The new novel is short by Jones's standards, clocking in at 100,000 words or so. Jones has written the novel in just a few months, driven by her early success on Patreon. Originally, it seems that her plan had been to get straight into completing the partially-finished fifth Sword of Shadows novel, Endlords, but upon attempting that she found that her writing skills needed some honing before returning to her fantasy series. This is the project she undertook to do just that.
It remains to be seen if Tor or another publisher will pick up the new novel. But this is encouraging news given that Jones (who has suffered a major relationship crisis and a series bereavement during the past few years) had not written much that she was happy with in over half a decade, and her experiment with both Patreon and this new novel seem to have succeeded in recharging the creative batteries. In addition, Jones notes on her Patreon that writing the new book has already provided insights on how to complete Endlords, such as abandoning her previous strict practice of writing in chronological order in order to skip "difficult" chapters and double back to finish them later, rather than being simply logjammed for weeks on end on single chapters, which was apparently a major problem on Endlords.
Hopefully we'll see this new novel in 2018 and Endlords in the not-too-distant future.
ETA: Julie drops by in the comments to confirm that Endlords will be the penultimate book in the series.
3 comments:
That's awesome news! ��
Is it known whether Endlords is going to be the final novel in the Sword of Shadows series?
Thank you. ENDLORDS will be be the fifth in a six book series.
Great to hear from you here, Ms. Jones!
Thanks for the information. :)
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