*rubs face* At least I’m well enough to work and Ep 31 of Crystal Blade will be published tomorrow on schedule. Huzzah for that.

Now that I’m getting closer to the end of the book I need to finish the detailed outline of High Tide so that I can get started on that ASAP once Crystal Blade is done. I know the main triad (human with a Dryad mom, satyr, and mer), I know the general arc of the book and what they’re trying to achieve, but I need to break it down chapter by chapter so that 1) I get a better idea of the plot beats, and 2) I can put chapters up on Kindle Vella as I write so that people can read along if they like. (looking at you, Peter).

If I can get High Tide and Hurricane Warning knocked out this year that means I’ll have two finished series under my belt. That will leave me with Hidden Empire (open ended), Two Thrones (four more books), Paladins of Crystal (three more books), and Pacifica Rising (five more books, although Degree of Resistance really reads like more like a Melanie book than a Nicola book because it goes so heavy on worldbuilding and tech. I’m not sure of how I want to proceed on that. I may republish Degree as “Melanie Fletcher writing as Nicola M. Cameron” and write the rest of the books as Melanie books).

After that, who knows? I can keep writing books in the Hidden Empire universe as long as I like, I could do at least two additional series and a standalone in the Paladins of Crystal universe, and I have a MF partial set in the Olympic Cove universe with Hephaestus and a female blacksmith. I could literally write until I drop dead over the keyboard, which is something.