016. I wrote the last chapter of FROSTBORN: THE GORGON SPIRIT waiting in my car in a parking lot, and I wrote the scene in DRAGONSKULL: SWORD OF THE SQUIRE where Gareth and friends meet Azalmora for the first time while sitting in my car outside of a doctor’s office, since that was back towards the end of the Great Rona Freak-Out and you couldn’t go in the waiting room without a good reason.

I think the point is that one of the chief keys of longevity as a writer is flexibility. Or adaptability. Flexibility and adaptability are important. Like, to pick an example at random, if you’re one of those writers who can only write on an MS-DOS computer running WordPerfect from 1995 or so, you’ll never get anything done. 🙂

Anyway, that was a roundabout way of saying that DRAGONSKULL: TALONS OF THE SORCERER is underway! I’m 10,000 words into it, and it all goes well, the book will be out in January 2023.

-JM