Book 3 is back from editing (Final Proof). Cover should be here by end of month. Book 4 just came out of dev edits and will go into line editing in the next few days. Cover isn’t likely until January sometime. Book 5 is in first-pass copyediting (by me) and will go into dev edits sometime December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That puts release dates for book 3 in late November\/Early December, book 4 late January 2026, and book 5 late March 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Books 6 and 7 are in final draft form and ready to start edits. I’d expect those to be fully edited and released by fall 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Book 8 is outlined with some early snippets. I’d expect a complete book with cover to come by the end of 2026 or early 2027. Book 8 will finish Phase One of the saga.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’ll start writing Phase Two in 2027. Maybe not right away, I have some other ideas I may want to get into for a spell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Book 3 is back from editing (Final Proof). Cover should be here by end of month. Book 4 just came out of dev edits and will go into line editing in the next few days. Cover isn’t likely until January sometime. Book 5 is in first-pass copyediting (by me) and will go into dev edits sometime December. That puts release dates for book 3 in late November\/Early December, book 4 late January 2026, and book 5 late March 2026. Books 6 and 7 are in final draft form and ready to start edits. I’d expect those to be fully edited and released by fall 2026. Book 8 is outlined with some early snippets. I’d expect a complete book with cover to come by the end of 2026 or early 2027. Book 8 will finish Phase One of the saga. I’ll start writing Phase Two in 2027. Maybe not right away, I have some other ideas I may want to get into for a spell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-booknews"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajhalyard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajhalyard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajhalyard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajhalyard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajhalyard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ajhalyard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176,"href":"https:\/\/ajhalyard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions\/176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajhalyard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajhalyard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajhalyard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}