Last week, I finished writing The Unknown Sea, the sixth book that I’ve written so far in the Sea Mage Cycle. Here are the stats:
- Total Chapters: 16
- Total Scenes: 53
- Total Words: 50,069
- Total Process Words: 457,791
- Total Writing Hours: 91.1
- Total Writing Days: 71
This one went a lot faster than I thought it would, though it took nearly a year before I finally buckled down and did it. I had the initial idea for it way back in December 2024, and finished the outline in January 2025. But I put it aside until July, then worked on it off and on for the next three or four months, not really making much measurable progress. So it wasn’t until I buckled down in May and really sat down to finish it that I finally pounded it all out.
This is the sixth book I’ve written in the Sea Mage Cycle, but it’s the second book chronologically, taking place about ten years after the events of The Widow’s Child. As with all the Sea Mage Cycle books, this is a standalone. I will probably write at least another two books in the series, just so that I can round out another four book omnibus edition. It’s going to be a little while, though, as I really want to pivot towards the Soulbound King, releasing the first three books within a year of each other. Also, I need to finish my two open sci-fi trilogies: The Outworld Trilogy and the Falconstar Trilogy.
So my next big WIP is going to be Lord of the Falconstar, which I plan to release in May 2026. The outline and rough AI draft are already finished, so ten months should be sufficient to get that done, even with my wife going back to full-time work in a couple of weeks. We’ll have to start going to bed early, so that she can get more sleep, and I can wake up at 4AM to write. In the meantime, I plan to send The Unknown Sea off to my editor, and format and publish that as soon as he gets back to me with the edits.
By the way, The Unknown Sea is already up for preorder! You can get it here:
