Today, at about 2pm in my favourite cafe, I finally completed book eight, The Silent Guard! Book two of the third trilogy, The Southern Star.

Now I suppose it’s on to book nine, which doesn’t have a title yet. I think I’ll finish the short story I’m on first, though. And I just got the substantive edits for book five, The Shadowed Throne, so there’s that.

Ah well, in any case, that’s book eight in the can. It clocked in at 199 pages and about 105,000 words, in case you’re curious. And, as always, the title is subject to possible change – assuming I get to the point of selling it!