I GET TO WRITE MORE BOOKS!

I GET TO WRITE MORE BOOKS!

Actually, I suppose I would be writing more books no matter what. Let me rephrase that:

I’M GETTING PAID TO WRITE MORE BOOKS!

I’M GETTING PAID TO WRITE MORE BOOKS!

The official deal announcement at Publishers’ Marketplace is as brief as it is sweet:

I can shed a little more light on what I’ve got planned through a hypothetical Q&A. Or a real Q&A with a hypothetical interrogator. You get the idea…

Are you writing another trilogy? Not yet. Each of these books will stand alone.

Why aren’t you writing another trilogy??? I want to explore a lot more of the world I’ve created, and I want to try my hand at a shorter form.

I WANT ANOTHER TRILOGY. Sorry. Also, that wasn’t a question.

Isn’t calling a 175K-word novel “short” sort of ridiculous? Not if you’re comparing it to…