Volume 4 Afterword
Hello again everyone,
First, today was a double chapter, and yesterday's chapter was the length of two chapters in one, so the next chapter will no be released until Tuesday. While this may be disappointing, I thought it was better to have 263 follow 262 immediately.
Your journey continues on empire
Now, onto my thoughts for Volume 4.
You may have noticed that several plot threads were not exactly wrapped up and that there is still a lot for Fang to accomplish with his new clan, even more than normal for this series. The reason for this is that Volumes 4 and 5 were originally planned out as a single book. Where we are at now was supposed to be about 60% of the way through Volume 4, but Volume 4 is already at 170k words though. I knew that completing it would push it to 300k words or beyond, so I decided to go ahead and break it here. This also gives me more space to let the next steps in Fang's plans breath. Quite frankly, he still has a lot to get done.
So, yes, a lot of plot threads won't be wrapped up until Volume 5, but I hope that recent events have felt like a suitable conclusion to Volume 4.
Unfortunately, I do not yet have a temporary book cover for Volume 5 yet. I've tried, but forcing AI to generate the cover I want wasn't working. I'll have to work on it in the coming days.
In any case, thank you for your support, and I'll see you Tuesday for the start of Volume 5.
G. Tolley